DFW AF, Touch Grass, and Whole Foods in Frisco

Welcome back to Frisco FYI, the official newsletter of Lifestyle Frisco!

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Now, let’s get to the latest in Frisco events, hot headlines, and more! 👇

Top 5 Things to Do This Week

🎲 Texas Pinball Festival: The Texas Pinball Festival returns to Frisco's Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center, March 21-23. Enjoy over 400 pinball machines, classic video games, and other game room goodies on free play all weekend. No quarters needed!

🛍️ Fleastyle Market at The Star: Shop Fleastyle’s free outdoor market at The Star on Saturday, March 22. This pop-up event features a curated mix of fashion, jewelry, home décor, and other unique lifestyle goods vendors.

🎶 Live After 5: Enjoy FREE live music by emerging talent at Kaleidoscope Park’s weekly Live After 5 Series on Thursday nights. Kids can explore the elaborate playground while adults chill on the lawn.

🏀 Texas Legends and ⚽ FC Dallas: Two of our Frisco-based professional sports teams will play at home during spring break! Grab dinner beforehand, and make it a fun, family outing.

Fresh Start 2025 Art Awards Reception: The Visual Arts Guild of Frisco will showcase the work of talented local artists from the Frisco area this Saturday, March 22 at the Frisco Discovery Center.

Looking for additional things to do? Check out our events calendar.

Frisco Rumor Mill

The latest whispers and speculations about exciting local developments, from potential new biz openings to upcoming community projects and events everyone is talking about. Have a scoop? Send us a note.

• We’re now “DFW AF” — but it’s not what you think. The DFW Metroplex is getting a fun, new nickname to include Arlington and Frisco in the mix. Our Mayor even referred to "DFFW" recently to highlight Frisco’s growth and vibrant startup scene, the latter of which also prompted him to suggest we could be “the next Austin.” (Thoughts about that? Tell us!")

• 🛒🥑 Whole Foods is bringing its organic goodness to Frisco with a new location at The Mix! Get ready to fill your carts with fresh produce, prepared meals, gourmet treats, and best of all — possible Amazon Fresh delivery! If you’ve been around a minute, you may recall we expected Whole Foods ten years ago as part of the now-defunct Wade Park. If you missed our update on The Mix, check out “The Mix: Frisco’s Long-Awaited Answer to “The Hole on the Toll.”

• Pickle and Social is coming in 2025! Expected at Frisco Station, the venue will offer 7 indoor and 6 outdoor premier pickleball courts adjacent to the full-service restaurant, bar, and lounge. In addition, we’ll get to enjoy unique hangout spots like the Rooftop Bar & Terrace, private event spaces, the ACL Cornhole Yard with a live music stage, and a variety of lawn games. Here’s the thing: the last update we heard locally about this project was in 2024. We’ve reached out to ask for a better sense of when it will open, but meanwhile, they’ve added it to their list of new locations coming soon, so that’s encouraging!

• Our neighbor McKinney is getting a new mixed-use project along the US 380. Northgate, a walkable 146-acre development, will feature tons of retail space, including an anchor grocery store and a mix of restaurants, entertainment venues, fitness centers, boutique shopping, a hotel, multi-family residences, and office buildings — basically all the things…as per the trend of mixed-use developments in North Texas.

Do you have any thoughts to add about the news items above? Submit a letter to the editor, and we’ll publish your input in our next newsletter (let us know if you want to be anonymous).

Recommendation of the Week

🌿📱Have you touched grass today? If you’re an avid doomscroller, you’ve likely been told to “touch grass.” The popular internet slang term means participating in activities in the real world as opposed to online experiences.

Guess what? There's a new viral app called "Touch Grass" that makes you go outside and comply before you can unlock your social media apps. The app will ask you to select two apps that you find to be the most distracting or the most time-consuming, and the app will block them. The only way to unlock your apps is to take a picture of yourself outside literally touching grass and uploading it to the app.

Sounds like a fun way to help us reconnect with nature and curb the doomscrolling habit. Touch Grass became available in the App Store for iPhone users on Friday, March 14th. It’s free, though upgrading will cost $6 per month or $50 annually.

ICYMI

Last week we delivered a special edition newsletter dedicated entirely to SPRING BREAK in Frisco. Did you open it? If you got busy, no hard feelings; here’s another chance to catch its content. We’re a couple of days into Frisco ISD Spring Break now and guessing that some parents are like, “Good grief, how are we going to entertain these kids all week?!”

If that’s you, or you’re just generally looking for seasonal entertainment ideas, read our “Ultimate Guide to Spring Break in Frisco: Staycations, Road Trips, and Things to Do”

On this Day in History

March 18, 1995: After retiring from the NBA in October 1993 to pursue a baseball career, it was exactly 30 years ago today that Michael Jordan shocked the sports world with a two-word, faxed press release that said:

"I'm back."

The next day, on March 19, 1995, he played his first game back with the Chicago Bulls against the Indiana Pacers, wearing the number 45 instead of his iconic 23. Even though the Bulls lost that game, MJ quickly shook off the rust and led the team to the playoffs. The following season, he returned to championship form, leading the Bulls to a historic 72-10 record and the first of three straight NBA titles. 🏆🏆🏆 Check out the video, below.

Live the Lifestyle: This Week’s Featured Properties

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Where are you going this SUMMER? ☀️🏖️⛰️

Does your household like the beaches of 30A or the mountains of Tennessee? Tell us your favorite summer vacation spots, and we’ll share them in our “Ultimate Guide to Summer Travel” coming soon to Inboxes across Frisco.

Nicole Barron
Editor

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