Just How Big Is Collin County's Boom? Curious Texas Investigates

It seems that every time you blink, a new development is popping up in Collin County.The cities north of Dallas are booming, with companies and new residents moving in droves to Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Allen and elsewhere.Two readers have asked Curious Texas — an ongoing project of The Dallas Morning News in which you submit questions and our journalists track down answers — just how fast Collin County is growing.For example, which of the county’s cities will be most populous by 2050? And will the county ever be completely built out?As a relative newcomer to Collin County myself, I decided to dig into these questions. I’ve been covering the area for several weeks now and wondered the same things when I first got on the beat.  Continue reading...