This Week's Hot Headlines

Celebrity ranch for sale tops this week's 5 hottest Fort Worth headlines

This Week's Hot Headlines

Celebrity ranch for sale tops this week's 5 hottest Fort Worth headlines

Radio icon Bob Kingsley and his wife, Nan, lived on the ranch for 25 years.Photo courtesy of Williams Trew
This is only the second store of its kind in DFW.Photo courtesy of MBM
Life inside the bubble.Photo courtesy of Hotel Vin
It'll have scratch-and-dent versions of Lowe's appliances.Courtesy photo
The mani-pedi comes to you.Photo courtesy of Cherry

Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines.

1. Country radio king's Weatherford ranch scoots onto market for $8.2 million. For 25 years, country music radio icon Bob Kingsley and his wife and business partner, Nan, made their home at the legendary Bluestem Ranch, southwest of Weatherford. More than a year after Bob’s death at age 80 after battling bladder cancer, his widow has put their 141-acre horse ranch on the market for $8.2 million.

2. Fort Worth gets one of Macy's cute new smaller-format stores. Department store chain Macy's has opened a new store in Fort Worth that is one of its newer, smaller-format stores. Called Market by Macy's, it opened January 15 in the WestBend lifestyle shopping center, at 1751 River Run, #101, in what was once a cute little Tom Thumb.

3. Hotels with cozy rooftop 'igloos' are a thing in Dallas-Fort Worth. A new hotel in Grapevine has introduced fun little igloos on their rooftop which let you hang outside in a weatherproof environment. Hotel Vin, which opened in September 2020, has added what they call rooftop "bubbles" on their Rioja Rooftop Terrace. They're the second DFW hotel to open igloos to patrons.

4. Lowe's to open first Texas outlet store with discount appliances in Irving. Home goods chain Lowe's Home Improvement is opening a new kind of store in Dallas-Fort Worth: Called Lowe's Outlet of Irving, it will be a discounted version of a regular Lowe's, with new merchandise that has minor cosmetic damage.

5. New on-demand nail service delivers at-home manis & pedis to Fort Worth. Think of it as Uber or Lyft for your fingers and toes. Dallas-based mobile app Cherry has expanded to Fort Worth, bringing on-demand nail services to clients' homes beginning January 15.

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Slides News

Slick City Action Park all-ages indoor park slides into Arlington

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An innovative indoor park has opened in Arlington: Slick City Action Park, a dry-slide and air court park, has opened a location at 1100 W. Arbrook Blvd., with its proprietary indoor slides and other attractions.

The action park spans approximately 25,000 square feet and features a variety of their signature "dry slides," up to 22 feet tall, in a variety of configurations: some straight downhill, some curvy, some with a roller-coaster vibe. You wear $5 socks you must buy at the venue, and you do your sliding on mats.

A standout is the Royal Flush, making its debut in the DFW market and exclusive to this location. The ride launches riders into a high-speed drop, sending them swirling around a giant bowl before a thrilling plunge. Toilety!

Other slides include the Rush, the Mega Launch, and the Avalanche. Additionally, the park offers two sport air courts for basketball and dodgeball. There is a Junior Jungle multi-level playground for kids, and a two-level patio with 15-plus party table spaces is great for celebrations.

Tickets are $26 for 90 minutes, or $36 for two hours; for anyone 4 years or older; it's $14 for under 4 years old.

While kids are the primary customer, other locations say that their customers are about 20 percent adult, and they host special late adult-only nights.

Headquartered in St. Louis, Slick City was founded by Bron Launsby alongside co-founder Gary Schmidt, who also founded Slick Slide Co., a revolutionary slide manufacturing company. Slick Slide Co. pioneered the slides that define the parks, delivering an unmatched sensation of speed and elevation, similar to a waterslide but without water and unlike anything else on the market.

They opened their first location in Denver in early 2022. Each franchise is independently owned and operated. The first DFW location opened in Denton in August 2024. There are two other locations in Texas, in Katy and Houston. They're also opening locations in Frisco and Plano in the spring. The Arlington location is in a former furniture store just east of the Parks mall, near Cooper Street and I-20.

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