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A DALLAS COLONY IN COWTOWN

By Michael Pellechia |

BUSINESS Dallas interests have done more than stake a claim on fashionable Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth. They’ve practically colonized the retail and hospitality district anchored by the ceramic-roofed Ridglea Village.

The Camp Bowie strip was actually “created” by J.T. LUTHER, the legendary Fort Worth developer who sold Ridglea Village to Dallas real estate magnate HENRY S. MILLER in the early Eighties. That opened the way for a flood of Dallas capital. Where a Fort Worth-based cafeteria once stood, there is now a 40,000-square-foot shopping center managed by Dallas’s Lincoln Property Company and anchored by a sprawling Taylors Bookstores, another Dallas-based firm. Owner of the property is Metropolitan Life, through its Dallas-based real estate investment office.

Dallas’s JIM STRODE, who co-owns the Ridglea Plaza shopping center (with Dallas’s Centre Development), says he had to buy Handy Dan and Crystal’s Pizza out of their leases in order to make room for a 51,000-square-foot Tom Thumb-Page (yes, owned by Dallas’s Cullum Companies) set to open this month. In the last year, four more Dallas restaurants-Celebration. Good Eats, Jason’s Deli, and Uncle Julio’s-have settled along Camp Bowie, testifying to Fort Worth’s yen for that great Dallas food. And Strode recently signed a Baylor Weight Management Center, which should keep his other Dallas-based tenants-Seabrook, Sound Warehouse, and Cobblestone & Co.-feeling right at home.

Luther shrugs when asked about the sale to Miller, which was the entering wedge of the Dallas invasion. “You have to sell something to eat,” he says.

Should Luther get hungry again, he’ll have plenty of free time to look for other tenants, since he doesn’t have to bother himself with the day-to-day leasing and management of his Camp Bowie property.

That’s taken care of by the Trammell Crow Company. Of Dallas.

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