Real Estate Empire
During the 1970s and 1980s, Barnes developed a multi-million dollar real estate empire which included the development of such projects as Southwest Parkway and Barton Creek Country Club in Austin. Like his former mentor John Connally, he entered bankruptcy following the collapse of the real estate bubble in the mid-1980s.
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