If you have lived in Frisco for more than five years, you have watched a two-lane road become a three-lane highway and a cow pasture become a Costco. This summer is a different kind of milestone. The theme park the city argued about for the better part of two years is finally open, and the traffic doomsday your group chat predicted has, so far, not arrived.
That is not an accident. It is the summer you were promised in 2023, arriving mostly on schedule.
This is a neighbor's-eye view of what actually shifted in Frisco between Memorial Day and the Fourth, what to do with the kids on a Saturday that is not a park day, and what a couple of the new restaurants near Universal Parkway are like once the opening-week rush thins out.
