'It Was Our Destiny:' Miller Twin Sisters Redesigning Fort Worth Through M2G Ventures

Arlington TX

09 December, 2021

8:06 PM

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By Kristen Barton, Fort Worth Report December 9, 2021 At 3 years old, the Miller twins started a restaurant in their house for their parents.They were always creating, always innovating. At 8, they got involved in the family real estate business, driving around their hometown with their parents to look at possible houses to invest in. The same kitchen table that served as their restaurant is where their parents started presenting them with decisions about business. The sisters always knew they would want to work together, so they began in the real estate industry they learned from their parents. Jessica Miller Essl and Susan Miller Gruppi grew up in Longview — a town of over 81,000 people about 160 miles east of Fort Worth — where their father Richard and mother Susan invested in real estate all over the city. Now, the 35-year-old sisters are redesigning Fort Worth one building at a time. Their company M2G Ventures is a commercial real estate development group with two main fields, Essl said. The first adapts mixed-use districts and the other builds ground-up urban industrial. The company buys vacant buildings, redesigns them and leases the space. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.