Historic 32,000-SF Fort Worth Public Market sold | Historic 32,000-SF Fort Worth Public Market sold | https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=3762 | 2014-07-01T13:11:00Z | 2014-06-30T00:00:00Z |
FORT WORTH - The 32,393-sf Fort Worth Public Market Building at 1400 Henderson St. has been sold. Bob Simpson, co-owner of the Texas Rangers, sold the property to the billionaire Wilks family of Cisco.
The 84-year-old property was listed as a Texas historic landmark in 1980 and was placed on the National Register of Historic places in 1984.
The Wilks family will likely restore the building for a business use, according to Wilks Bros. CEO Robert Early. The deed carries a restriction that the main building can’t be demolished and the outside cannot be materially changed before June 12, 2084.
Farris and Dan Wilks are the West Texas founders of Frac-Tech Services, a hydraulic fracturing and oilfield service company launched in 2002 in Cisco, their hometown. In 2011, they sold Frac-Tech to a Singapore company for $3.5 billion.
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
| Public Facilities
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