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Like the constantly changing patterns in a kaleidoscope, Richardson is in the midst of

updating its image, which will have beautiful results for both our businesses and residents.

Similar to the way the bits of colored glass blend to create unique images, so do the

options to live, work and play in our community.

Just look at how some of the key development projects reflect on the city—The Venue,

East Side, Brick Row and the redevelopment of Richardson Square and the Heights

Shopping Center. Significant announcements have further set the stage for solid growth

in Richardson’s future: the development of the 62-acre site for a “Class A” office park

at the President George Bush Turnpike and Custer Road by Hall Financial Group;

development of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas headquarters north of the Eisemann

Center; and the relocation of MetroPCS to Richardson.

The mission of the Chamber, through the involvement of its leaders and members, is t

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reinvigorate itself. This includes seeking continuous improvement in its programs and

services in a manner that consistently delivers tangible value to its members and the

community. Similar to the endless variety of designs you find when looking through the

kaleidoscope is the diverse assemblage of Chamber programs, geared toward the needs of

companies of all sizes.

We invite you to discover community profiles in this directory that share our rich heritage.

Highlighted are our nationally-recognized educational institutions, local healthcare

options, our vibrant arts community, parks and recreation offerings, and the role of the

Chamber.

Also, we encourage you to support the many businesses included in this publication. By

working with these companies you will be supporting local business owners and funding

the Richardson economy, ensuring beautiful results for years to come—and that reflects

positively on us all.

Sincerely,

Bill Sproull, President

David Anderson

Richardson Chamber of Commerce

2008 Chairman of the Board

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2008/2009 Chamber of Commerce Business Directory and Community Profile

Discover your community with a new perspective. The original photographs representing the profiles in this directory are shown with their kaleidoscopic counterparts.

Original pictures, from top to bottom: Huffhines home, built in the early 1800s; UTD’s Natural Science and Engineering Research Building; Richardson Regional Medical Center/Campbell Campus; Galatyn Park DART Station; Richardson Civic Center flags; artist’s palette; Cottonwood Park.

A publication of Richardson Living, LLC.

The Richardson Business Direc-tory and Community Profile is

published by Richardson Living, LLC for the Richardson Chamber of Commerce, Richardson, Texas.

Production ManagerErica Yaeger

Creative DirectorKitty Goddard

Publication Layout DesignElizabeth Gonzalez

Contributing WritersLauren Buell

Kitty GoddardPatti Otte

Deborah PopeErica Yaeger

PhotographersJulie Alexander

City of RichardsonDave Gantt

Advertising Account ExecutivesSusan Kassen

Sandra Moudy Bonnie Perry

No portion of this book may be reproduced without the expressed written consent of the publisher. Information con-tained within this publication was provided

to Richardson Living, LLC by the Richardson Chamber of Commerce. Richardson Liv-ing, LLC and the Richardson Chamber of

Commerce cannot and do not guarantee the preciseness of all information printed in this

directory. Neither party assumes responsibility or liability in any way for errors or omissions.

Richardson Living, LLCPO Box 833623

Richardson, TX 75083214.228.0710

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Richardson Chamber of Commerce411 Belle Grove Dr

Richardson, TX 75080972.792.2800

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Discover the Past .............. 7

Discover Knowledge .........9

Discover Healthcare......... 12

Discover Progress ............ 15

Discover the Chamber ..... 17

Discover the Arts ............21

Discover Activity ...........23

Alphabetical .........................25Categorical ...........................50Advertiser Index ..................70

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D I S C V E R DiscoverTHE PAST

As the City of Richardson continues to evolve, it is always beneficial to look at the past that was once our future. Discover a bit of history.

Prior to 1840, North Texas was home to Comanche, Wichita, and Caddo Native American nations. A natural spring sustained a Caddoan camp near the present-day intersection of Greenville Avenue and Spring Valley Road.

Westward expansion brought settlers in covered wagons to the Richardson area in the 1840s. The settlement came to be known as Breckinridge, honoring Kentucky-born U.S. Vice President John C. Breckinridge. Descendents of the earliest settlers trace their families back to Tennessee and Kentucky.

