Posts under ‘Urban Development’

Phase one of SoSeven’s Shops & Lofts is progressing steadily. With construction having neared completion on the first two buildings, which will be office space over retail, most work is concentrated on the third and fourth buildings, which will be condos over retail. Here, the condo/retail building fronting 7th rises alongside the first [...]

We took a look at Museum Place yesterday, and now it’s time for the West 7th development by Cypress Equities down the street. Framing should be getting underway shortly for the apartments above the retail here in these two buildings on either side of Crockett Street. The buildings should top out at 5 [...]

Finally took the time away from remodeling to get some construction photos. Here’s an update on the progress at Museum Place in the Cultural District. One Museum Place, the big retail/office/condo building, is very nearly complete, as seen in the photo above. The last bits of glass and such are going up [...]

I was unable to attend the presentation developer Tom Struhs gave on the Trinity Bluff project at the TRV offices last night, but I’ve pieced together some notes from the presentation from various sources. Here’s some of the interesting stuff Mr. Struhs revealed:

The Bass family is in some sort of planning stages for a [...]

While I’m deep in House Remodelingland and thus a bit disconnected from events and goings-on, I have noticed another article in the Business Press revealing that the West 7th development has announced another tenant: Delaney’s Irish Pub.
Developers of Fort Worth’s West 7th project have inked a deal with Delaney’s Irish Pub for 5,000 square [...]

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Not long after putting their nifty jet-age Classifieds Building up for sale, the Star-Telegram has done something surprising and rather disappointing: they’re putting their main office building downtown up for sale. The historic Star-Telegram Building was built in 1920 and designed by the legendary local firm Sanguinet & Staats. It [...]

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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 Fort Worth Business Press reports that the West 7th development is continuing to add tenants to its roster, and that Cypress has switched from Starwood to another hotel operator. The new hotel will be announced by the end of the month.
The ground floor of the hotel building will feature retail with an elevator [...]

UPDATE 2: Reader jefffwd writes that the domain name “thecassidy.com” was registered on August 1st by the Enilon Group, a local web design and marketing company. One of Enilon’s clients is none other than Sundance Square Management.
The plot thickens. More info as it becomes available.
UPDATE: There is some word that the [...]

I’m hearing that crews have installed a logo for the Cassidy, the long-rumored 22-story condo tower planned for the southeast corner of the intersection of 3rd & Throckmorton downtown. Could we be at long last nearing the start of the project?
Not much is known about the Cassidy, except that it’s a Bass family project, [...]

Fort Worthology reader Mark Rybczyk sends in this photo of the new Sovereign Bank being built on 7th Street as part of the West 7th development by Cypress Equities. The new Sovereign Bank has been designed by local firm Schwarz-Hanson (no relation to David M. Schwarz of Bass Hall/etc. fame), who also designed two [...]

I’ve taken you through the Pecan Place townhomes before, but with construction wrapping on a new phase of the project, I decided to take another look. This new phase is notably different from the previous parts of the development, both inside and out.

I know, I know. Why am I showing you photos of vacant lots? Well, these two vacant lots are the next phases of Trinity Bluff that are now getting underway. The photo above shows the bluffside location where Lincoln Property Company is building a series of townhome-style apartments. This 2.4 acre [...]

Here’s a real urban pioneer - this industrial building from 1926 on the long-beleaguered East Lancaster near downtown has been converted to residential loft apartments and is now leasing. The Lancaster Lofts have units ranging from 767 square feet to 1,000 square feet, with rents ranging between $700 and $900 per month. The [...]

There has been some confusion out there about the Omni Hotel’s recent topping out ceremony at 447 feet. The height of the building had been widely reported at 547 feet - this had always been my understanding. So what happened to the other 100 feet?
Omni didn’t actually drop 100 feet. The building [...]

The new Legal Aid of Northwest Texas building in the Pecan Place neighborhood (essentially being called the boundary between downtown and Uptown by the marketing types) has made impressive progress. As you can see, the building is topped out and facade work is currently underway. While most of the ground floor of the [...]

As noted yesterday, over around Texas Wesleyan the TownSite Company has acquired most of downtown Polytechnic Heights and is in the process of restoring the buildings there. Here are some photos I took of the restoration progress over the weekend. Looks to be a cool project.

The Carnegie, the new Sundance Square office building designed by David M. Schwarz, is nearing completion and tenant announcements are starting to be made. The Fort Worth Business Press reports that Comerica will join EOG Resources as a tenant:
As construction wraps up at The Carnegie building in downtown Fort Worth, Dallas-based Comerica Bank has [...]

Today’s update on Villa De Leon comes not from my camera, as is usually the case. See, though I dedicate as much time as possible to Fort Worthology, I also have various other things going on in my life - sleeping, eating, work, recreation time, that sort of thing. From time to time, [...]

As people return to urban areas, grocery stores are starting to come back to the central city in urban forms - just not in Fort Worth, thus far. In Minneapolis, Lund’s has announced plans for a 30,000 square foot store in the ground level of a new mixed-use development in downtown:
Lund Food Holdings Inc. [...]

Speaking of Camp Bowie & Merrick, here’s a rendering of the new office building being built by Clifton Capital at that intersection, which is replacing the now-demolished car wash that stood there previously:

InCap Fund just keeps buying up property in Fort Worth for urban infill projects. Their latest is the Taj Mahal Apartments, along Camp Bowie at Birchman & Merrick. The Fort Worth Business Press reports:
A well-known face is moving to the Camp Bowie neighborhood and it’s sure to turn a few heads. Dallas-based Incap [...]

Villa De Leon, the new luxury condo building currently rising on the Trinity Bluffs, has floorplans for viewing, and I thought I’d share them. The condos at Villa De Leon aren’t exactly cheap - they start at $786,000 - but they’ve certainly got some spectacular views and amenities. Click any of the floorplans [...]

XTO Energy continues their restoration of 714 Main to its original appearance - here, you see the building’s original facade, exposed after the removal of two modernizations.

Wagner Oil’s new Caceria Building is really looking like a gem. They’ve clearly spent a lot of time and money on the building’s beautiful detail work. The Caceria Building is a new mixed-use retail/office building.

Next door at 500 Commerce (also owned by Wagner Oil), the building’s ground floor renovations are nearly complete - [...]