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{{Short description|Business center in Richardson, Texas}}
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The '''Telecom Corridor''' is a technology business center in  [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]], [[Texas]], a northern suburb of [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], which contains over 25 million square feet (2.3 million square meters) of office space and accounts for over 130,000 jobs.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.telecomcorridor.com/site-selection/workforce-1|title = Workforce Information|access-date = January 19, 2016|archive-date = February 19, 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170219085608/http://www.telecomcorridor.com/site-selection/workforce-1|url-status = dead}}</ref> Located in the [[Dallas/Fort Worth]] area and home to the [[University of Texas at Dallas]], the Corridor is a strip about {{convert|6.5|mi|km}} long along [[U.S. Route 75 in Texas|U.S. Route 75]] (US&nbsp;75) (the [[Central Expressway (Dallas)|North Central Expressway]]), between [[President George Bush Turnpike]] and [[Interstate 635 (Texas)|Interstate 635]] (I-635) and is often considered an area of the [[Silicon Prairie]].  More than 5,700 companies, including 600 technology companies are headquartered in the area, including significant players such as [[AT&T Inc.|AT&T]], [[Alcatel-Lucent]], [[Ericsson]], [[Verizon]], [[Samsung]], [[Fujitsu]], [[Texas Instruments]], and [[MetroPCS]] (now part of T-Mobile). Some of these companies also have offices in [[Telecom Valley]] located in California. Although the Telecom Corridor was a booming area of Dallas's economy during the late 1990s, the [[dot-com bubble|dot-com bust]] of 2000 hit the region hard. However, it began recovering in 2004, and that recovery has since picked up momentum, gaining both the operations of many non-technology-related companies and many previously non-existent residential units designed in the [[New Urbanism|New Urbanist]] style.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&artnum=1&issue=20070129 | title=Took Time, But Finally Tech Jobs Are Rising | access-date=2007-01-31 | author=Reinhardt Krause | publisher=Investor's Business Daily |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070212084139/http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&artnum=1&issue=20070129 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-02-12}}</ref> The name "Telecom Corridor" is a registered trademark and may technically only be used to describe the area mentioned in this article.

== Telecom Corridor Genealogy Project ==
The [[Telecom Corridor Genealogy Project]] is a project to enable professionals in the Telcom Corridor to find out about their common history and thereby to enable them to network more easily.

== Transportation ==
=== Major highways ===
* {{jct|state=TX|I|635}}
* {{jct|state=TX|US|75|name1=[[Central Expressway (Dallas)|North Central Expressway]]}}
* [[President George Bush Turnpike]] (''toll'') (''frontage roads'': {{jct|state=TX|TX|190}})

=== Light rail ===
* '''[[Dallas Area Rapid Transit|DART]]''': {{DART R}}
** [[Spring Valley (DART station)]]
** [[Arapaho Center (DART station)]]
** [[Galatyn Park (DART station)]]
** [[Bush Turnpike (DART station)]]

== See also ==
* {{portal-inline|Texas}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.telecomcorridor.com/ Official  '''Telecom Corridor''' website]

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[[Category:Richardson, Texas]]
[[Category:Economy of Dallas]]
[[Category:High-technology business districts in the United States]]


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