Jeff Cheney

Former Mayor of Frisco 2017–2026. Real estate broker, developer, community builder, and passionate advocate for creating places people love to live. Texas Ex 🤘

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@BryanDFischer After hosting matches in 2026, North Texas knows how to run an event this size. Fair Park as the broadcast center would be a big win, and we hope to see matches in Frisco too. Hunt Sports Group will be a big part of making it happen.

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@UrbanCourtyard Pre-approved plan sets are one of the most practical tools a city has. A small builder can skip months of design review on an infill lot. The designs have to be good enough that neighbors actually want them, though, or the program stalls.

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@HowThingsWork_ Same lesson in a small business. Do the work yourself first so you know which parts repeat. Then you know what to automate and what to hire for. Automate a process you don't understand and you just make mistakes faster.

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@TXStockExchange @frost A Texas bank that goes back to 1868 moving its listing home is a real vote of confidence. North Texas already has the headquarters. Building the capital markets here too is the next step.

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I use AI the same way I use a spreadsheet. It helps dig through market data so the client conversation is grounded. The judgment call, and the relationship, still sit with the person across the table.

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@WSJ Booking is where AI agents hit the hard questions: payments, identity, and who's responsible when it gets it wrong. In my business AI builds the research and a person still handles the transaction.

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@jayparsons The build-vs-buy gap is the number I'd watch in North Texas too. When buying is cheaper than building, new starts slow. Renters have options right now, but projects canceled this year are supply that won't be there in a few years.

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@DallasTexasTV A third commercial airport changes the math for the north side of the region. Collin County gets flights without the drive to DFW or Love Field, and the land around the airport gets more interesting for employers.

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@drorpoleg That's where small firms have an advantage. A small team can rebuild how it does research and follow-up in weeks. A big organization has to get through layers of process first. The client relationship stays the same.

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@dallasnews Talent rankings are a good reminder that companies follow people now. DFW wins on scale and the number of employers. Keeping young talent here comes down to housing they can afford and places they actually want to spend time.

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@FreightWaves North Texas keeps adding pieces of the air mobility supply chain. Building drones here, not just testing them, means manufacturing and engineering jobs. Cities should plan now for where delivery and landing infrastructure goes.

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In Frisco, McKinney, Prosper, Celina and Van Alstyne there are roughly 3,700 active listings. Homes that closed in the last 30 days averaged about 96% of list. Buyers still have room to negotiate, and well-priced homes are still moving.

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@DallasBizNews After 18 years on council and as mayor, my advice: the most important votes pay off after you leave office. Roads, water and land use set up the next 20 years. Give the boring infrastructure decisions your full attention.

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@PGAChampionship Nearly a decade ago a lot of people had to believe in that open land: PGA of America, Omni, the city and a lot of partners. Next May all of North Texas gets to show the world what that bet turned into.

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McKinney just brought about 724 acres near its airport into the city as light industrial. Homes get the headlines in North Texas, but land for jobs is what keeps a region growing.

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@NewsLambert Worth watching in North Texas, where the big rental operators bought a lot of homes from 2020 to 2022. Every one they sell goes back on the market as entry-level resale, at a time when buyers there already have more options than they've had in years.

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@bobbyfijan @molzer @av_dcre @JohnJBlatchford The building is usually the easy part. When a city wants restaurants in an old downtown, the real work is behind the facade: alleys, utilities, venting and shared trash. Get that infrastructure right and full-service restaurants follow.

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@drorpoleg Agreed. Most of what a small business runs on day to day is research, drafting and follow-up, and last year's model handles that fine. The bigger win is getting your own process and data in order, so you can swap the tool a couple times a year without starting over.

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If more than 80% of the revenue is coming from models less than six months old, the tools are going to keep changing under us. For a small business I think the lesson is to build around your own process and your own data, not one tool, and expect to swap the tool a couple times a year. That's how we approach it in our real estate business.

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Creative destruction on steroids: More than 80% of Anthropic's revenue comes from models released in the previous six months.

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FleetPride: Irving to Plano. MUFG Capital Analytics: downtown Dallas to Irving. AT&T: downtown Dallas to Plano.

A lot of this year's HQ news is companies moving within North Texas, not into it. They pick the region first, then the spot closest to where their people live.

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Plano continues to attract corporate headquarters, with another company planning a move that could bring nearly 400 jobs to the city by 2031. https://t.co/nkYP0QM476

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@LoganMohtashami In North Texas a lot of new-home buyers are already getting below that through builder buydowns. Sub-7% matters most for resale sellers, who have been competing against those incentives all year.