The Grow DeSoto Market Place is a 26,000-square-foot space located in DeSoto, TX. This building once housed ACE Hardware as its anchor tenant for many years. The facility has since been repurposed and now houses a variety of restaurants, retail spaces, and offices for small business owners. Currently, 80 percent of the space within the facility has been leased to a variety of microbusinesses ranging from restaurants to a full service fitness/rehabilitation center. This public-private partnership is the first of its kind and uniquely caters to start ups in the Best Southwest Region of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan area.