I’m hearing rumors that the Albertsons by TCU will be getting a heavy makeover, possibly a rebuild, that will feature underground parking, space for additional retail tenants, and 3-4 floors of office space on top.
Just a little rumor for you. Thanks to reader Jeff for forwarding me the tidbit!
I came to the Pacific Northwest a day early to tour the Fort Worth Central City - Trinity River scale hydrology model before its dismantling at the conclusion of testing later this year.
(Note from Kevin: The Fort Worth Central City Hydrology Model is a 40:1 scale model of the Trinity River after reconfiguration by the Trinity River Vision, which allows water flow testing of the bypass channel, town lake, and other aspects of the design. It is in Richmond, BC near the Vancouver Airport. Joel’s tour guide is Ken Christison of Northwest Hydraulic Consultants. The video is in two parts and hosted by Vimeo.)
Fort Worth Central City Hydrology Model tour - Pt 1 from Joel Burns on Vimeo.
Fort Worth Central City Hydrology Tour - Pt 2 from Joel Burns on Vimeo.
On to Seattle…
Joel Burns
(Note from Kevin: This post marks the beginning of a series of updates from District 9 City Councilman Joel Burns, sending us photos and perhaps even a little video from the Streetcar Study Committee’s trip to the Pacific Northwest to study the modern streetcar systems of Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma. I just want to thank Joel for taking the time from what will be a very busy few days to send us updates. You should be seeing Joel’s name under the post’s title each time he updates. And now, here’s Joel.)
Members of the Fort Worth Modern Streetcar Study Committee, along with the Mayor, seven Council members, a group of City planning staffers and other community leaders arrive in Seattle Thursday for the start of an intense two-day study tour of Pacific Northwest modern streetcar systems.
To date, the Study Committee has reviewed Fort Worth’s previous rail studies and the streetcar systems in peer cities, as well as conducted an preliminary assessment of cost and potential funding sources. The culmination of their Phase 1 tasks was to determine is a streetcar system is worth pursuing at this time. The answer to that question was a uniform “yes.”
The objective of this week’s fact-finding trip is to make first-hand observations of the systems in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington and Portland, Oregon and receive briefings from local experts in those cities so that Fort Worth stakeholders can assess the costs and benefits of a modern streetcar system, formulate the criteria for successful starter corridors, start to identify a funding strategy, and identify next steps for implementation.
2:30-5:50: Amtrak from Tacoma to Portland
A total of 47 participants will make the trip including the Mayor and 7 Council members, 12 Study Committee members; 10 City Planning staff; 5 member of the Greater Fort Worth Real Estate Council; 6 from other agencies such as The T, Downtown Fort Worth Inc., Tarrant County, and the North Texas Council of Governments; and a small group of consultants.
I would like to thank the Greater Fort Worth Real Estate Council for providing $10,000 to funding of this study trip. An additional $25,000 came from fundraising from Downtown Fort Worth, Inc, other agencies and individuals such as the participating consultants. I especially want to thank DFWI president Andy Taft, who chairs the Study Committee for his leadership of the Committee and helping to find the funding to pay for this trip. City staffers David Gaspers, Cinde Gilliland and Dana Burghdoff are also to be commended for all the work they did in preparation for this tour.
Lastly, I want to thank our friends at FortWorthology.com and WestandClear.com for allowing me to post updates from this study trip, focusing on what we learn along the way.
Cities across the country are looking to modern streetcars as forward-thinking future transportation solutions (see this post from earlier this week in Salt Lake City: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10564326).
I am excited about the prospect of bringing such a high-quality transit service to Fort Worth to provide circulation in our downtown and urban core, reduce automobile trips, and connect and integrate into a more comprehensive transportation system in North Texas that includes light and commuter rail. I am also excited about the potential to revitalize historic neighborhoods and create sustainable development that accompanies such streetcar systems.
More tomorrow from Seattle.
Councilmember Joel Burns,
City of Fort Worth, District 9
Fort Worth Streetcar Study Committee: http://www.fortworthgov.org/planninganddevelopment/misc.aspx?id=57270
The new campus commons at TCU seems more or less complete. The new residence halls are open, the green space is mostly finished apart from some minor landscaping details, and the new Brown-Lupton University Union has opened. The biggest activity at the site now is the construction of Scharbauer Hall on the site of the old Brown-Lupton Student Center at the east end of the commons, as seen in the photo above.
Aside from the new construction, the rest of the commons has really taken shape. It’s a beautiful space, with the large green space flanked by arcades in front of the residence halls and wings of the university union capped off by pergola-shaded outdoor dining areas. Here are a few photos of the new commons and the new Brown-Lupton University Union. Click any of them for a bigger view.
