Crow built the Dallas Home Furnishings Mart, in the mid-1950’s with 8 million square feet of exhibition space. Following on this success, he built trade marts from Atlanta to Brussels. In the 1960s and 1970s, Crow built the Peachtree Center in Atlanta and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, two urban landmarks. Crow was known as the largest real estate developer in the nation, with assets worth over $2.7 billion in the 1980’s.