Posts under ‘Uptown’

UPDATED with better-quality rendering.
We reported earlier on the big new 36 acre mixed-use development announced for the area surrounding LaGrave Field in Uptown spurred by the Trinity River Vision, and at last we have gotten ahold of the rendering.
This looks to be a truly wonderful bit of urban design, and we can’t wait to see [...]

So it begins. We’ll give you a link to the Star-Telegram story for full details, but to summarize:
Fort Worth Cats owner Carl Bell has announced plans for a 36 acre mixed-use development between his team’s home of LaGrave Field and downtown. The development will feature 1.5 million square feet of office and retail [...]

Work proceeds on the new landmark Tarrant County College campus in downtown. Above, you can see a view into the large pit dug into the Trinity Bluffs for the downtown side of the campus. Parts of the structure are at last starting to rise from the pit. The college extends back into [...]

As an aside to our previous post about the TCC Campus, there’s been one thing bugging us - what are we going to name all the stuff the TRV will be bringing us?
Think about it - the TRV will be giving us a new bypass channel, a new lake where the Clear Fork and West [...]

We’ve been hearing some rumblings lately about how the new TCC downtown campus currently under construction is a mistake, that it’s too expensive, that TCC should be a simple place to educate students and not concern itself with important landmark structures, etc. etc. etc. Most of this is likely spurred by the recent cost [...]