I not too long ago discovered that Mark Cuban, the billionaire and former proprietor of the Dallas Mavericks basketball workforce, purchased a complete “ghost city'” known as Mustang for about $2 million in 2021.
Mustang is about an hour away from the a part of Dallas the place I reside. However till now, I had by no means come throughout it — and it seems that virtually no person in my circles had both.
The Census reviews that Mustang’s inhabitants is zero, so perhaps that is smart.
Sometimes, I’d file away this newfound data within the recesses of my thoughts — an uncommon story I might later impress my mates with over espresso or dinner.
Nonetheless, my curiosity refused to wane.
Quite a few questions crowded my ideas: Why would somebody be inquisitive about shopping for a city with no folks? Is it genuinely deserted? What is likely to be price saving there?
I even reached out to Cuban by e mail to get some solutions. He had little to say about it.
“I purchased it to assist out a basketball buddy who was dying of most cancers, he wanted it for his household,” Cuban, who Forbes stated has a $6.2 billion web price, advised me. “I’ve zero plans for it, I have never ever been there.”
I did some studying. Cuban purchased Mustang from principal proprietor Marty Value, a Dallas lawyer and devoted Mavericks season ticket holder, in line with NBC Information, who spoke with Mike Turner, a real-estate agent who brokered the deal. The New York Instances reported the rationale: Value, who died in August 2021, apparently did not wish to go away his spouse and kids a hard-to-maintain ghost city.
I needed to know extra, however Turner did not name me again.
In moments like these, a saying usually involves thoughts, “The treatment for ignorance is curiosity.”
So I went to Mustang. Sure, I hopped into my automotive, opened up Google Maps, and drove from my downtown Dallas condominium to a distant city that wasn’t even on my radar till final week.
Here is what I discovered.