During the Civil War, Breckinridge consisted of a handful of buildings. When the Houston and Texas Central Railroad bypassed the town in 1873, residents moved northwest. William J. Wheeler donated railroad right-of-way and 101 acres near the intersection of Houston and Texas Central Railway tracks for the town site, but refused attempts to give the community his name. Wheeler built a public school for Richardson school children in 1880. When it burned down in 1900, classes moved to a four-room, two-story schoolhouse.

The city was chartered as Richardson in 1873, quite possibly to honor E. H. Richardson, a contractor responsible for building key railroad lines that invigorated the area. Richardson’s first post office was built the following year. In 1901, the city’s first newspaper, the Richardson Register, began publication and the weekly Richardson Echo had emerged by 1914.

The Interurban, an electric railway that ran north to Denison, south to Waco, southeast to Corsicana and west to Fort Worth began service in 1908. The railway provided residents of North Texas access to Dallas when the horse-drawn surrey was the most common mode of personal transportation. Although commuting is often considered a modern phenomenon, some residents of Richardson and other small cities rode the Interurban electric railroad to work in Dallas.

As Richardson grew, two red brick structures became emblematic of the town’s transition into a city and economic center. The eight-room brick schoolhouse that now houses the administrative offices of the Richardson Independent School District was built in 1914. In 1924, a segment of the town’s gravel road was replaced by the “red brick road” (Greenville Avenue) which led to more traffic and spurred population growth. That year, a tornado killed one Richardson resident, injured 13 and damaged many homes, but spared most businesses.

The town’s 400 residents elected Richardson’s first mayor in 1925. Waterworks and an artesian well, constructed with $50,000 in bond funds, were completed in 1926 and supplied water to every home in the city.

Many farming families lost land during the depression and rationing limited local access to goods such as sugar and soap, but local agriculture and livestock had helped Richardson residents avoid the food shortages faced by urban populations. Citizens State Bank of Richardson was one of the few state banks that weathered the depression without failing. Jobs dried up, wages fell and many women birthed their children at home with the help of a doctor—if they could afford one. But Richardson residents worked together to limit the impact of the depression. In a 1940 Dallas Morning News story, Mayor Tom Jackson said he knew of only three Richardson families on relief during the preceding 17 years.

Richardson’s growth slowed during World War II, and nearly every family had a relative away at war. Richardson annexed local communities in the 1940s, but remained focused on agriculture until the 1950s, when the businesses that presaged Richardson’s modern technology-based economy moved to the area. Collins Radio opened a Richardson office in 1951 and Texas Instruments (TI) opened offices south of Richardson in 1956. Central Expressway (U.S. Highway 75) connected Richardson to Dallas in 1954.

In 1950, Richardson had a population of about 1300, but the influx of more than 500,000 people into the Dallas

“What is past is prologue.” —William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

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area between 1940 and 1960 accelerated the rate of growth for all cities in north Texas. By 1956, Richardson had a police department and mail delivery services for its 5,000 residents.

In 1961, Texas Instruments founders established the Grad-uate Research Center of the Southwest, later called the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, to educate scien-tific talent locally and decrease TI’s dependence on national recruitment. The center was donated to the University of Texas in 1969. Now the University of Texas at Dallas, the facility conferred only graduate degrees until 1975 and ac-cepted only upper-division undergraduates until 1990.

Forty percent of the homes in Richardson were built be-tween 1970 and 1979. Richardson experienced another commercial and residential construction boom in the early 1980s. In 1990, Richardson’s population neared 75,000 and an influx of telecommunication firms around 1990 created what is now called the “Telecom Corridor® area.” Today the population has grown to around 98,000 and continues to increase.

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Richardson has long been known for providing qual-ity public education. In fact, Richardson Indepen-dent School District (RISD) is the largest, most di-

verse district in the state with the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) Recognized rating. School district placement within the city of Richardson is determined by county residence—with Dallas County residents feeding into RISD and Collin County residents into Plano Independent School District (PISD).

Both districts are highly acclaimed and operate on analo-gous academic calendars. At the start of the 2007-08 school year, some 34,000 students filled the classrooms of 55 cam-puses within RISD, and PISD’s enrollment at 68 campuses reached over 54,000 students. In all, Richardson residents attend 13 of PISD’s schools. RISD and PISD share bragging rights when it comes to the fact that approximately 90% of their high school graduates move on to further their educations.

