Prestonwood
Baptist Church
Plano,
Texas
Since its founding in 1979, Prestonwood
Baptist Church has grown until it is one of the largest churches
in the United States -- attracting people from 50 miles away.
This growth necessitated expansion into the retail center across
the street from its original main building. Then, when their membership
grew to 15,000, they relocated to a 138-acre site in the communities
of West Plano and Carrollton, Texas. The new site development
included a church and worship center totaling 350,000 gross square
feet, K-12 school, and a 180-unit retirement center.
DT&A performed a traffic impact
analysis for the new church campus site to address the church's
immediate needs and incorporate its vision for the future. The
firm developed an understanding of the vision, goals, and overall
objectives of the church and addressed the attendant transportation
issues. An undertaking of this magnitude required a trip generation
analysis, trip distribution and lane assignment assessment, a
traffic volume summary, and level-of-service analysis for the
five intersections and interchanges surrounding the site to determine
both current and future development needs. Tremendous growth is
expected during the next 20 years and DT&A is committed to providing
well-designed, progressive transportation, access, and parking
plans for the 21st Century and beyond.
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