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Fort Worth billionaire leads this week's 5 hottest Fort Worth headlines

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. Fort Worth billionaire loses crown as wealthiest person in Texas, Forbes says. Eclectic entrepreneur Elon Musk has officially knocked Walmart heiress Alice Walton of Fort Worth off her longtime perch as the richest person in Texas. On April 6, Forbes released its 2021 list of the world’s billionaires. Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, landed at No. 2 globally with a net worth of $151 billion. He sat at No. 31 in last year’s ranking. Forbes lists Musk’s place of residence as Austin, although he hasn’t confirmed where in Texas he settled last year.

2. Babe's steakhouse cousin Sweetie Pie's Ribeyes opens in North Richland Hills. It's been more than five years in the making, but Sweetie Pie's Ribeyes, a new steakhouse that's a sibling to the beloved Babe's Chicken chain, has finally opened its doors in North Richland Hills. A representative confirmed that the restaurant was open, but with limited hours for the first week.

3. Affluent Fort Worth neighbor cashes in among country’s richest communities. The quiet, mansion-dotted enclave of Westover Hills is one of the most well-to-do towns in the country, a new study confirms. The affluent Fort Worth neighbor ranks No. 5 among the wealthiest suburbs in the United States. RenoFi, a marketplace for home renovation loans, studied data for more than 600 suburbs of 50 major U.S. cities to come up with its list.

4. Acclaimed Fort Worth BBQ restaurant Smoke-a-holics debuts new spinoff. One of the city's top barbecue spots is expanding to the Crockett Row area of Fort Worth: Smoke-a-holics BBQ, whose nearly two-year-old store on Evans Avenue in southeast Fort Worth has won acclaim from BBQ aficionados near and far, will open a location this month inside Crockett Hall, the indoor food hall located at 3000 Crockett St. near the Cultural District.

5. Long-awaited bridge near downtown Fort Worth finally opens to traffic. After six years of construction, a long-awaited and much-maligned "bridge to nowhere" finally can take drivers somewhere. The White Settlement Road bridge northwest of downtown officially opened to traffic on Friday, April 2. It is meant to connect downtown with Panther Island.

The restaurant has earned much acclaim for its BBQ.

Photo courtesy of Smoke-A-Holics

The restaurant has earned much acclaim for its BBQ.

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New IndyCar race comes to Arlington via Jerry Jones and Texas Rangers

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IndyCar Series @ AT&T Stadium

The NTT IndyCar Series will return to Texas with the IndyCar Grand Prix of Arlington, a race planned for March 2026 that will take place near AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field.

The location is no accident as Penske Entertainment, which owns the race series, is partnering with the Dallas Cowboys and REV Entertainment, the official events partner of the Texas Rangers, to put on the event in a first-of-its-kind joint venture. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told a reporter that he was all in on the idea "as soon as [he] saw Roger Penske's name."

The race will feature a 2.73-mile track layout that will weave that will weave through Arlington’s core sports and entertainment district, which features the current homes of the Cowboys and Rangers, as well as Choctaw Stadium, the Arlington Convention Center, and more.

The NTT IndyCar series features a series of open-wheel racing competitions in the United States and Canada, with the Indianapolis 500 being the most famous. Races take place on a mix of oval, temporary street circuit, and permanent road course races.

The new event in Arlington marks a return to the Dallas-Fort Worth area for the NTT IndyCar Series after Texas Motor Speedway, which had hosted a race every year between 1997 and 2023, but was dropped from the series in 2024.

In a press conference on October 8, Penske said the 2.73-mile course in Arlington will include a straightaway that runs nearly one mile long — making it one of the longest straightaways in an IndyCar race. It will also include on-street racing, which is more appealing to fans than on enclosed tracks.

Planning for the race weekend is underway, including the appointment of veteran motorsport industry executive Bill Miller as president of the IndyCar Grand Prix of Arlington. Miller previously served as president of California Speedway and senior VP of at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), which represents vendors in the automotive aftermarket.

Like all other NTT IndyCar Series races, it will be broadcast on FOX, which recently signed a media rights deal with IndyCar.

The IndyCar Grand Prix of Arlington will feature a full weekend of racing and entertainment, with general admission, reserved seating, VIP hospitality, and party zone areas available.

Fans can register their interest by going to gparlington.com.

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