Company news, Fort Worth, Texas, October 28, 2026
Hayden Slack Becomes Owner of G.L. Hunt Foundation Repair as Fort Worth Company Nears 40 Years
Founder Gary Hunt has passed the company he started in Tarrant County in 1987 to his son-in-law, who has run G.L. Hunt since 2015 and now leads it as Owner and CEO.
G.L. Hunt Foundation Repair, a Fort Worth foundation repair company founded in 1987, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Hayden Slack has acquired the company from its founder, Gary Hunt. Slack, Hunt’s son-in-law, has run G.L. Hunt since 2015 and now leads it as Owner and CEO. The purchase, completed in June, keeps one of North Texas’s longest-running foundation repair companies in the family as it approaches its 40th anniversary in 2027.
Gary Hunt started G.L. Hunt in Tarrant County in early 1987. The phone number on the company’s yard sign in the 1990s, (817) 222-9253, still rings at G.L. Hunt today, and it remains the company’s most-called line.
Slack stepped in to lead the business in 2015, when Hunt stepped back for health reasons and the family needed someone to steward what he had built. A graduate of Angelo State University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting, Slack has since grown G.L. Hunt across Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Waco, moved operations into a 15,000-square-foot facility, and added poly-foam concrete lifting to the company’s services.
“This is a meaningful milestone for our family and our company,” said Hayden Slack, Owner and CEO of G.L. Hunt Foundation Repair. “Gary built G.L. Hunt on trust, hard work and doing right by people. My responsibility is to protect that legacy while continuing to move the company forward for our customers, our team and the communities we serve.”
Customers, partners and vendors can expect continuity across the business. The G.L. Hunt name, team, services, warranties, contracts and customer commitments all remain in place, including the transferable warranties that protect homeowners who sell their homes.
“G.L. Hunt has always been about more than repairing foundations,” Slack added. “It is about protecting homes, earning trust and standing behind our work. That commitment is not changing. We are proud to carry it from one generation to the next.”
The transition caps a year of local recognition for the company and for Slack, who was named to a Fort Worth 40 Under 40 list in 2026. G.L. Hunt has earned more than 8,000 five-star Google reviews from Texas homeowners and provides foundation repair, drainage correction, crawl space encapsulation and concrete lifting.
Read the company’s story at glhunt.com/about-us, or schedule a free foundation inspection at glhunt.com/free-estimates.