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 site.
One of the buildings on the property is shown here - though most of you probably won’t recognize it. Until very recently, the building wore the results of a terrible renovation from the ’60s or ’70s - covered in rough concrete panels and gold metal grates. There was little to suggest what lay underneath.
Well, TownSite’s been removing the concrete and metal, and has revealed the building’s original form - a classic red brick loft-style building that was once a Coca-Cola bottling plant.
TownSite’s Phillip Poole shared with me that the company is stripping the modernized facade off as they study the block’s potential for various uses through redevelopment. Phillip was also kind enough to send me these two photos he acquired showing the building during its previous life as the Coca-Cola plant.
Great to see this building getting a chance to be reborn after so much neglect. The potential is here on the Motheral site for a really great mixed-use development and I look forward to seeing more of TownSite’s plans. A big thank you to Phillip Poole for providing the historic photos and information on the project.
(Also a thank you to Eddie Vanston for letting me know that work had begun at the site!)
I’ve been noticing a new building rising on Rogers Road between Collinsworth and Riverfront (near University Park Village), and from the method of construction I figured it was a new apartment development. There hasn’t been any sort of information at the construction site as to what was going on, and I haven’t heard anything about it in the various development circles either.
Well, finally, I’ve got the scoop. The new development is called Gallery 1701, and it’s a new apartment development by none other than Lincoln Apartments. While the building’s not quite finished yet, the leasing office is open, so if you’re curious you can stop by 1701 Rogers Road and check it out. I’ll grab a construction shot soon.
The fine folks at the Fort Worth Business Press have been busy on the streetcar front lately - there are two new articles, one from Leslie Wimmer and one from John-Laurent Tronche. Leslie’s article reports on the latest news to come out of the city’s streetcar study committee. The group has settled on the modern Skoda cars like the ones used in Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle (an example of which can be seen in the above photo from Portland), and has been discussing routes. Townsite Co.’s Phillip Poole was one of the people who spoke to Leslie.
“We’ve isolated basically five or six routes that would start in the Downtown hub,” Poole said. At the meeting “we went over criteria such as how much density there is, where the development opportunities were, what routes would be the most economically viable in terms of both fares and which ones would create the most energy.
“One would go into the Medical District, one would go into the Cultural District, another route would come off of the one in Fort Worth South and go to Polytechnic either on Rosedale or on Lancaster, and one that would come, after the completion of the Trinity River Vision, to the North Side to the Stockyards,” Poole said. “The routes would come from the hub with radial arms that go out into where our urban villages are, where our big districts are: the Cultural District, Hospital District, Stockyards, and then one to Texas Wesleyan or the Lancaster Corridor.”
The group is also talking about color-coding the paint schemes of the streetcars to help identify their destinations.
One idea for the color aesthetic of the streetcars would be to create a color-coded system that goes along with signs in the city directing traffic to cultural areas, such as the green Cultural District signs, Poole said.
“My company designed a sign system in the districts, the Cultural District has green signs and Downtown has blue, and one thing we discussed would be for each of those lines to have a distinct color so the green line might go to the Cultural District,” Poole said. “The thing is that some of those cars would start in one loop and wind up in another, so you have to be careful if you color code not to cause confusion.”
The other article, by John-Laurent Tronche, takes a historical perspective on things. One of the people interviewed was North Texas Historic Transportation’s Andy Nold.
Streetcar proponents argue the transportation’s reintroduction could bring residents back to the central city and spur business growth around potential stops. Depressed areas once served by the streetcar but now cut off, such as Como, East Side and, to some extent, the Near Southside, also could accelerate redevelopment efforts.
“We once were a leader and now we’re playing catch-up,” Nold said.
A tip of the hat to The Recyclican, who noticed this Star-Telegram article by John Austin. XTO Energy is making plans for a new building at 7th & Calhoun, across the street from the historic Binyon O’Keefe warehouse they’re restoring.
The $38 million building would occupy the block bounded by Seventh, Jones, Calhoun and Eighth streets. In 2007, XTO bought the site, once considered for a 60-story tower, as a parking lot for employees who work in the former Binyon-O’Keefe warehouse.
Plans call for a subterranean floor for IT personnel, ground-floor offices topped with six levels of parking, then another floor of offices at what Brennan called the penthouse level.
Bob Ayers, a Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford principal, said the building would duplicate some of the architectural details of the nearby warehouse, using brick and cast-stone detailing.
In other words, it sounds like a structure very similar to 500 Commerce in Sundance Square. I look forward to hearing more about the building and seeing a rendering.
