Aerospace giant Boeing selects Plano for its global services HQ

Candace Carlisle, Dallas Business Journal , WFAA 6:43 AM. CDT April 06, 2017

PLANO -- Aerospace giant Boeing (NYSE: BA) has selected Plano's Legacy West to serve as the new headquarters for its global services division.

The company expects to be up and operational at the site in July.

"I am so excited an unbelievable American company, like Boeing, has chosen Legacy West for their divisional headquarters; it's an honor," Legacy West Master Developer Fehmi Karahan, told the Dallas Business Journal.

"Out of all the cities they could've gone to in the United States, we are very excited they chose us," said the president and CEO of The Karahan Cos.

The new headquarters for Boeing's global services division will sit on the top floor of one of Legacy West's office buildings.

An exact square footage and employee count have yet to be finalized, however, this office will have the top leadership of Boeing Global Services, including President and CEO Stan Deal.

The executive team for Boeing Global Services will serve about 20,000 employees throughout the world.

The central location in the United States will help assist in Boeing Global Services' plans for worldwide service, Deal said.

"We have a fixed focus on serving our customers worldwide, and this location assists in our mission of providing uncompromising service worldwide," he said, in a statement.

Last November, Boeing announced its standup global services division, which was formed to integrate the services and capabilities of the defense, space and commercial sectors into a single, customer-focused business.

By Boeing bringing its key executives of the newly formed organization to North Texas, this "opens up the world to Plano," said Mayor Harry LaRosiliere.

"It is their upper-level management with an exposure to an incredible array of companies from all over the world that will come and visit this location for business purposes," LaRosiliere told the DBJ. "It opens the gateway for us."

Boeing Global Services are expected to ask for incentives from the City of Plano, which could go before council on April 10 or April 24. The details of the incentive package were not immediately available on Wednesday.

Boeing joins a number of other corporate tenants at Plano's Legacy West, including Toyota North America, JP Morgan Chase, Liberty Mutual, FedEx Office and many other companies setting up a corporate home in Legacy West.

Legacy West has been built within less than four years. Karahan plans to hold a grand opening for the mixed-use development on June 2, 3 and 4.

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