Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Sundance Square’s newest addition, the new office/retail tower known as The Carnegie, just keeps growing and growing as it approaches its final 16-story, 236-foot height. If you haven’t been around 3rd & Taylor lately, you ought to check it out - it’s really added a ton of bulk to area. It’s also become [...]

I’ve been hearing things about this for a while, and now that the Star-Telegram has made it public, I might as well talk about it.
CityHomes (a division of Centex), who are currently building Westview on the Upper West Side in downtown, are going to build a 20-unit townhome development on Carroll Street between 5th & [...]

If you’re just arriving after reading about Fort Worthology in Anthony Spangler’s piece on blogging in Fort Worth, welcome! It’s a pleasure to have you. Fort Worthology is all about promoting urban development and transit here in the Panther City. I’m Kevin Buchanan, your host, and I’m a member of the Congress [...]

Episode Two of the West and Clear Podcast is now online, coming to you this time around from the Rahr Brewery. This week’s topics include Silcoxgate, the District 9 race, and a few other random topics. Starring Steve-o, Pete W., Bernie, and yours truly.
Head over to West and Clear to take a listen [...]

Your eyes, they do not deceive you:

Work is finally - finally - underway on the Shops & Lofts at So7, the biggest phase of the So7 urban development that stretches along Trinity Park between 7th & Lancaster. The Shops & Lofts will feature extensive ground floor retail space with condos above, and will fill [...]

Trinity Terrace’s City Tower on the Upper West Side continues its upward progress. Not only is framing underway, but bricks are being readied for the facade as well. It shouldn’t be long before we start seeing the facade coming together.

(Edit: Apparently, the Star-Telegram did not run our story today, so the S-T welcome portion of this post has been removed, to be re-posted when the story does run.)
Our city is changing. I do my part in covering the urban development aspect of it, but we’re also becoming a tech savvy, wired, funkier [...]

Yesterday, I talked about the progress being made on this building (and others) in the Museum Place development in the Cultural District. I had not yet seen renderings of this building (at 7th & Arch Adams), nor did I know exactly what it was going to be.
I’ve now learned both. The existing 7-Eleven [...]

The Oleander Place Townhomes, which will be built along Oleander Walk and Adams (across Oleander Walk from the Texana Townhomes), now have a web site up and running, and I’ve been able to get some more info on them.
The units will range from 1,700 sq. ft. to 2,600 sq. ft., and all will be three [...]

Now closed, the Wreck Room awaits its date with the demolition crews as Museum Place, the 11-acre mixed-use development across from the Kimbell and Modern, moves ahead with its construction.

The site where the Texaco used to be at the big intersection has been cleared for the construction of a glassy Flatiron-style office building with ground [...]

Cypress Equities continues demolishing block after block on 7th in preparation for its West 7th mixed-use development. In the heart of the project, one of the last holdouts - 7th Haven - prepares to depart its soon to be demolished building on the 27th (don’t worry, 7th Haven fans - they’re moving across the [...]

That’s right - it’s another installment of the Cowtown Chronicles Podcast! This time around, Pete, Pete, Steve and I chat about Modern ’til Midnight and get into a discussion of modern art, and I give a little architectural rant by talking about the Ugliest Building post. Click over to Cowtown Chronicles to listen [...]

Pete over at Cowtown Chronicles has apologized for comments made about Rahr pricing during Episode 9 of the podcast. Fritz & the gang at Rahr rock, and make a quality beer - and it stinks that some retailers take advantage of that.
Check out Rahr’s site for more info on the brewery and their products.

If you haven’t noticed, Fort Worthology has pretty much become a 7-day-a-week blog. If you haven’t payed attention, here’s a couple of posts you missed over the weekend.

On Saturday, I critiqued Cantey-Hangar Plaza, currently under construction in downtown.
On Sunday, I sought out, and found, Fort Worth’s ugliest building.

Fort Worth has a lot of fantastic architecture. From the Art Deco beauty of the Sinclair Building and T&P, to the monumental grace of the Tarrant County Courthouse, to the drama of Phillip Johnson’s Water Gardens, to the restrained masterpieces that are the Kimbell and the Modern, we’ve definitely earned a spot as an [...]

I’ve gotten some inquiries asking when I planned to do more architectural commentary, so here’s one for you - Cantey-Hangar Plaza, going up right now next to the Bank of America garage on 6th Street across from 500 West 7th and Burnett Plaza.
I didn’t have too many issues with this building in the past, but [...]

The Caceria Building, Wagner Oil’s new 7-story office building in Sundance Square, has topped out. Work is now underway framing for walls and windows, and it shouldn’t be much longer before we see the facade work underway. The Caceria Building is designed by Fort Worth’s Gideon Toal, and will feature six floors of [...]

Just a reminder - tonight is the District 9 City Council forum, being put on by the neighborhood associations of Fort Worth South at the Travis Avenue Baptist Church community center on Berry at Hemphill. The forum starts at 7:00 PM.
I’ve also now learned that there will be another candidate forum. This one [...]

Fort Worth’s Cultural District and 7th Street Corridor are changing rapidly now as work rolls forward on the Museum Place and West 7th projects. The cranes are up at Museum Place for the office/residential/retail building between Baily and 7th at the big intersection:

While the Museum Place live/work/retail building further down 7th is already topping [...]

We mentioned during the podcast that another District 9 candidate forum would be held this Thursday, and now I’ve got the information on it, in a letter sent out by the Fairmount neighborhood association:
Our city councilwoman, Wendy Davis, is stepping down after several years of service to Fairmount and the south side. Six candidates are [...]

Another recent Holga pic - Pioneer Tower at the Will Rogers Memorial Center. Click the image for a bigger view:

Fort Worth, it’s time to do a little thinking.
I am speaking of the issues of the Southwest Parkway, the proposed streetcar light rail system, and the planned Southwest-to-Northeast rail line. Now, if you’ve read Fort Worthology for any length of time, you probably already know that I come down on the side of rail, [...]