With the Weekly’s Best of 2008 issue now out and about, I must confess - this one puzzles me. Of all the new architecture in Fort Worth, Cantey Hangar Plaza is the best?
I get that the Weekly will never get David M. Schwarz, because they do tend to skew pretty modernist in their architecture critique. Which is fine - I’m more than happy to take up the slack in promoting traditional architecture. :) Though Schwarz’s new Carnegie Building in Sundance Square is turning out to be quite beautiful and is a great urban fabric building, and I’d be tempted to give the award to it. Anyway, putting aside that, I just can’t get behind Cantey Hangar as the recipient of any award.
The Weekly themselves describes the building as “confounding,” and as so confusing that “you’ll wonder where in hell the entrance is.” Both would seem to be points against the building in my point of view. Cantey Hangar’s not an especially bad building, but it’s not much of a contributor to the streetscape, either. It strikes me as dull as dishwater and completely unremarkable, though I do like the black bricks ringing its base. Its street interaction is basically the equivalent of the building going “meh.” There’s no real detail for the eye to enjoy as you pass by, and it’s not especially pleasant with its expanses of glass broken by plain concrete bands. I suppose it fits in between the just-short-of-cool 500 West 7th and the absolutely unredeemably terrible Burnett Plaza on either side of it, but I ask - why must new development around Burnett Park take the form of more concrete slabs? Inspiration ought to come instead from the gorgeous Electric Building, Neil P. Anderson Building, and U. S. Courthouse on the other side of the park. The area’s already overwhelmed with the deadening hand of modernism. Back in the ’60s, when 500 West 7th was the only modernist structure at the park and the Medical Arts Building was still standing, SOM’s office building would have been an interesting contrast. Now, Burnett Plaza smothers the place and traditional styles ought to be fighting back to retake the area from the concrete & glass boys.
But I digress. Another oddity - the Weekly remarks that Cantey Hangar has space for ground-level retail. I’m not sure that’s actually true - it was a subject of curiosity during the building’s construction and I never got a straight answer. If true, though, I find the next comment from the Weekly a little off-putting: “for what reason, we’ll never know.” I know the Weekly and I never see eye-to-eye on architecture, but I also know there are people there who know why urban buildings ought to have ground-level retail. There are plenty of reasons it should have ground-level retail from an urbanity standpoint.
So, yeah, Cantey Hangar seems an odd choice to me. Much better in my opinion is the Caceria Building, also a product of Gideon Toal (who designed Cantey Hangar), a beautiful little traditional-style structure nearly finished at 5th & Commerce. It faces the same problem as Schwarz’s buildings, though, in that the Weekly most likely wouldn’t go for its traditional design. If we’re limited to more modernist buildings, I’d have preferred to see the award go to One Museum Place at 7th & Bailey. One Museum Place is a lot more interesting to look at than Cantey Hangar, with its varied facades of glass, brick, and granite. It occupies a similarly odd-shaped lot but does so with more elegance and grace. And it’s got much better street interaction, with several friendly storefronts and a plaza out front.
Anthony? I know you’re reading this. Thoughts? :)
To be perfectly frank, I’m floored. Fort Worthology has won the Readers’ Choice award for Best Blog in Fort Worth in the new Fort Worth Weekly Best of 2008 issue.
We’re coming up on the second anniversary of Fort Worthology - the first post is from October 23rd, 2006. I’m really quite honored and grateful that in that time, this humble little architecture & urbanism nerdery revue I put on has become as big as it is. I am incredibly honored that you, the people who read this site, have spoken and given Fort Worthology the honor of this award. It means an awful lot to me, and I am truly, truly grateful.
Thank you.
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 office/retail building.
Looking down through the path between the two condos buildings towards the offices.
The other condo/retail building of phase one. These buildings sit over an underground parking structure.
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 stories (one story of concrete + four stories of wood framing).
On the project’s northeast block, the office building at 7th & Foch is getting some facade work done. Around it, another parking garage is rising, and the buildings that will house the fitness club, Lucky Strike Lanes, and Movie Tavern are being framed as well.
Across the street, the Sovereign Bank is making progress as well, with some facade and glass being installed.
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 now, and there’s also now an alcohol license notice in the corner retail space for Eddie V.’s Edgewater Grill.
