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Fort Worth Broker Earns National Honor

FORT WORTH-James N. Austin Jr. is one of five nationwide from a field of 300 selected for the Good Neighbor award. He's best known locally for founding the Renaissance Cultural Center and National Cowboys of Color Museum and Hall of Fame.

By Connie Gore | Updated on November 06, 2003

FORT WORTH-The founder of Renaissance Cultural Center in Fort Worth has been selected from a field of 300 nationwide for a Good Neighbor award by the National Association of Realtors.

James N. Austin Jr., with the Austin Co. Commercial Real Estate in Fort Worth, was one of five nationwide to receive the REALTORS Magazine honor. Austin and his wife, Gloria, set up the center in 1991 in Fort Worth’s Evans Avenue neighborhood, picking a vacant grocery store in an inner city section of mostly minority residents. The center’s program includes college scholarships, which have exceeded $200,000 in the last eight years. The center also hosts events like film festivals, poetry readings and talent competitions. To help raise funds, the Austins sponsor an African-American annual rodeo with a six-city tour in Texas and Oklahoma. Austin also is known locally for founding the National Cowboys of Color Museum and Hall of Fame.

“I’ve been working hard for a long time to make Fort Worth a better place to live,” Austin said in a press release. “That’s really the reason behind the RCC and the museum. I just want to keep on being a good neighbor.”

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