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Posts on ‘May 15th, 2007’

Shelton Building sold

The historic Shelton Building at 901 Houston Street (home of the downtown Kinko’s) has been purchased by the owners of the historic Sinclair Building at 5th & Main. The building was built in 1900, but its current look is that of a 1937 Moderne remodel job. In an interesting bit of Fort Worth [...]

New Office Building for the 6th/7th Split

Red Oak Realty, who recently purchased 500 West 7th (the 1961 SOM tower on Burnett Park that’s a mini recreation of their famous NYC Lever House tower) have announced plans for a four-story office building on the small block next to the 500 W. 7th parking garage, where there is currently an unused bank drive-through. [...]

Bad News/Good News

Well, the Klabzuba Oil 10-story tower shrank to 4 stories by the time it actually got approved, so unfortunately the building won’t be contributing to the skyline. The good news is that there is apparently talk of a hotel development on the site as well. Whatever the case, we’ll keep you posted on [...]