{"id":398561,"date":"2026-08-05T18:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398561\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:48:28","slug":"tarrant-countys-growth-is-making-the-fort-worth-area-of-the-metro-more-attractive-to-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398561\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County’s Growth Is Making The Fort Worth Area Of The Metro More Attractive To Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"

While suburbs like Prosper and Celina get most of the attention for North Texas\u2019 continued meteoric growth<\/a>, Fort Worth outpaced every other city in the state last year and has helped Tarrant County<\/a> catch the eye of institutional investors<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Panelists<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Bisnow\/Billy Wadsack<\/p>\n

Interbank’s Terry Smith, Republic Property Group’s Seth Carpenter, The Beck Group’s John Beck, LanCarte Commercial\u2019s Sarah LanCarte and Crescent Real Estate’s Jeff Dyer<\/p>\n

Over the past year, development in Tarrant County has ticked up as it scored massive projects related to large-scale magnet production<\/a>, semiconductor manufacturing<\/a> and mixed-use developments<\/a>. From July 1, 2024, to the same date last year, Fort Worth added nearly 20,000 new residents, the second-highest total in the nation behind only Charlotte, according to the latest data<\/a> from the U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That pushed its population over 1 million, past Jacksonville, Florida, to make it the 10th most populous city in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That growth has caused commercial real estate companies to increase their investments in Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Crescent Real Estate<\/a> Senior Vice President of Investments Jeff Dyer said. It\u2019s also produced positive momentum for the area’s industrial, office and multifamily markets, according to the latest reports<\/a> from Colliers. All that growth has brought the area to the attention of institutional investors, who are increasingly requesting to tour assets and sites in Tarrant County, Dyer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“People have executed in other markets, and they look at the demographics here, the trajectory here, some of the sites here that are probably value plays compared to other markets, and they’re interested,\u201d Dyer said during Bisnow’s Tarrant County State of the Market on July 30 at The Crescent Hotel in Fort Worth. \u201cAnd I don’t think it’s going to stop.”<\/p>\n

Fort Worth\u2019s growth illustrates that the city is somewhere people want to be, and the increasing interest from institutional investors shows it has become a primary market, according to LanCarte Commercial<\/a> President Sarah LanCarte<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Panelists<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Bisnow\/Billy Wadsack<\/p>\n

Weaver’s Howard Altshuler, Arlington EDC’s Marty Wieder, Trademark Property Co.’s Terry Montesi, Commercial Real Estate Strategic Partners\u2019 John Terrell, Hillwood’s Guy Grivas, Merriman Anderson Architects’ John Carruth and Younger Partners’ Moody Younger<\/p>\n

Bulk warehousing has emerged as the hottest industrial product in the area, with LanCarte noting that her company regularly receives calls from companies looking for space in Abilene or Wichita Falls that just doesn\u2019t exist. Instead, she has to redirect them to the Fort Worth area, where warehouses from 600K SF to 1M SF are getting absorbed rapidly due to the region’s growing data center market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It is not data centers<\/a> necessarily, but a lot of suppliers,” LanCarte said of who is leasing the warehouse space.<\/p>\n

Electronics manufacturing services company Celestica<\/a> plans to invest $876M<\/a> to build what Fort Worth officials called a \u201cmega project\u201d to help meet demand for data center infrastructure<\/a> and advanced technology solutions. The Toronto-based company\u2019s more than 1M SF campus for advanced manufacturing and engineering will be in the AllianceTexas<\/a> area of the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alliance is a 27,000-acre master-planned community from Ross Perot Jr<\/a>.\u2019s company Hillwood<\/a>. It has an industrial pipeline of 8.2M SF, including a 1.2M SF speculative building that Hillwood plans to deliver next summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The area’s profile has also grown thanks to the popularity of the television program Landman, which is overseen by Taylor Sheridan<\/a> and filmed at his huge Fort Worth production studio<\/a> in Alliance.<\/p>\n

\"Panelists<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Bisnow\/Billy Wadsack<\/p>\n

House of Tangram’s Shawn Ellis, Stockyards Heritage Development Co.’s Kristin Assad, The Dirdie Birdie’s Vik Khasat and Kensington Vanguard National Title’s Zach Sams<\/p>\n

Sheridan\u2019s work and the continued development at and around the Fort Worth Stockyards<\/a> illustrate how the area has maintained its culture throughout the growth it’s experienced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Fort Worth has \u2026 a little grit,\u201d Republic Property Group<\/a> Senior Vice President of Development Seth Carpenter said. \u201cThere’s real true character here, and that’s attractive to people because they can find a place in the nicer suburb areas … or thriving, highly dense areas.”<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s changing landscape has also prompted many longtime residents of Fort Worth and its suburbs to evolve past former \u201cdon\u2019t Dallas my Fort Worth\u201d attitudes about development, The Beck Group<\/a> Director of Business Strategy John Beck said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The area has maintained its authenticity but has adopted more of a growth mindset, he said.<\/p>\n

“We do want these Fortune 500 companies, and we do want a world-class real estate apparatus,\u201d Beck said. \u201cThat’s really healthy for the community.”<\/p>\n

LanCarte said she would like to see the area attract more corporate relocations but called the Tarrant County office market the strongest it\u2019s been in a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Fort<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Bisnow\/Billy Wadsack<\/p>\n

Fort Worth EDC’s Robert Allen and 101 Studios’ David Glasser<\/p>\n

Part of the reason for that is high interest rates and inflation kept developers from overbuilding in Fort Worth as they did in Austin, Dyer said. Not being overbuilt will allow the area\u2019s growth to be sustainable.<\/p>\n

While he said he\u2019s bullish on the future outlook for Tarrant County, Dyer tempered his enthusiasm by pointing out there\u2019s still progress to be made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I want to see the existing developments underway get absorbed before we get really excited,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While suburbs like Prosper and Celina get most of the attention for North Texas\u2019 continued meteoric growth, Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[108542,32462,52906,116,118,117,5620,139895,139896,138483,29758,139897,139898,2870,139899],"class_list":["post-398561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-celestica","tag-colliers","tag-crescent-real-estate","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-hillwood","tag-jeff-dyer","tag-john-beck","tag-lancarte-commercial","tag-republic-property-group","tag-sarah-lancarte","tag-seth-carpenter","tag-taylor-sheridan","tag-the-beck-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398561","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=398561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}