Behind the scenes at the Fort Worth facility that prints half the nation's cold, hard cash

Past a field where cattle still graze, about 13 miles from Fort Worth’s vibrant Sundance Square, behind a guarded perimeter fence and a sprawling parking lot, huge machines groan and hum, churning out what may be the world’s most coveted item.

The product? Money. Greenbacks. Cold, hard cash.

And it’s here, in a high-tech Cowtown factory — not Washington, D.C. — that most of it is printed.

Newcomers to Dallas and even some longtime Texans may not realize that more than half of the nation’s paper currency is printed in their own backyard.

But over the last couple of decades, what started out as a 288,000-square-foot building meant to produ…
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