A 40-acre data center campus proposed by Dallas developer Crow Holdings may spell the end of Dallas’ Market Hall building.
No closing date has been publicly announced. But the building, once touted as the world’s largest privately owned exhibition hall, appears to no longer serve its original purpose. The venue is no longer booking events. The last scheduled event is this weekend, and its future remains unclear.
Crow Holdings declined to provide additional details about the future of Market Hall, including any potential demolition or repurposing. The 40-acre site spans from an empty field near Children’s Medical Center to the Market Hall. However, Crow Holdings said the nearby Renaissance Dallas Hotel is not included in the current redevelopment plans.
“Crow Holdings, the owner of Dallas Market Center, has explored redevelopment options for the property they own across Market Center Boulevard, including Market Hall, for the past 15 years,” Dallas Market Center spokesperson Cole Daugherty told The Dallas Morning News. “All wholesale trade events previously held at Market Hall were moved into the core Dallas Market Center buildings over the past year to better serve our trade customers. Dallas Market Center has stopped booking future events at Market Hall as strategic options are evaluated.”
Monday’s statement offered a more detailed picture of Crow Holdings’ plan for the Dallas data center. The company first announced the project in January, but officials did not provide an exact location for the entire campus.
Crow Holdings previously said the 40-acre site was “an urban infill site” that the Crow family had owned for decades along the Stemmons Corridor. No demolition permits have been filed for Market Hall as of Tuesday, a search of city records shows.
Zoning verification and determination letters for multiple parcels of land, including the Market Hall site, were requested by Crow Holdings representatives earlier this month. The firm also requested an address change for the first phase of its data center campus earlier this week. Crow Holdings’ initial building will be five stories, city documents show.
Crow Holdings officials said in January that design work was underway for the first 70-megawatt building that was to be built on a vacant lot. Initial site work on an empty Crow-owned parcel between the Renaissance hotel and the Children’s Medical Center began in recent weeks.
Crow Holdings will develop the data center alongside CleanArc Data Centers, which will handle leasing the property.
Crow Holdings touted the site for its proximity to two major network interconnection hubs: the Infomart building at 1950 N. Stemmons Freeway and 2323 Bryan St. The campus is designed to support multiple uses.
Market Hall opened in 1960 as part of the larger Dallas Market Center complex. It sits across Market Center Boulevard from the rest of the campus. Market Hall has hosted key figures including President Richard Nixon, who spoke at a political rally on behalf of then-U.S. Senate candidate George H.W. Bush.
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked as the No. 1 primary data center market in the world, edging out Atlanta and Virginia based on factors such as land and power availability, as well as political and regulatory conditions. North Texas has more than 10 gigawatts of planned capacity, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s 2026 Global Data Center Market Comparison report.