- Billionaire Mark Cuban purchased the ghost city of Mustang, Texas, in 2021 for about $2 million.
- Cuban has by no means even been there and has “zero plans for it,” he informed me in an electronic mail.
- I drove to go to Mustang, inhabitants zero. I discovered no buildings, however an intriguing historical past.
I just lately realized that Mark Cuban, the billionaire and former proprietor of the Dallas Mavericks basketball crew, purchased a complete “ghost city'” referred to as Mustang for about $2 million in 2021.
Mustang is about an hour away from the a part of Dallas the place I stay. However till now, I had by no means come throughout it — and it seems that virtually no one in my circles had both.
The Census experiences that Mustang’s inhabitants is zero, so perhaps that is smart.
Sometimes, I might file away this newfound data within the recesses of my thoughts — an uncommon story I may 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 concerned with shopping for a city with no individuals? Is it genuinely deserted? What is likely to be value saving there?
I even reached out to Cuban by electronic 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 mentioned has a $6.2 billion internet value, informed me. “I’ve zero plans for it, I have never ever been there.”
I did some studying. Cuban purchased Mustang from principal proprietor Marty Worth, a Dallas lawyer and devoted Mavericks season ticket holder, in accordance with NBC Information, who spoke with Mike Turner, a real-estate agent who brokered the deal. The New York Occasions reported the explanation: Worth, who died in August 2021, apparently did not wish to depart his spouse and kids a hard-to-maintain ghost city.
I wished to know extra, however Turner did not name me again.
In moments like these, a saying usually involves thoughts, “The remedy for ignorance is curiosity.”
So I went to Mustang. Sure, I hopped into my automobile, opened up Google Maps, and drove from my downtown Dallas house to a distant city that wasn’t even on my radar till final week.
This is what I discovered.
