Chip and Joanna Gaines of the HGTV reality series Fixer Upper are opening new offices in two of Texas’ historic railroad towns.
Magnolia Realty, a Waco-based residential brokerage, was founded by the couple in 2007 as an extension of their Magnolia lifestyle brand which was launched in 2003. Starting in Waco, the firm has since expanded to Austin, San Antonio and the Temple-Belton area. It also has an office in Argyle, a northern suburb of Fort Worth.
The two new offices will open this week in Grapevine and in Granbury, according to the Dallas Morning News. Though the two markets are located about 60 miles from one another, they share distinct similarities.
Grapevine, where Chip Gaines went to high school, is on the south end of Grapevine Lake opposite Argyle. Grapevine is known for its restored 19th- and 20th-century buildings like the ones that line its Cotton Belt Railroad District. The office, located at 128 East Texas Street, is a former residence that was previously repurposed as a barbecue restaurant and commercial office space for various businesses. Magnolia purchased the building in late 2020 and spent the last couple of years remodeling it.
Granbury, on the other hand, is not a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, though it is 37 miles southwest of downtown Fort Worth. It’s actually the principal city of its own micropolitan statistical area. Named after a Confederate General, the small city has been bought and sold by different railroad companies throughout the past century.
While Grapevine is also historically a railroad town, it’s since transformed its historic railways into tourist attractions and commercial spaces. One such attraction is the famous site where Bonnie and Clyde and their associate Henry Methvin shot two Texas state troopers.
The Gaines’ have built their brand on transforming historic structures. In fact, the couple just launched a new show, Fixer Upper: The Castle, which follows them as they makeover a 19th-century estate in Waco.
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