The Dallas Business Journal featured the sale of the Liberty State Bank Building, reporting that Wildcat Management sold the 115-year-old historic structure at 600 S. Harwood Street in the Dallas Farmers Market District. Tanya Ragan, Wildcat’s president, originally purchased the building from the City of Dallas for $1 in 2014 when its original location on Elm Street was threatened by road expansion plans.
Key Highlights
- Wildcat Management sold the Liberty State Bank Building at 600 S. Harwood Street in the Dallas Farmers Market District
- Originally purchased from the City of Dallas for $1 in 2014, when its Elm Street location was threatened by road expansion
- Ragan partnered with preservation architect Craig Melde of Architexas to relocate the building brick by brick at a total project cost of $2 million
- The 1899 building retained its original cast iron columns, corner entry, and red bricks after relocation
- The building currently houses Green Door Public House and V12 Yoga
- Sale price was undisclosed but confirmed to be more than the $1 purchase price
Why This Sale Matters
The Liberty State Bank Building sale closes a decade-long chapter in one of downtown Dallas’s most unusual preservation stories. Ragan bought a building destined for demolition for a dollar, moved it several blocks through a process she has compared to assembling a giant puzzle, and delivered it to a new location where it became a neighborhood anchor in the Farmers Market District.
The sale is not the point. What the building represented — and what Wildcat Management demonstrated by saving it — is the point. That a private developer would take on a $2 million relocation project for a building purchased for a dollar says something specific about how Ragan approaches urban development.
“It’s not about the sale of the building itself but about what it represented during that time. The experiences of the last 18 years and the evolution of my life and career are all encapsulated in this endeavor.”
— Tanya Ragan
As Seen in the Dallas Business Journal
Founder and President of Wildcat Management, Tanya Ragan is a Dallas real estate developer, investor, and entrepreneur with twenty years developing some of North Texas’s most recognized neighborhoods. 2024 Texas Icon. Top 100 CRE Influencer. Co-author of Blaze Your Own Trail. She started in fashion, detoured through oil fields, built half of downtown Dallas, and has opinions about all three.