1. Custer Road widening

The city of Frisco is widening Custer Road from Stonebridge Drive to SH 121. The road runs between Frisco and McKinney and sees daily traffic to and from both cities.

To accommodate the growth in this area, the 3-mile project will widen the existing four-lane roadway to six lanes.

Construction on this project was 60 percent complete as of mid-July and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year between October and December, according to Frisco officials.

Heavy traffic is expected in this area until construction is complete. City staff is coordinating with the Texas Department of Transportation regarding closures, detours and traffic switches along Custer, FM 423 and US 380 during the road’s widening projects.

Timeline: January-December Cost: $9.17 million Funding sources: city of Frisco, Collin County

2. Laud Howell Parkway Construction

Design work on the widening and future alignment of Laud Howell Parkway will soon begin because of a fund allocation approved by McKinney City Council on July 19.

Council transferred $1 million from the city’s street construction fund balance to the capital improvement program. The funding will be used to initiate professional engineering design services for the roadway.

Design work is slated to take roughly 10 months, and city officials said it will be done in phases.

Construction is set to begin around the start of 2017, officials said.

The roadway will be one of the first major roadway improvements in the northwest sector of McKinney and city officials said it will help pave the way for future development in the area.

Right now, the only development under construction in the northwest sector that will immediately benefit from the roadway is the master-planned community of Trinity Falls, which is in phase two of construction.

Timeline: TBD Cost: TBD Funding sources: city of McKinney