Comments on: Heritage Park – "Insulted and Humiliated"

By: Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:34:17 +0000

As a teen our family “bought a brick” to help fund the building of this park. In spite of high hopes, I remember this park as a scary place where the homeless bathed in the fountains. It was never a place one wanted to linger in. With hidden corners and blind alleys you never know who was hiding just out of site.

The same could be said about the Water Gardens before the re-do. Opening the WG to the convention center changed the dynamics of that park. The same could be done with Heritage Park. Make it part of the developments around it by opening up new access points.
Jeff Hughes

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:26:21 +0000

That is a beautiful park! It reminds me of a monochromed Barragon.

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This Week On Fort Worthology | West And Clear — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:05:09 +0000

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By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:34:39 +0000

Kevin, I don’t know if you have seen this powerpoint presentation. It’s old but it appears that at one point there was interest in this awesome little park by some people that may be motivated to take up for it again.

http://www.planning.org/cpf/pdf/fortworth.pdf

By: Anton

Anton — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:07:03 +0000

I’ve never even seen that park before, it looks incredible. Or, at least, it looks like it was incredible. It’s in a pretty sad state. Fort Worth needs to get it’s act together and preserve it’s even as it’s building it’s future.

By: FWTacoma

FWTacoma — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:32:13 +0000

For some good news, apparently the County and City are planning on working on that small park area on the north side of the courthouse. At a commissioner’s meeting they showed the original plans for the area and it sounded like the County or City (not sure) wanted to clean it up a little in the spirit of the original plan and fix the way traffic comes into downtown.

Who knows if this is just a pipe dream or if its something that is actively being pursued, but it would be nice to make that entrance into downtown even more grand.

Now if we can just work on Belknap.

By: Suzette

Suzette — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:52:21 +0000

I emailed Mr. Burns and copied the Mayor asking what’s up with the park. I also asked if a drill site was in the works for this site. I figured that was a pretty fair question to ask being this is boomtown for drilling everywhere and anywhere in Ft. Worth.

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:05:16 +0000

I hate to say it but I have not been at all impressed with Fort Worth’s ability to care for itself–I’m surprised, too, because its population is booming, the taxes are high—where does all the money go? This city could sooo easily have beautiful parks and amenities–so much of it seems to be in disrepair.