{"id":17296,"date":"2025-10-23T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17296\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:12:10","slug":"new-wells-fargo-campus-in-irving-a-sign-of-companys-growing-footprint-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17296\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wells Fargo campus in Irving a sign of company’s ‘growing footprint’ in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wells Fargo\u2019s new campus in Irving is the latest sign of the finance industry\u2019s growing investment in North Texas.<\/p>\n

The $570 million campus has two 10-story buildings with 850,000 square feet of space overlooking Lake Carolyn in the Las Colinas neighborhood by the Toyota Music Factory, Irving Convention Center and about 15 minutes from the D-FW International Airport. It will hold about 4,500 workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy bringing our Dallas-Fort Worth area employees together in this dynamic environment, we\u2019re better positioned to support our clients and customers across Texas and the U.S.,\u201d Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said in a statement<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

One of the two 10-story buildings Wells Fargo says will be energy net-positive by using solar panels and dimming windows. <\/p>\n

The company celebrated the opening Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and panel discussion between Scharf, TV personality Mike Rowe, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at the addition of Wells Fargo and their growing footprint in the state of Texas, we are growing leaps and bounds ahead of any other state,\u201d Abbott told a crowd of about 130 people during the panel discussion.<\/p>\n

He touted the region\u2019s growing finance sector<\/a> as an example of how the Texas economy has diversified and become less reliant on the oil and gas industry, making the state\u2019s economy more stable.<\/p>\n

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved an application for the Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange to start listing as early as next year. Economists say it could have rippling effects throughout Texas.<\/p>\n

The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is second only to New York City when it comes to the number of financial sector employees. The growth has been largely attributed to the area’s relative affordability and business-friendly politicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe word welcoming doesn’t do justice to what the governor has done for us,\u201d Scharf said at the event. \u201cHow many cell phone numbers of different governors do you think I have across the country? The answer is one. And it’s this governor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Gov.<\/p>\n

From left, Gov. Greg Abbott, Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf and TV personality Mike Rowe speak during a panel discussion about the future of the economy. <\/p>\n

Rowe spoke at the discussion panel about the need for more workers in trade and construction jobs to build out large facilities like the Irving campus. Wells Fargo is funding his Work Ethic Scholarship Program<\/a>, which helps people pay for trade school.<\/p>\n

Rowe told KERA anybody can capitalize on the region\u2019s growing financial sector because of how many buildings are under construction.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody who’s ever dreamt of being in a corner office is gonna need somebody who can build a corner office,\u201d Rowe said.<\/p>\n

The Wells Fargo location opened as Goldman Sachs is still building out its $500 million campus in Uptown Dallas, which will be 800,000 square feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe D-FW area truly is the epicenter of finance in the United States,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n

Dylan Duke is KERA’s Fall news intern. Got a tip? Email Dylan Duke at dduke@kera.org.<\/p>\n

KERA News is made possible through the generosity of our members. If you find this reporting valuable, consider making a tax-deductible gift today. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wells Fargo\u2019s new campus in Irving is the latest sign of the finance industry\u2019s growing investment in North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13520,13521,13522,7343,4872,1266,13523,13524,27,29,28,13525,7735],"class_list":["post-17296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-charles-scharf","tag-dirty-jobs","tag-finance-sector","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-gov-greg-abbott","tag-irving","tag-las-colinas","tag-mike-rowe","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-wells-fargo","tag-yall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}