Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Another photo from my recently-developed roll of Holga photos - this time, a view from the center passageway at Montgomery Plaza.

Now online - the 12th installment of Fort Worth’s finest podcast. Starring Steve-o of The Caravan of Dreams, Pete of Cowtown Chronicles, Bernie Scheffler, District 9 City Council candidate and owner of Panther City Bicycles, Pete G. of 1/3 Stop Vignette, and yours truly.
This week: Steve-o and Bernie talk about the recent voter [...]

Another shot from my just-developed roll of photos from my Holga - this time, it’s the So7 Townhomes off 7th just outside downtown. Click the image for a bigger view:

The Dallas Business Journal is reporting that the Commerce Building (or what history buffs prefer to call the Fair Building) and the Oil & Gas Building on 7th have been sold to a private New York-based investing firm, RYLB FW Properties. The firm is said to be planning a “major renovation.”
Details were not given, [...]

I’ve just gotten back a roll of photos taken with my Holga camera, and I’d like to share some of them with you. The Holga takes very odd, somewhat surreal-feeling photos, and they can turn out quite cool. Here’s a pic of Panther City Bicycles on Magnolia - click for a bigger view:

Downtown’s new Omni Hotel continues to rise from its four-story excavation alongside the Convention Center. Here are a few night photos of the progress that’s being made. This view shows that the sixth floor of the condo tower portion of the building is being worked on.

On the Convention Center side, crews have been [...]

You might be noticing a few changes around these parts. Well, you’re not imagining things - there’s a new Fort Worthology for your enjoyment! There have been a lot of tweaks made, and I’d like to mention a few of them.
Most obviously, there’s a new look. The site’s still powered by Wordpress [...]

The corner of Weatherford and Pecan, which was previously home to LANWT’s offices in an old church, will soon be the site of their all-new office building. The building, on the northern edge of Pecan Place and the border between downtown and Uptown, will feature 20,000 square feet of office space and allow LANWT [...]

Trinity Terrace’s new 16-story City Tower retirement apartment tower is rolling right along, and appears to be up to the 12th floor. Framing for the walls and facade is underway as well. Here’s a recent look:

The finished product will look something like this:

Just a quick note to welcome the latest link to our blogroll - the official blog of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, which stands alongside the Kimbell as my favorite museum in the entire world (and also stands alongside the Kimbell as one of my favorite museum buildings in the world). The [...]

Previously, all I’ve had to show you of the planned T&P Warehouse project was a very blurry shot of the project’s three renderings, but now I’m able to show each of the renderings in much greater clarity. Click the images for a bigger view:

The renderings show that not only would the warehouse itself be [...]

A big addition to the Museum Place construction site: the two cranes for the big office/residential/retail building on 7th are going up.

Meanwhile, I couldn’t help but notice this little curiosity. At the old Econo Glass & Mirror building on 7th, across the street from the old Acme Brick headquarters that will soon [...]

I’ve been hearing now that, at long last, the Shops & Lofts at So7 will be getting underway this month. The final piece of the So7 puzzle, the Shops & Lofts will fill the field between the existing Residence Inn and 7th Street, and will feature retail fronting 7th, Stayton, and new roads built [...]

I’ve been lucky enough to get a look at the new light rail proposal being brought before the city council tomorrow, and I’m very impressed. Above is an image I made showing all the proposed routes, based on the maps shown in the presentation. Short-term, the proposal wants to see a line from [...]

Another Cowtown Chronicles podcast is here, featuring Steve-o, Pete, Bernie, and yours truly! This week’s topics: big news on light rail from me (more coming tomorrow), Steve on dangerous gas drilling chemicals, all of us tired of URLgate, and Pete and Bernie go rugby-ing and swing by Beerfest. Plus, all the usual [...]

Just another reminder - watch here for the link to this week’s Cowtown Chronicles podcast, featuring Steve-o, Pete, Bernie, and yours truly. Coming later today!

I’ll be on the Cowtown Chronicles podcast tomorrow, talking about…who knows what. I’m certain we’ll think of something - there’s been some interesting things this week. Point is, stay tuned, and listen in when it’s posted!

Looks like things are moving right along with the old Knights of Pythias building on the east side of downtown. For the uninitiated, this little building - a historic structure, being an African-American hall from back when the Knights were segregated - was slated for demolition, as we reported first, breaking the story back [...]

Music to my ears, this. From Dan McGraw, in the Fort Worth Weekly:
Next week, the Fort Worth Central City Redevelopment Committee, which deals with issues relating to downtown development and infrastructure, will recommend the city invest in urban light rail. The panel wants Fort Worth to build four “ultra-light-rail” lines, trains that would run [...]

We have received this press release from Bernie’s campaign, and thought it interesting and worthy of posting:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Candidate for City Council District 9 Restates Position on Neighborhood Drilling
FORT WORTH – October 4, 2007 –Bernie Scheffler, frontrunner in the campaign for Fort Worth City Council District 9, today called for a new city ordinance regulating [...]

We reported earlier on the redevelopment of the old Sawyer Grocery buildings on South Main getting underway, and here’s a little peek at their progress. Some work has been done uncovering the ground floors of the buildings, but most of the work going on right now is inside - looking up through the windows [...]

The Carnegie, the new David Schwarz-designed office/retail tower on 3rd Street, has reached 12 of 16 floors. Framing for the windows and walls is going on now as well, so you can start to get a good idea of the building’s massing and fenestration.
The Carnegie will eventually rise to 236 feet. EOG Resources [...]

If it seems like only yesterday that we talked about the sneaky little URL redirect that Joel Burns was pulling, that’s because it was. The short version is that Joel Burns bought www.berniescheffler.com months ago and has been redirecting it to www.joelburns.com, which just seems petty and childish.
Well, I’m pleased to report that today, [...]

I’m at the Chat Room right now, and as Steve-o says, I am sooooo meta.

Steve-o at the Caravan of Dreams reports that Joel Burns, District 9 City Council candidate, has stolen the name of Bernie Scheffler, also a District 9 City Council candidate, for a little sneaky URL redirection trickery. If you go to www.berniescheffler.com (not linking to it, so as not to drive up its Google ranking), [...]