H. Ross Perot, Jr.
Dallas, Texas
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Vanderbilt University
United States
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real estate
$2,300,000,000
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#1008 Billionaires 2019
#354 Forbes 400 2018
In 1988 Perot founded Hillwood, his real estate development company. On 18,000 acres of pasture outside Fort Worth, Perot's Hillwood built AllianceTexas, an "inland port" and logistics center. Hillwood has developed dozens of industrial projects nationwide including data centers for Facebook, plus residential communities in Texas and beyond.In 2017 Hillwood sold 15 million square feet of industrial buildings to Singapore-listed Global Logistic Properties for a reported $1.1 billion.He is working with famed architect Norman Foster on a Dallas skyscraper.
A former Air Force pilot, Perot was the first ever to circumnavigate the globe in a helicopter. In 2001 he sold the Dallas Mavericks basketball team to Mark Cuban for $285 million.
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