Celina didn't let 2022 pass by without making significant strides in city and community history.
A look back at Star Local Media's coverage of all things Celina this year revealed big moments for the city, both on the side of economic growth and development (ICYMI: Costco is coming to town, and the first major hospital in Celina is set to break ground next month), as well as big moments within the community (Celina High School saw state wins from cheer, marching band, digital animation student Dane Parsons, the Girls Soccer Team and the Girls Cross Country Team).
A national retailer is making its way to Celina in a move that will spark massive economic growth for the city.
The city of Celina on Friday confirmed that a Costco is coming to the city at the southwest corner of Ownsby Parkway and Preston Road.
Celina is one step closer to having a championship golf course.
On Tuesday, developers, business representatives and Celina city staff gathered at a spot off of County Road 9 to break ground on a 3,200-acre development that will include 7,000 single family homes, 4,100 multifamily units, 100 acres of commercial development, a 27-acre sports park, space for two future Celina ISD schools and an 18-hole golf course.
“Form follows function.”
It was a concept that Celina Police Chief John Cullison recalled from early on in his time with the city of Celina. City Manager Jason Laumer had brought up the idea during discussions, and for Cullison, it stuck.
Every member of Celina High School’s cheer team this year had one thing in common: none of them approached the mat this year with any assumptions.
The result: a huge trophy, a designation as Best in Crowd Leading and the title of Texas UIL’s 4A-D2 champions, the first ever spirit title for the Bobcats.
A Celina High School senior has made statewide waves with his digital animation.
Senior Dane Parsons was named the 2022 State Champion in the Division 1 Digital Animation category at the UIL Young Filmmakers State Festival.
This year's Celina marching band is no stranger to making history, and it did so once again on Wednesday night.
The band was named state champions for the 4A division of the State UIL marching contest Wednesday night.
The 2022-23 school year will be a special one for Celina ISD.
As school starts on Wednesday, Celina students and staff will walk the halls of Jerry and Linda Moore Middle School for the first time.
A Celina landmark will get its permanent spot in local history.
The city of Celina and Celina ISD on Thursday announced that much of the complex at Bobcat Field will be preserved and used as part of a linear park, thanks to an agreement that included a family with historic ties to Celina.
“Just think about it. All the lives that will be saved by what we’re doing today.”
With that remark from Denton County Judge Andy Eads, the city of Celina rang in the groundbreaking of its third fire station.
Celina will be getting a hospital at the corner of the Dallas North Tollway and FM 428.
On Wednesday, Methodist Health System announced that it will be building a $200 million hospital in Celina. The project, set to go on 46.7 acres of land at the southeast corner of the Dallas North Tollway and FM 428, will break ground later this year. The hospital, dubbed “Methodist Celina Medical Center,” is slated to open in early 2025.
The Celina community is getting a first look at the vision for the city’s first major hospital.
The agenda for Tuesday night’s Celina City Council meeting included a presentation from Methodist Hospital, which announced at the beginning of the year that it will be building its 13th hospital at the corner of Dallas Parkway and FM 428. (You can read the Celina Record’s coverage of the January 2022 announcement at this link).
The healthcare industry is inching its way to Celina.
According to Collin County deed records, Scottish Rite for Children purchased roughly 76 acres of land in Celina that will include about three-quarters of a mile of frontage on the Dallas North Tollway as well as east-west access via near Punk Carter Parkway and the Collin County Outer Loop.
When the Celina girls soccer team set foot on the pitch at Georgetown's Birkelbach Field for Wednesday's Class 4A state semifinal, it marked one year since the Lady Bobcats' historic 2021 season reached its end.
That came in a 1-0 loss to Midlothian Heritage, which went on to steamroll its way to a state championship just three days later in a 6-0 victory against Corpus Christi Calallen.
All the Celina girls cross country team could do was be patient.
The Lady Bobcats were satisfied with their race Friday morning at Old Settler's Park in Round Rock, the same site where they won last year's Class 4A state championship.
McKinney Boyd alum Charlie Bartholomew and McKinney North alum Kody Blackwood never shared the track during their high school days. While Bartholomew was busy anchoring the Broncos in the 400-meter dash or the 4x400 relay, Blackwood was carving out his space as one of the top hurdlers in the state.
The two former MISD standouts were among the contingent on hand in Cali, Colombia on Aug. 1-6 for the Under-20 World Championships, contributing to a strong overall showing for Team USA. The Americans captured 15 medals overall, second to Jamaica's 16, but came away with more golds than any other country in attendance with seven.
The first time I turned onto the brand new portion of the Dallas North Tollway extension in Celina, most of it was swathed in darkness.
I had never ventured onto the new concrete ribbon of the new service roads that stretched northward beyond FM 428, but the evening of Sunday, Dec. 4, it felt like the right time. The northbound route cut through the stretches of land that I had not previously been able to observe up close, and nearby lights marking different spots in the city of Celina glittered to my right.
Work has begun on another piece of the puzzle that will form Celina’s future.
On Tuesday, Dallas-based company Alpine Start Development broke ground on The District at Celina, a 303-unit four-story garden-style multifamily development located at 1055 South Oklahoma Drive.
A project that aims to provide a “southern gateway” to Celina’s downtown is going vertical.
At the beginning of August, Washington D.C.-based real estate firm J Street Companies announced that its One Preston Station project in Celina had gone vertical. The announcement comes after the firm broke ground on the project in July 2021.
The state of transportation in Celina hit a major milestone this week.
City of Celina and Collin County officials gathered on the pavement of the newly-built Collin County Outer Loop Project near the intersection of Coit Road on Thursday morning to officially cut the ribbon on a project that will serve to improve east-west connectivity in the area.
Celina’s new senior center will be named after local legend Ralph O’Dell.
The Celina City Council voted Tuesday night to name the center the “Ralph O’Dell Senior Center at Ousley Park.”
Celina voters’ decision to approve all alcoholic beverage sales within the city is expected to have an economic impact within the community.
Part of Tuesday’s election ballot for Celina voters included a local option election to allow for the sale of alcoholic beverages including mixed beverages within current city limits.
Celina is on the road to master planning its “next big park,” and it’s looking for local input.
The city has joined forces with design consulting firm Dunaway to develop a master plan for the roughly 100-acre Wilson Creek Park, located east of downtown Celina at the intersection of future Roseland Parkway and future Sunset Boulevard. The park will be within walking distance for residents of the Parks at Wilson Creek neighborhood.
With Celina now boasting a population that surpasses 36,000 people, a number of commercial projects are sprouting around town to meet growing demand.
Celina-based HBA Design Build has announced five commercial projects — either under contract or under construction — that will all be open within the next 12 months. The projects come as Celina, which maintained strong residential growth through the pandemic, continues to see strong population growth. That growth is key when it comes to how businesses are timing their move to Celina.
On the heels of opening the doors to a brand new middle school, Celina ISD is looking ahead to completing construction on its third elementary school in a number of months.
A stone’s throw from Jerry and Linda Moore Middle School at the corner of Louisiana Drive and E G. A. Moore Parkway, there sits a campus of steel, brick and other materials that has been coming together since ground broke on the site on March 1, 2022. Celina ISD Elementary School No. 3 is slated to be completed in May with expectations to open to students for the 2023-24 school year.
In 1971, a group of Celina cheerleaders had an idea.
They’d been thinking about how to boost spirit for the Bobcat team.
On Tuesday night in Celina, a group of uniformed officers gathered in front of the small brick-faced building on Colorado street.
Chatter fills the square parking lot as everyone gathers near the front steps for a series of photos in front of the department’s current headquarters building.
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