Posts under ‘Near Southside’

Must have missed the link - turns out that WFAA did a story on the proposed Magnolia Avenue bike lanes. Click here to watch it. A pretty decent story, all in all - though I must say I look forward to a future where requesting that we reduce traffic lanes, slow cars, and [...]

The TownSite Co. acquired this building not long ago when it bought what is usually known as the former Motheral Printing site in the Near Southside. TownSite is making plans at the 11-acre assemblage of buildings and vacant lots centered around the intersection of South Main & Pennsylvania for a mixed-use development on the [...]

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The Dallas Business Journal is reporting that Cook Children’s has bought the former Carnival grocery store at 8th Avenue & Allen in the Near Southside and will be renovating it into office space.
Disappointing news from a neighborhood perspective - at the very least, I was hoping to see some sort of grocer return [...]

The full program for tonight’s Near Southside Arts Goggle is now online. This time promises to be the best yet - there are an outstanding fifty-four venues all around the Near Southside full of art and music. This time around, Fort Worth South, Inc. will be providing a circulator bus and pedicabs, so [...]

I attended the Fort Worth South, Inc. presentation yesterday evening on the proposed re-striping of Magnolia Avenue to feature fewer traffic lanes and create dedicated bike lanes. As I expected, there were both supporters and opponents in attendance. What I was pleasantly surprised at was the very strong showing of supporters at the [...]

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At last night’s Fairmount neighborhood association meeting, District 9 councilman Joel Burns announced that plans were underway to introduce a bit of urban agriculture to the Fairmount neighborhood in the Near Southside. The vacant lots shown above on Google Maps at 5th Avenue and Maddox, across from Fairmount Park, are currently owned [...]

Just a reminder: tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM in the Community Room at the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders on Magnolia is a meeting being presented by Fort Worth South, Inc. on the “Complete Streets” proposal for Magnolia Avenue. The proposal would see Magnolia re-striped as shown in the crude drawing I [...]

Over the weekend, I took my photographic equipment to the Near Southside and spent some time wandering around taking HDR photos of things. For the uninitiated, HDR photography involves taking multiple photos of a subject at different exposures, then blending the exposures together on a computer to create an image with a much higher [...]

Got word of a plan moving through the city planners at the moment to vacate (ie, close) Alston between Broadway and Peter Smith on the Near Southside. I’m guessing this is related to the new apartment development that’s been quietly announced by Fort Worth South, Inc. and which is being developed by Seneca Investments [...]

So much for the St. Joseph’s Garden mixed-use project. As Sandra Baker writes in the Star-Telegram:
The vacant St. Joseph Hospital on the near south side, where Tarrant County’s first hospital was founded by nuns in 1885, is headed for the wrecking ball and will be replaced by a county healthcare facility, its new owners [...]

The Oleander Place Townhomes at Adams & Oleander are making good progress on Phase One. The stucco rear facade is up, and the brick & stone facades facing Adams and Oleander are now going up. Inside, I’m told that finish-out is proceeding nicely, and that kitchen cabinets and such are going in. [...]

Wait, what? New development on Rosedale? And it’s right up against the street? And the parking’s in the back? Hosannah! There’s hope yet. It would appear that Fort Worth South’s new Near Southside Development Standards and zoning are already having a positive effect.
I was a bit concerned when I [...]

Phase One of South Village Lofts on Bryan has completed. South Village Lofts is a green loft townhouse development that is going for LEED certification. The adjacent loft is presumably where the second phase will be constructed.

Developer Eddie Vanston is moving right along with his restoration and redevelopment of the former Sawyer Grocery Store buildings on South Main into ground-floor retail with apartments on the second floor. As seen above, the older building on the corner is nearing completion.

The slightly newer building next door is right behind it. The [...]

Wow.
The reason for the visit to Moxie was research. If you don’t know Amy and I personally then you probably haven’t heard that Amy is in the beginning stages of her next business venture. That venture being a real Art House Cinema in Fort Worth (of course I’ll be helping her out but just like [...]

I took these photos of Thistle Hill at twilight yesterday evening, and thought I’d share with you all. Click the photo for a bigger view.

The restoration and redevelopment of the Sawyer Grocery buildings on South Main has really brightened up that part of town, and work has been steadily progressing. As you can see, the exteriors are getting to be fairly complete, while significant progress inside can be seen through the windows compared to the progress I saw [...]

The long-planned Lofts Of St. Mary’s development, which will transform the ’50s-vintage metal church gymnasium in Fairmount into a modern living space, has been floating around for a long time now - I first reported on it back on December 21, 2006. Back in September, I reported that the project might be headed in [...]

Continuing the series on the homes of the most recent Fairmount home tour, today’s entry takes a look the beautiful Reeves home. Built in 1920, it is a Craftsman bungalow which is in remarkable, mostly unrestored condition. As shown above, the exterior features a large front porch, twin symmetrical gables and matching twin [...]

I’ve just heard some information that a developer is in the planning stages of a new urban apartment development to be located at College & Peter Smith in the Near Southside. Details are thin at the moment, but the development will be three or four stories in height surrounding a hidden central parking structure, [...]

As Fort Worth’s urbanization moves ahead and older central-city neighborhoods come back to life, developers are constructing infill housing all over the place. Depending on the neighborhood, this takes several forms - rowhouses, for example, are springing up in Magnolia Village (loosely defined as the area north of Magnolia up to Rosedale, centered around [...]

The new Near Southside branding is now underway. Fort Worth South, Inc. received an anonymous donation from a member that has allowed them to begin installing the Near Southside neighborhood signs shown above at 50 intersections throughout the district. This is the first step in a new branding campaign that will also include [...]

Phase 1 of the South Village Lofts, the new LEED Certified green townhome development on Bryan Avenue just off South Main in the Near Southside, looks to be finishing up at this point. The two units, which are priced from the $250,000s, are approximately 1,984 square feet. They feature LEED certification (not sure [...]

During the past weekend’s Fairmount home tour, I had the opportunity to walk through several historic homes in the neighborhood. Over the coming week, I’ll be talking a bit about those homes. Today, though, I’d like to talk about one of the two “bonus” homes on the tour - a brand-new home that [...]

The new Oleander Place townhomes across from the Texana townhomes at Adams & Oleander are making good progress - windows are now going in to the nearly fully-framed townhomes. The first four units, which face Oleander, are really moving along nicely. Click the photos for a bigger view.
Units at Oleander Place start in the $260,000s [...]