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Platinum Corridor, Dallas

human settlement in Dallas County, Texas, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7202350 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Platinum Corridor is a neighborhood and office submarket in the Dallas, Texas (USA) area. Beginning just north of Interstate 635 in north Dallas, the corridor hugs the Dallas North Tollway for 13.7 miles (22.0 km) north to State Highway 121 in Frisco. It runs through the cities of Dallas, Farmers Branch, Addison, Plano, and Frisco.

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References

Garrison, Trey. "Plotting 'Platinum Corridor'." Dallas Business Journal. March 28, 1997.

Further reading

Perez, Christine. Luster hasn't dulled on Platinum Corridor. Dallas Business Journal. Oct.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Platinum Corridor, Dallas” as human settlement in Dallas County, Texas, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Platinum, Corridor and Dallas.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Platinum, Corridor and Dallas providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Platinum Corridor, Dallas”, the useful work is to connect “human settlement in Dallas County, Texas, United States of America” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7202350. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Platinum Corridor, Dallas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.