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Plano to pay $7.5 million for Haggard Hall farm to create park

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Last Updated on Friday, 21 January 2011 08:31

Plano has agreed to pay descendants of one of the city's first families $7.5 million for a farm property that the city plans to make a park. Under the agreement, the city will take ownership of the land once the Haggard Hall family no longer lives on the farm and Plano's park plans take shape. The 51-acre park will be located at the northwest corner of Park Blvd. at Alma.

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