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Addison is a bustling town that is alive with entrepreneurial spirit
where small start-ups to major corporations are headquartered
including Pizza Hut, Mary Kay Cosmetics, CompUSA and Palm Harbor
Homes. Within a compact urban center, Addison has a unique
combination of towering office buildings, upscale shopping,
beautifully landscaped residential communities, award-winning parks,
22 hotels and more than 170 restaurants, all within a five minute
drive from anywhere in town. Addison is located 13 miles north of
downtown Dallas, 16 miles northeast of the DFW airport, 11 miles
north of Love Field Airport and about a mile from The Dallas
Galleria. The Addison Airport is a convenient way to arrive for
charter and private planes. World-class shopping, excellent
restaurants, friendly people and beautiful spaces make Addison a fun
place to live, work, play and visit.
Interesting facts about Addison
- Addison covers a 4.3 square mile area just north of Dallas
- With more than 170 restaurants, every resident in Addison
could go out to eat and be seated at the same time
- Addison has 22 hotels with over 4000 rooms
- Addison's 118 acres of parks are some of the finest in Texas
- Every winter, the Addison landscaping crew plants 75,000 tulip
bulbs. The bulbs come straight from Holland, world famous
for tulips. Every spring, the Town of Addison is one
of the most beautiful gardens in the entire Dallas-Fort Worth
area!
- Addison has a population of only 15,830 residents, but its
business and daytime population typically reaches up to 100,000
a day
- About 55% of all Addison residents age 25+ have an associate's
degree, a bachelor's degree or a graduate degree
- The Cavanaugh Flight Museum, located in Addison, features
fully restored war birds from W.W.I and W.W.II
- Addison Airport is now the third largest general aviation
airport in the country and boasts a runway of 7,200 feet. With
774 based aircraft, the airport averages 366 operations per day.
- Addison has been used as a setting for numerous commercials
and for at least one feature film (Dr. T and the Women starring
Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, and Farah Fawcett.)
- Addison has one of the lowest tax rates in Texas
- Addison is nationally known for having one of the most
progressive fire sprinkler ordinances in the world. All
buildings over 500 square-feet - including residences - are
equipped with an approved fire sprinkler system when they are
constructed. Adopted in 1992, this life saving
prerequisite has become a model for many communities around the
Country.
- There are special events in Addison 29 weekends of every year!
- Addison is one of the few municipalities in the nation to have
a franchise agreement with a WISP to offer an affordable WiFi
services to its residents and businesses.
- The Town of Addison is located in an area once called Peters
Colony. It was settled as early as 1846 when Preston Witt built
a house on White Rock Creek. The area was not known as Addison
until 1902. Addison was named after Addison
Robertson, who served as the community's second
postmaster from 1908-1916. In 1902, the first industry was
introduced to Addison when a cotton gin was built on Addison
Road, near the railroad, by the Pistole brothers. It became the
Plano Cotton Oil Mill in 1904 and the Farmers Gin of Addison in
1919.
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