What is Mark Cuban going to do with Texas town he owns?

What is Mark Cuban doing with the minuscule ghost town he bought about an hour and a half drive from downtown Fort Worth? Well, he doesn’t really know yet. The town is Mustang (insert a joke here about Cuban and horses, ‘cause he’s also the owner of the Dallas Mavericks), in Navarro County. He talked about it in March on “The Drew Barrymore Show” (an episode that was posted online July 26) and pitched the idea of turning it into “Dinosaur, Texas.” But, Star-Telegram news partner WFAA-TV reported Thursday, that’s not going to happen. “I told Drew it was something we were looking at ... but it’s not going happen,” Cuban told WFAA in an email. “That show was taped a long time ago.”

The idea was to turn the 79-acre town, about 0.1 square miles, into a sort of theme town with animatronic dinosaurs. He’d already invested in Dino Don, an entrepreneur who works to create robotic, life-sized dinosaurs, on an episode of “Shark Tank.” Mustang is home to 0 people and two buildings including an abandoned adult entertainment venue once known as Whispers Cabaret and now listed (by all appearances as a joke) on Google Maps as “Whispers Cabaret aka Mark Cubarets.” Despite its size and lack of residents, it is a real town, at least on paper. It’s even listed as a possible destination on the Exit 225 sign on Intestate 45, heading south from Dallas or north from Richland. The town was incorporated in 1973 as a sort of adults-only town. Navarro County was dry at the time, and the little almost-rectangle between I-45 and Southeast County Road 1010/1020 was established as a place to sell alcohol to folks in the area. Cuban bought Mustang to help a friend’s family.