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PLANO, TEXAS — AT&T (NYSE: T) has broken ground on its $1.3 billion headquarters campus in Plano, about 20 miles north of Dallas. The 54-acre campus is ultimately planned to feature 2.2 million square feet of space across seven buildings, as well as three parking garages and a welcome center. The telecommunications giant is consolidating roughly 100,000 employees at the new campus. According to the Dallas Business Journal, AT&T employees will relocate to the Plano office from AT&T’s current headquarters at the Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, as well as satellite offices in Irving and Plano. The site formerly housed the headquarters campus for Ross Perot’s Electronic Data Systems (EDS), according to Dallas Business Journal. The former EDS buildings were demolished in August to make way for AT&T. AT&T is developing the horizontally designed campus in partnership with groups such as Dallas-based developer KDC and global architecture firm Gensler. Employee parking was a critical design element for Gensler, which says that all parking will be covered and situated less than three minutes from a building’s front door. Additionally, the campus core will be positioned within a quarter mile from all parking options. The newly constructed buildings will be outfitted with …