A sound education starts long be-fore high school. Pre-K options exist in RISD and PISD for those meeting specific needs criteria. Full-day kindergarten programs are offered to students in both districts, as well.

These two award-winning school districts implement slight-ly different education plans. RISD runs on the traditional system with junior high schools for grades 7-8 and high schools for grades 9-12. PISD manages a five-phase educa-tional experience with middle schools for grades 6-8, high schools for grades 9-10 and senior highs for grades 11-12.

Magnet schools bring a unique quality to RISD. Along with core classes, these designated schools provide (via a lottery system) enhanced curriculums in areas such as technology, law and the culinary arts.

Families are ensured a high standard of education whether in the Richardson Independent School District or Plano Independent School District.

Advanced educationWhen it comes to higher education, Richardson’s convenient location places residents within minutes of some fine institutions: The University of Texas at Dallas, Richland College—the largest campus of the Dallas County Community College District, and the Spring Creek Campus of Collin College.

UT Dallas, which rests in the hub of Telecom Corridor®, offers undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate curriculums. The university’s diverse student body is composed of nearly 15,000 students, with student ages ranging from 16-87 years.

Students can select from more than 100 academic programs within UT Dallas’ seven schools: School of Arts and Humanities; School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences; School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences; Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science; School of General Studies; School of Management; and School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Dedicated in June 2007, the 192,000-square-foot Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory—with dazzling architecture—hosts some of the world’s most renowned researchers with its leading edge laboratories for selective engineering and scientific studies.

Bringing the university and community together, the university stages the “Sounds of Class” festival each year in late summer. Festivities include a children’s carnival, a concert by the Richardson Symphony Orchestra and a fabulous fireworks show.

For those preferring a community college environment, Dallas County Community College’s (DCCCD) Richland College branch strives to suit especially the educational needs of adults in Richardson and surrounding areas. This campus

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School District Contact Information

Richardson Independent

School Districtwww.risd.org469.593.0000

Plano Independent School Districtwww.pisd.edu469.752.8100

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” —Diogenes Laërtius, 3rd century

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opened its doors in 1972, and now serves nearly 15,000 college credit students and more than 7,000 continuing education students. The average age of Richland students is 28 years.

The Richland catalog presents a wide range of academic di-visions for those seeking associate degrees, certification pro-grams and continuing education. Training can be attained in a selection of fields from information technology to sci-ence and engineering or multimedia. Their newest training programs include the emerging areas of digital forensics, in-teractive simulation and gaming, as well as medical practice management.

Adding charm and utility, Richland’s campus features a lake, demonstration garden, a heritage flower garden and outdoor labyrinth.

Richardson residents need only head a few miles to the north for another nearby community college option—Col-lin College’s Spring Creek Campus. This campus opened in 1988, just three years after Collin College was founded. Spring Creek is paramount to Collin’s fine arts, with the Blackbox Theatre, John Anthony Theatre, Spring Creek Art Gallery and the Dance Repertory based there.

Class offerings run the gamut from fine arts to computer science and beyond. Students here can earn Associate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Science (A.S.) or Associate of Arts in Teaching (A.A.T.) degrees. Additionally, the campus offers continuing education and workforce development classes.

Area community colleges help supply Richardson with a vastly skilled labor force. To learn more about these two local campuses and UT Dallas, please spend time at each institu-tion’s website, call to request materials or plan a visit. u

Campus Contact InformationThe University of Texas at Dallas

www.utdallas.edu 972.883.2111

Richland College, Dallas County Community College District

www.richlandcollege.edu 972.238.6194

Collin Collegewww.ccccd.edu 972.881.5790

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DiscoverHEALTHCARE

A verdant oasis in the midst of the busy Metroplex, Richardson offers an impressive array of activities for those seeking a physically fit lifestyle. From its

high-quality recreational and fitness facilities to its premier parks, walking trails and outdoor venues, Richardson places a premium on healthy living.

The city’s commitment to a healthy citizenry extends to its exemplary medical facilities. In the next five years, northeast Dallas County and southwest Collin County are projected to experience a population explosion and Richardson is stra-tegically poised to meet the healthcare needs of this bur-geoning metropolis.

