Anyone who’s taken Interstate 35 between Dallas and Austin knows the Alico building. The tallest skyscraper in the state when it was completed, in 1911, it remains the tallest building in Waco, by ten stories. But it’s hardly the city’s most prominent structure. The roughly two million people who visit Waco each year might notice the giant red Amicable Life Insurance Company sign that tops the tower, but many are coming to visit the Silos, the Disneyesque 5.3-acre downtown shopping complex built by Chip and Joanna Gaines, who in the span of twenty years have gone from running a local business to overseeing a multimedia empire. In 2003 the couple, who had recently begun renovating homes, opened Magnolia Market. (Originally on Bosque Boulevard, it’s now…
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