Stan Kroenke buys Largest Ranch in Texas
 

http://www.chron.com/homes/article/L...25-6818219.php

Professional sports mogul and rancher Stan Kroenke, whose holdings include the Los Angeles Rams football team, has been approved to purchase the iconic W.T. Waggoner Ranch in north Texas, representatives of the sale announced Tuesday.
The historic property, considered the largest U.S. ranch behind one fence, had been on the market for 18 months at an asking price of $725 million.
Terms of the potential sale were not disclosed, according to a news release from Perry Street Communications, a Dallas consulting firm.

yep

so?

He plans to move the ranch to LA as soon as possible.

That's a lot of land. I hope he's ready to buy a new lawn mower.

No1curr

damn, 725 million.

It's not so much that you should care as it is an interesting little tidbit of info.

There's a Ranch just West of me that covers an area about 30 miles by maybe 20 miles and they just stocked it with Buffalo. It's an awesome sight. I bet there's at least 400-500 buffalo.

I believe it comes with at least some 4 legged mowers.

That's 384,000 acres. There better be more than 500 critters on there. Even at 20 acres per head that's 19,200 cows. I know buffalo are different but man. Not that different.

Sounds like your Boars might be getting jealous.
Have you every jerked a Buffalo?
Asking for a friend

Yeah, but I bet they threw in a new roof on the ranch house.

You can never go wrong investing in either land or the NFL.

There are something like 6 houses and a bunch of barracks on the property.

I believe this is the master house or some shit.

http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i...20ranch201.jpg

Yep, that looks like a new roof.

It's certainly enormous as ranches go, but when you do the math it doesn't seem that huge. If it was a perfect circle it would have roughly a 33 mile diameter. Yeah, that's a lot of land to own, but you could still drive from one end to the other in a half hour.

That's almost 836 square miles. Per Google, The City of Denver is 154.9 Sq miles.

This is very near where I spent half of my childhood (Wichita Falls, TX). The landscape there leaves something to be desired....

It's big enough to have land in 6 different counties. Look at the huge area this covers:

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...r-detail-9.jpg

I'm honestly disappointed that there isn't a ranch in Texas bigger than all of Rhode Island. Square mileage of Rhode Island: 1,212.

EDIT: Dang, too slow...

We have 38 counties in Colorado that are bigger, if that helps.

Forget a Hollywood mansion, that sounds nice to me. Wide open spaces, peace and quiet, nobody around for many miles. Plenty of room for whatever you want to do. Sounds great.

Colorado sucks. It's where the Donks are.:D

You're just jealous of our large counties.

Finney county in Kansas is huge, and I ****ing HATE that place. Not as much as I hate Donk, but F that place.

This is just a ploy to meet Chip and Joanna. Is it close enough to Waco?

County envy. Maricopa county laughs at you.

wonder what is on those parcels not owned by the estate.

per googlemaps, nothing really. saw one big building, other than that single wides and trash.

I guess snakes need a lot of land

Poco Bueno died November 28, 1969. Mr. Waggoner left specific instructions in his will that Poco Bueno was to be buried in a standing position in a grave across from the ranch entrance on Texas Highway 283. The plot of ground was landscaped with trees and grass. A granite marker, weighing four tons, was engraved with his name, picture and the inscription Champion and Sire of Champions. In 1990, Poco Bueno was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame.

a look at google maps reveals a bunch of nothing

my guess is a while back there were some landowners that wouldn't sell and they (or their heirs) still haven't sold

I would go on a killing spree just so I didn't have to fence that place or drive out and look for newborn calves

And Stan is gonna move him.

Really? That's shitty.

Just my opinion here, never knew to ask anyone that question but I will, but


No ****ing way. He takes ranching seriously.


Btw I think the post was a joke.

It was, in fact, a joke.

ROFL

Whoosh!

http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0...1p3so1_500.gif

http://i.imgur.com/6d2nA0p.jpg

King's Ranch is larger but not privately owned and not bordered by a single fence. It is those two things that differentiate it from the Waggoner Ranch that Stan just bought.

As to large counties, I thought that Coconino county in Arizona was the largest in the country at about 18.5K square miles but it turns out that San Bernadino is larger at a little over 20K square miles. Both are larger than Rhode Island though. :)

I wonder if he will even spend much time there. My Mom after she retired was hired by a lady who was one of the richest women in our area at the time. She handled her personal affairs did bookkeeping and such. She owned so many cattle ranches and oil interests in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Montana. Mom asked her once if she had even seen these properties. She told her heavens no and never planned to. She lived the winters Hawaii and Costa Rica came back to Mission Hills Ks in Summer and this huge house she lived in was only occupied by Mom a Butler and Driver who were always payed on staff in case she did come to KC for business in Winter. She was old money but nice Lady dead now and Daughter is in charge.

Must be nice. I have a couple landlords that hadn't seen their physical asset until 2014, but they're not rich as ****.

Theres an epic, sweeping movie saga in there somewhere

Wives across the nation would weep with joy and anguish

That's gonna be a good episode.

Chip: You guys stole this property for $700M and with you guys's all in budget of $1 billion that leaves us $300M.
*couple hundred million dollars of shiplap later*
Joanna: Stan, you ready to see your fixer-upper?

It makes me sad that he owns my hockey team.

Actually his wife owns that team:D

Technically.

She summered in Kansas? She wasn't very good at jetsetting.

stalwart capitalism. 100 years from now, we are gonna be climbing trumps fence to pick vegtables

Lawn needs some work!

Stan has a pretty ranch in Montana. They are excellent stewards. Invasive weed management is a priority and they are very involved in wildlife habitat programs. Private land owners are engaged and involved. Good folks doing good work.

People that wealthy are doing nothing good

They do much good. And the Kronkes are just one example of sharing good with many less fortunate.

Lot of Old Money in Mission Hills and very rich. Her Lawyers financial advisers generations of her family grew up and stayed. I suppose you can live where you please when you actually are a jet setter with a jet. This was a sheltered woman who's husband died unexpectedly had to learn fast. She hired people to help her as her children had very hard time growing up still haven't probably. My mom was an executive secretary for a large law firm this family kept on retainer. The old woman always trusted and confided in her. There are the rich and then the extremely wealthy the rich are jealous of. That family was that.

Failed to mention Kansas City area was home for generations of this family. Roots do run deep.

id still buy beuler a beer. you, make things worse

Look to the stars for the future geese. They fly on Sundays in reverse. White dogs bark at Midnight.

We share a special bond i the ancient power. Chant the nebula!

Solid gold ponies tend to wear down the grass, I bet.

really? you know that you never made anything better

Yeah, a few Mexicans can fix that. But where's he going to find two eeen Tehas?

They are Scum sub humans

I'm not sure why this is a thread.

Are people going to start posting about acquisitions made by every NFL owner?

**** that.

its called a tax write off

Because he bought the biggest ranch in the us. It's an interesting and unique happening.

And he recently pulled an NFL team out of Missouri

The story of the Waggoner estate and its heirs is truly fascinating. Screenplay material. This is an tremendously well written article!

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles...aggoner-ranch/

He also tried to get St Louis taxpayers to fund a project of his in Maryland Heights....immediately after moving their football team. Dude is a pyscho.