West 7th Grand Opening
March 5, 2010 at 9:11 am | Architecture & Urban Design, Urban Development | Tags: 7th Street, Architecture, commercial, Cultural District, events, mixed-use, Residential, Retail, urban design
At last night’s West 7th Spring Bash, Mayor Moncrief and representatives of developer Cypress Equities were on hand to officially cut the ribbon on the big new mixed-use development. Prior to the ribbon cutting, Mayor Moncrief spoke about the development, reiterating several of the points from his State of the City address – that Fort Worth must continue to encourage central-city growth with denser, walkable mixed-use developments rather than solely continue to sprawl.
Cypress shut down Crockett Street between Currie and Norwood, giving plenty of space for attendees to stroll around in a car-free setting. Residents of the lofts upstairs were out on their balconies having their own parties and waving to Spring Bash attendees below. Bars were set up in the central plaza, and of course the retailers open thus far were open and encouraging people to visit (Cypress, in fact, gave the mayor a pair of boots from Heritage Boots, one of the development’s ground-floor retailers). Newly opened Terra Mediterranean Grill was showing off their very cool outdoor bar on Crockett, set up to face the sidewalk. At the end of the block, a stage was set up where the band Reckless Kelly performed throughout the night.
It was a fun event and a great way to officially open the West 7th development. Congrats to Cypress Equities on this impressive project – we look forward to seeing how it matures and continues to build out the remaining blocks and fill the last tenant spaces.
