On a trip to Las Vegas earlier this year, one of the members of our party spoke wistfully of wagering on horse races at Manor Downs back in the 1990's. I had forgotten about Manor Downs, and for good reason: it stopped holding horse races in 2010 and closed shortly thereafter (though inexplicably it still has a functioning website).
We know people with rental property in the area, thus I keep an eye on the current events in the Manor area. I recently read that Dalfen Industrial will convert the 146 acre Manor Downs site into an industrial park with six buildings (totally about 1 million square feet in aggregate). Construction is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2022 and the estimated time of completion is in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Manor Downs hosted Farm Aid II in 1986. While the new project is not as cool as that, it is a positive improvement to the area and indicative of the regional growth the Central Texas area is experiencing.
If you live in Texas and really want to see live horse racing, you can still find tracks open near San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston.
