LifePath Systems has opened a new, larger campus in McKinney to centralize and expand behavioral health crisis services for Collin County. The facility at 2295 Bloomdale Road sits on an 11.5-acre site on the southeast corner of Bloomdale Road and Community Avenue and houses roughly 110,000 square feet of space, with firms and contractors including Beck Architecture and Rogers-O’Brien involved in design and construction.
LifePath Systems describes the facility on its website: “The new facility will be located at 2295 Bloomdale Road in McKinney. This campus will feature a 110,000 SF facility with an expanded mental health crisis center, jail and law enforcement diversion services, intensive behavioral health services, Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability Authority offices, and administration offices.” Project materials break that total into about 65,000 square feet of office space and about 45,000 square feet of crisis center space; one report lists the behavioral crisis center at 108,700 square feet. The campus includes 11,000 square feet of unfinished shell space for future use.
The crisis center itself is designed to boost local capacity. Deputy Clinical Officer Danielle Sneed said, “We’re doubling capacity here.” Design plans cited in coverage show a 16-bed extended observation unit and a 28-bed crisis respite unit, though Sneed noted the actual increase will depend on staffing levels. LifePath has also planned to embed diversion programming with Collin County’s Diversion Center to steer people toward treatment instead of jails or emergency departments; the agency set a target of diverting 500 people each fiscal year and will begin monitoring law enforcement wait times to reduce officer wait and drive times for behavioral health incidents.
Funding for the project has multiple figures in circulation. Construction-only headlines have cited a $42 million price tag; a financing summary lists a $46 million total that includes $42 million for construction plus $1 million for office furnishings and $3 million for fixtures, IT and signage. LifePath Systems’ Board of Trustees approved $30 million in designated reserves for the project, leaving about $16 million still needed from other sources. Collin County provided the land and initially allocated $1,690,849 as contractual match dollars.
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Timeline claims vary among reports. Rogers-O’Brien recorded a groundbreaking in June 2023; some project coverage described the center as scheduled for completion in February 2025. Community Impact reported in mid-January 2026 that crisis operations were set to relocate to the Bloomdale Road campus in late January, and LifePath’s site refers to the location as its “New 2025 Campus.” LifePath thanked local leaders for attending a ribbon-cutting, offering “Special Thanks to Mayor Bill Cox, Angela Robinson Wade of the McKinney Community Development Corporation, and the entire McKinney Chamber of Commerce.”
For McKinney residents, the new campus centralizes emergency behavioral health response and creates space at LifePath’s Heritage Drive site to refocus on routine outpatient care and early childhood services once crisis operations move. The county and LifePath say the center aims to reduce burdens on emergency rooms and jails and shorten response times for law enforcement. Next steps for readers include watching whether staffing keeps pace with bed capacity, whether the project’s remaining $16 million in funding is secured, and how quickly diversion targets and law enforcement wait-time reductions materialize for Collin County’s communities.