Spearheading many of the city’s medical advancements is Richardson Regional Medical Center, a community-owned hospital. For more than 30 years, Richardson Regional has been offering a broad scope of medical, surgical and behav-ioral healthcare services to our community. Richardson Re-gional is served by more than 700 staff physicians in a broad range of specialties.

Richardson Regional was established in 1966 after the Rich-ardson City Council formed the Richardson Hospital Au-thority. That same year, the hospital authority purchased Richardson General Hospital and transformed the 35-bed, for-profit hospital into a not-for-profit hospital serving the City of Richardson.

The hospital is still owned and operated by the Richardson Hospital Authority, a local government entity and political subdivision of the State of Texas. The hospital authority has no taxing powers. Instead of distributing profits to share-holders, Richardson Regional reinvests its revenue back into the community to improve the health of its citizens through improved technology and programs.

Richardson Regional was selected as the first health care recipient of the prestigious Texas Award for Performance Excellence in 2004. The award, patterned after the nation-ally renowned Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, is presented annually to select Texas organizations excelling

in performance, quality and customer satisfaction in day-to-day operations.

Today, Richardson Regional has two campuses serving Rich-ardson and its surrounding communities.

Campbell CampusRichardson Regional’s 18-acre primary campus includes the main hospital, two four-story medical plaza buildings and the Richardson Regional Cancer Center. In addition, the Richardson Regional Health Center and Medical Plaza III are conveniently located within a three-mile radius of the Campbell Campus.

The cancer center currently offers patients the latest inno-vative treatment options, including the Lance Armstrong Shaped Beam Surgery™ Program, a revolutionary, nonin-vasive treatment method that allows physicians to treat tu-mors with high-dose radiation while minimizing harm to surrounding healthy tissue.

The Center for Women’s Health, also located at the main campus, is dedicated exclusively to women’s health issues. From digital mammography to biopsies and bone density testing, the Center offers a continuum of care.

Bush/Renner Campus The 20.5-acre Richardson Regional complex located at Pres-ident George Bush Turnpike and Renner Road is designed to serve the fast-growing communities of Wylie, Sachse, Murphy and surrounding areas. More than 200,000 peo-ple live within a five-mile radius of the site. Phase I of the development commenced with the opening of a five-story, 100,000-square-foot physician pavilion which houses more than 25 physicians in a variety of specialties. This campus has attracted nearby relocations and expansions of day sur-gery centers and medical office condos.

In October 2008, Richardson Regional will make a $41 million healthcare investment by opening a new 47,000-square-foot outpatient hospital and relocating its compre-

“The greatest wealth is health.” —Virgil, 70-19, BC

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hensive cancer center to the campus. Both the hospital and the 50,000 square foot cancer center will be adjacent to the physician pavilion.

In July 2006 the Richardson City Council endorsed the hospital’s Bush/Renner expansion plans by awarding a $4 million economic development grant to support the proj-ects.

The outpatient hospital will include an emergency department, medical imaging, laboratory and other diagnostic services. The new comprehensive cancer center will be a joint effort between Richardson Regional and UT Southwestern Medical Center. It will bring an advanced level of cancer care to the region by providing medical, surgical and radiation oncology services, plus new therapies in drug research, genetic counseling, patient education and support services.

In addition to Richardson Regional’s outstanding medical facilities, Richardson is also home to the brand new 55,000-square-foot, 50-bed, state-of-the-art Reliant Rehabilitation Hospital North Texas, which offers the latest in rehabilitation technology for patients who have experienced significant physical disabilities due to various conditions such as head injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, certain orthopedic problems and neuromuscular diseases.

Several other first-class healthcare institutions are located in neighboring cities, such as the Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, Presbyterian Hospital of Plano, Medical Center of Plano and Medical City Dallas Hospital.

Whatever your healthcare needs, you’ll find that Richardson is a city devoted to health and wellness and superior medical care for all of its residents. u

Richardson Regional Medical Center401 W Campbell Rd Richardson 75080

972.498.4000 (main switchboard)

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Richardson Regional Bush/Renner Campus2821 E President George Bush Turnpike

Richardson 75082

Reliant Rehabilitation Hospital North Texas3351 Waterview Pkwy Richardson 75080

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