The Venue

The City of Richardson
Home to the Telecom Corridor® area, Richardson is known around the world as
the high-tech center of North Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The 11-
mile Telecom Corridor® area averages 50 technology companies per square mile,
making it one of the densest high-tech areas in the United States.
Richardson is currently a major employment center drawing thousands of
workers, both tech and non-tech, to its more than 5,700 businesses, including
multi-national employers such as Nortel, Samsung, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-
Packard, MCI and Fujitsu.
The world-class University of Texas at Dallas, with more than 14,000 students,
also calls Richardson home and attracts many of the brightest scholars from the
area's award-winning public school systems.
Located just 15 miles north of downtown Dallas, Richardson offers easy access to
major freeways and a public transit system (with direct access to DFW
International Airport by 2006). Richardson also boasts some of the finest Class A
office and industrial buildings, and build-to-suit corporate campus acreage