{"id":197911,"date":"2026-03-10T07:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:25:20","slug":"denton-staff-to-put-7-surplus-properties-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197911\/","title":{"rendered":"Denton staff to put 7 surplus properties up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDenton City Council directed staff to move forward with selling seven city-owned surplus properties, which could earn the city $1 million-$2 million, at a March 3 council work session<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

The seven surplus properties include:<\/p>\n

4 acres at South Mayhill and East McKinney Street managed by capital projects<\/a>0.27 acres at 602 Rose St., previously used by the drainage division<\/a>0.32 acres at Riney Road and North Elm Street managed by the streets division0.05 acres on the 100 block of Maple Street run by the drainage division0.38 acres 702 S. Locust St. managed by the drainage division0.46 acres at 709 S. Locust St. used by the drainage division0.6 acres at Paisley Street and Audra Lane managed by the streets division<\/p>\n

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Some background<\/p>\n

In 2025, the city\u2019s budget task force and Matrix Consulting Group<\/a> recommended that city staff identify underused properties, according to city documents. Staff\u2019s review found seven potential surplus properties, according to a presentation from Deputy Director of Real Estate DeAnna Cody.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overall goal is to prevent long-term, inactive or unprogrammed assets,\u201d Cody said. \u201cWhen a property no longer supports those [city] initiatives, it\u2019s to determine potential reuse opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city owns about 650 tracts of land across roughly 4,700 acres, split between several city departments, per Cody\u2019s presentation. The surplus properties make up about six acres.<\/p>\n

\"visualization\"\/<\/p>\n

The criteria for identifying surplus property include physical condition, previous attempts to sell the property, current need and inquiries from the public, Cody said.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead<\/p>\n

The city can sell the properties through a closed bid or direct sale to another organization. Any proceeds from the sales will go to the funding source that purchased the property, Cody said.<\/p>\n

City staff will bring any qualifying bids to council in late summer or early fall, Cody said. If all seven properties sell, staff expect the sale to net the city $1 million-$2 million.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denton City Council directed staff to move forward with selling seven city-owned surplus properties, which could earn the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4519,1313,116,118,117,406,40842,32274,78188],"class_list":["post-197911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-city-council","tag-denton","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-government","tag-land","tag-sale","tag-surplus-properties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197911","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=197911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}