The Real Deal’s Top 100 in Texas highlights the figures shaping development across the Texas Triangle, a megaregion with five major metros and more than 22 million residents.
Capital and politics loom large. While Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton champion laws limiting which immigrants can purchase real estate in Texas, Dallas real estate scion Trammell Crow’s son Harlan Crow shapes Dallas’ financial ambitions from the exclusive Old Parkland.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk has amassed control of 6,000 acres in Texas after shifting the headquarters of his companies Tesla and SpaceX from California to the Lone Star State. He’s also bringing back the company town with the development of Snailbrook in the Austin far suburbs and Starbase, which officially became a Texas city in 2025.
In North Texas, Jerry Jones transformed a football franchise into a development engine, using Blue Star Land to spin AT&T Stadium into Frisco’s The Star and a slate of nearby master-planned communities.
Down in Houston, Satya CEO Sunny Bathija is testing the state’s appetite for vertical luxury with the development of a St. Regis-branded condo tower on the doorstep of Houston’s prestigious River Oaks neighborhood, a notable move in a luxury residential market long dominated by sprawling estates.
In Texas’ capital of Austin, David Binswanger and Clay Duvall of Lincoln Property Company are in the midst of building the state’s tallest tower, Waterline. As Austin and San Antonio merge into a metroplex, Charles Butt is using the state’s growth patterns to map out the expansion of his iconic Texas grocery empire, H-E-B.
Explore the full Texas Top 100 to see the rest of the players defining this cycle.
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