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Frank Wesley Sharp (March 18, 1906 – April 2, 1993) was a land developer in Houston, Texas, United States who was responsible for creating several large post-World War II housing developments. Sharp's largest projects included Oak Forest in 1946 and Sharpstown in 1955.
Frank Sharp may refer to: Frank Sharp (footballer, born 1899) (1899–1963), English football forward with Birmingham and Chesterfield. Frank Sharp (footballer, born 1947), Scottish football winger with clubs including Barnsley.
Frank Sharp (born 28 May 1947) is a Scottish former footballer who scored 13 goals in 231 league games in a ten-year career in the Football League and Scottish Football League. A winger, he played for Heart of Midlothian, Carlisle United, Cardiff City, Barnsley, Grimsby Town, Port Vale, and Northwich Victoria .
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Apr 5, 1993 · HOUSTON -- A funeral was scheduled Tuesday for Houston developer and financier Frank W. Sharp, the central figure in the Sharpstown scandal that rocked Texas in the early 1970s. Sharp, 87,...
Jan 18, 2010 · Frank Sharp was a Houston banker and developer. Sharpstown was one of those burgeoning developments as greater Houston sprawled to the southwest.
Frank Sharp built a lot of single-family homes in postwar Houston. As the lead developer on two major single-family subdivisions, Oak Forest (1946) and the so-humbly named Sharpstown (1956), Sharp helped propel Houston’s outward growth and shaped much of Houston’s early suburbia.
Nov 26, 2018 · It was the late 1960s, and famed Houston developer Frank Sharp, who’d made a pile of money in real estate, banking, and insurance, wanted to see some favorable banking bills pushed through the...
May 7, 2015 · On this day, the Chronicle reported that Houston developer Frank Sharp had started construction on what was to be the largest glass-walled building in the Southwest. It would later become the...
Apr 2, 1993 · Frank Wesley Sharp was a land developer in Houston, Texas, United States who was responsible for creating several large post-World World War II housing developments. Career Sharp"s projects included Oak Forest in 1946 and Sharpstown in 1955.
Sep 15, 2014 · Frank Sharp was concerned about easy transport between downtown Houston and his new neighborhood development, so he donated land to the state of Texas, which became the Southwest Freeway.
