McKinney has an old square and a brand-new north side

Around McKinney’s square, older houses give up copper, cast fixtures, and the scrap of a renovation that is trying to keep the front elevation. Those loads are fiddly and worth sorting. North of there, new sections produce builder cutoffs, HVAC line, and the packaging metal of a house that just closed.

A junk car on an older lot near the square is often a title problem as much as a metal problem. Say if you have the paper. New-subdivision HOA gates are the other access issue — include the code.