Tom Hicks
Prominent Dallas-based investor and former sports franchise owner Thomas O. Hicks died on Saturday at the age of 79, leaving a storied legacy steeped in D-FW’s real estate and business scene. A master of the leveraged buyout, Hicks got his start in corporate lending before embarking on a successful career in private equity. He made…
The Crespi Estate, one of the most prestigious properties in America, and the most significant estate in Dallas is, once again, for sale. But this time, three of the original Crespi Estate land parcels can go with it. In 1938, Italian Count Pio Crespi and his wife Florence Crespi hired Swiss architect Maurice Fatio to…
I was hooked the very first time I heard about a real estate auction. First of all, I am a consummate bargain hunter. Though I need nothing in this world, I trotted into Tuesday Morning as soon as it re-opened. Imagine how the prospect of getting a house for cheap energizes my blood? But why…
If the railroads vital to the Crespi family’s cotton trade had run through Waco and not Dallas, Pio and Florence Crespi might have hired Maurice Fatio to build their estate there, instead of Walnut Hill Lane in Dallas. And nobody would be agog today at the news that the Crespi estate, which has changed hands…
Note: This article has been updated with information obtained after first publication. Concierge Auctions will be auctioning off a Dallas landmark property, the former Crespi Estate now known as Walnut Place, as it was christened by its previous owner, Tom Hicks. The 1938-era, 29,000 square foot estate was commissioned by Count Pio Crespi, built of…
