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Tower Club Dallas
The club describes its members as "the city's professionals, entrepreneurs and tastemakers" and states that it has had an open membership policy since it opened in 1982, calling itself "the club that lets everybody in".
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Founding: The club says it opened in 1982 and that it was founded by the Hunt family alongside the Deadman, Perot and Bass families after Margaret Hunt was refused entry to a nearby men-only club.
Tower Club Dallas is a private city club on the 48th floor of Santander Tower at 1601 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, operated by Invited Clubs, the company formerly known as ClubCorp, within its City Club Collection. It opened in 1982 with an open membership policy at a time when a nearby downtown club admitted men only and seated women in a separate dining room; the club credits the Hunt family, with the Deadman, Perot and Bass families, with founding it in response. Because it is a commercial club rather than a member-owned one, it publishes its prices: two membership tiers, both carrying a $100 initiation fee, at $265 a month for Young Executive members aged 39 and under and $312 a month for Resident members aged 40 and over. Both include dedicated workspaces and meeting rooms with no booking fees when food and beverage minimums are met, 50 per cent off a la carte dining at Tower Club and at The Constellation Club in Las Colinas, and XLife City benefits across the Invited network, including up to twelve rounds of golf a year at participating clubs. Applications are submitted online. The club also hosts events for non-members.
How it works
Members use one club floor in downtown Dallas for dining, coworking, meetings and social events, and can host guests and private events; no membership is required to book an event. XLife City benefits extend dining, golf, racquet, fitness and aquatic access across the Invited Clubs network, with 30-day advance booking when travelling and seven-day local access from Sunday noon to Friday noon. The club runs member committees and community partnerships, publishes a quarterly City Clubs Magazine and holds recurring events including an annual ski lodge, fight night, fashion show, New Year's Eve party and a charity classic.
Typical member
Downtown Dallas professionals, entrepreneurs and community leaders. Membership is split by age: Young Executive for those 39 and under, Resident for those 40 and over.
Membership requirements
Requirements in detail, with history →Requirements are the tests the organization itself publishes: an age ceiling, a company-revenue floor, a net-worth minimum, a role. Where a figure straddles a range, the organization's own assessment decides. Local chapters can apply stricter tests than the published standard.
| Criterion | Published requirement | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum age at joining | Young Executive XLife City membership is for professionals aged 39 and younger | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
| Minimum age | Resident XLife City membership is for professionals aged 40 and older | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
| Other criterion | The club states it has operated an open membership policy since 1982 and publishes no eligibility test beyond the age bands | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
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Initiation fees are paid once on joining; dues recur. Chapter dues, retreats, travel and events are usually additional and are listed separately when the organization discloses them. Figures are as published or reported on the date shown, not quotations.
| Cost | First year | Three years | Provenance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly duesa month, counted ×12 | $3,462 | alternative tier, not added | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ | |
| Initiation feeonce | $100 | $100 | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ | |
| Other cost | Food and beverage minimums apply; the club states meeting-room booking fees are waived when those minimums are met, but does not publish the minimum amount | Source ↗ | ||
| Estimated total, disclosed figures only | $100 | $100 | Not counted: Monthly dues (alternative tier, not added), Other cost. | |
Structure and programming
Independent context
Tower Club Dallas is the outlier in this batch: a commercially operated club that publishes its prices, sells memberships online and hosts events for anyone. That makes it directly comparable on cost -- roughly $3,180 to $3,744 a year plus a nominal $100 joining fee -- where the member-owned clubs in this group publish nothing. The trade-off is what the membership is: access to a floor and a national network run by an operator, not equity in a member-owned institution, and the network benefits are structured as marketing tiers that can change. Its founding story is genuinely distinctive and the club leans on it: an open membership policy from day one, established in reaction to a men-only club two blocks away. Note that the club's own former domain now redirects to the Invited Clubs site, so the operator's page is the primary source of record.
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Site-wide change log →- milestoneTower Club Dallas opened with an open membership policy, founded by the Hunt family with the Deadman, Perot and Bass families after Margaret Hunt was turned away from a men-only… ↗
- milestoneClub redesigned in partnership with Thiel & Team; the club says the redesign won seven interior design awards ↗
- milestoneClub marks 44 years since opening and operates on the 48th floor of Santander Tower as part of Invited Clubs' City Club Collection ↗
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Sources
- Private City Club in Downtown Dallas, TX | Tower Club, Invited Clubs. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
- Our Story - Tower Club Dallas, Invited Clubs. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
- Membership at Tower Club Dallas, Invited Clubs. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 2
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