Posts under ‘Urban Residential’

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, [...]

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 [...]

My friend John Roberts, architect and creator of the great Architecture in Fort Worth web site, says the Omni’s got two more occupied floors and four mechanical floors left to go before it tops out. It is certainly starting to have a dramatic presence. Not much more to report, really, so just enjoy [...]

Trinity Terrace’s new City Tower is mostly complete - and apparently already sold out. Not much to say about this one, so just enjoy the photos. We’ll be seeing their third tower, called River Tower, rising near this location on 7th in the not-too-distant future, I believe.

SoSeven’s Shops & Lofts are making steady progress - one of the new buildings already has two levels of condos atop its ground-level retail space, and framing for the third should be rising shortly.

In the back of the property, they’re continuing with the construction of more blocks of townhomes.

When completed, they’ll look like these.

The Art [...]

At the West 7th development by Cypress Equities, things are moving right along as well. The development’s first structure, the parking garage shown above, has topped out. This garage, fortunately, will be concealed on one side with decorative facade work, will be surrounded on the other three sides by a mixed-use retail/apartment building, [...]

Museum Place has been making big progress. Above, you see One Museum Place, the development’s large mixed-use retail/office/condo building at the big University/Camp Bowie/7th/Bailey intersection. Lots of facade work is underway on the building at the moment.

Across 7th, the new Flatiron-style mixed-use retail/office building has topped out and facade prep is underway. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

So sayeth Fort Worthology’s friend, local architect John Roberts. It appears that they’ve just completed the 31st floor of the tower, which John says indicates that they’ve got two more occupied floors to go and four mechanical levels. Already, the Omni has been making a big impact on the downtown skyline.
In related news, [...]

The West 7th development is beginning to rise on more of its blocks. The first structure to go up, the parking garage seen in the photo above, has topped out, and now concrete columns are rising around it for what will be an apartment building with ground-level retail. On the next block to [...]

As I noted in a previous post, one of the items up for review by the Downtown Design Review Board this month was a proposal to light the top of the Texas & Pacific station/lofts. The proposed design would have seen the four domes at the roof’s corners and the parapet walls between them [...]

I’ve received these two new plans for the under-construction West 7th development by Cypress Equities in the Cultural District. The plan above shows the location of the already announced retail tenants in the development - it’s a little blurry, but you can see where the Movie Tavern, Lucky Strike, Fireside Pies, and the rest [...]

A note related to Museum Place - J & J’s Hideaway, the long-running bar between 7th & Darcy in the Cultural District, has closed. The Hideaway’s last night was last night - I was doing some photography around the Kimbell and could hear the celebration from the courtyard.
The Hideaway will be demolished soon as [...]

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 Omni Hotel by the Convention Center is steadily rising towards its final height. Now taller than the AT&T Building, the tower has seven more occupied floors to go, and then four mechanical floors - 11 more in total before the building tops out. A lot more glass is being added to the [...]

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 [...]

Like the other developments on 7th, the Shops & Lofts at So7 are steadily progressing. The first building is getting more stucco and windows installed. This building will be office space with ground-floor retail. The larger building on the left is up and out of its underground garage, and progressing towards moving [...]

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, [...]

Museum Place in the Cultural District is really making significant strides in construction these days. The area around the development is a world of torn-up pavement, orange cones, fences, and cranes as work steadily moves from the big 7th/University/Camp Bowie/Bailey intersection back into the neighborhood.
Above, the big building of the development, One Museum Place, [...]

Rumors are running around now that developer Tom Struhs, who is transforming the Bluff St./Samuels Avenue area with his huge Trinity Bluff development, has added another property to his portfolio. The famed convenience store across the street from the new Palisades townhomes, the one known by the broken sign reading “Fried hicken,” has been [...]

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 [...]