Across the street, the Flatiron-style retail/office building is progressing nicely as well. Almost the entire slanted south side of the building is complete, and work on that side’s ground floor is going now as well. The building’s other two sides, which looked like some sort of black paneling in earlier renderings, are actually dark brick, as seen below in the photo of the building’s north side:
As more of Museum Place moves ahead, I still think it’s my favorite of the big three 7th Street developments. There are a lot of oddly-shaped blocks here and the project is filling them in interesting ways, and thus far I like the architecture of the project better than the other two. I look forward to seeing more progress on the project - roadwork and site prep continue on the rest of the project’s blocks.
Web site: museumplace.com
Condo sales web site: museumplaceliving.com
In celebration of the firm’s 30 year history, the portfolio of David M. Schwarz is now the subject of an online exhibition created by Dean Sakamoto Architects and sponsored by the National Building Museum, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, and the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. For People and Places: The Work of David M. Schwarz Architects is an examination of 30 Schwarz projects that have positively affected the built environment. Through videos, photos, and renderings, projects such as Bass Performance Hall, the Yale Environmental Sciences Center, the Chase Building, and more are explored, showing the ways in which Schwarz’s “liberal traditionalism” creates spaces and architecture which enhance the public realm.
For the further curious, there are a couple of books on Schwarz. Due for reprinting on October 25 is David M. Schwarz/Architectural Services which chronicles the firm’s built projects. The book was written by Bradford McKee with a preface by Vincent Scully and an introduction by Robert A. M. Stern. A new book, David M. Schwarz Architects: 2002–2008, by Robert L. Miller, is also out.
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:
Some interesting stuff in there. A Bass-planned grocery market is something I have not heard anything about before.
Still busy in House Remodelingland - today’s a big day, as my carpenters are cutting holes in two of the walls of the little Fairmount house I’m working on to install new windows. No new construction photos of various projects, alas - I expect things to become a bit more normal next week in terms of site updates. In the mean time, this Star-Telegram article by Sandra Baker caught my eye, talking about interest from national developers in the TRV’s Trinity Uptown in the wake of the cancellation of the Tarrant County College project. Here are some quotes:
J.D. Granger, executive director of the Trinity River Vision Authority, which is overseeing construction of Trinity Uptown, said in an interview that his office has received at least four serious inquiries in recent weeks, the Star-Telegram’s Sandra Baker reports.
Granger declined to name the developers, but said they are “people who do big water projects” and developers who would bring to Fort Worth the “type of money we haven’t seen here.”
Likewise, the Tarrant County College District, which controls about 47 acres in the project area, is getting calls from local and national developers interested in the land.
Toal told trustees that in the next couple of weeks, he will redraw the Trinity Uptown plans to remove the college campus. In its place, he said, he will add access roads to the riverfront and several pedestrian bridges, including near where TCC had planned to build a bridge to connect the south and north sides of the campus. The access roads would come from Northeast Fourth Street, north of the river.
The Town Lake will also likely be moved slightly and made smaller, not only to accommodate the loss of the campus but also the shifting of the bypass channel north of Fourth Street, he said. The bypass channel and the lake are part of the project’s flood-control measures.
I am looking forward to what will become of the land on the north side of the river that TCC owned. A large swath of it was going to be nothing more than surface parking anyway, so new developers will likely find better uses for it. And James Toal’s statement about including several pedestrian bridges over the river on the former TCC land is great as well, since with TCC’s implosion the planned bridge there was cancelled.
The big new developers who are getting interested in the TRV are intriguing - I would love to know what “big water projects” are being referenced. There is a lot of potential for a very cool urban waterfront environment thanks to the TRV, knitted together with quality infill on the interior land of the project.
My only concern at this point is what will become of the old TXU power plant on the north side of the river. TCC owns it, but I’m guessing they’ll probably unload it shortly. Problem is, it has no historic protection (like too many of our great buildings). The old power plant already saw the unfortunate loss of its smoke stacks, and it would be a great loss to lose the main building as well.
“Performance parking guru” Donald Shoup on the madness of minimum parking requirements, the boneheaded, backwards regulation used by many, many, many American cities that dictates the lowest number of off-street parking that a development must allow:
Every developer knows that cities’ minimum parking requirements are often the real limit to urban density. Minimum parking requirements often force developers to provide more parking than they would voluntarily provide, or smaller buildings than the zoning allows. Off-street parking requirements do not promote a walkable and sustainable city. Instead, off-street parking requirements promote a drivable and unsustainable city.
If West Hollywood or any other city waits until there is excellent public transit before it reduces its off-street parking requirements, most people will continue to drive everywhere, even if Santa Claus miraculously builds the transit system.
If planners insist that cities must have good public transit before they can reduce their off-street parking requirements for every land use, cities will never get good public transit. The smartest step cities can take is to convert all their minimum parking requirements into maximum parking limits, without changing any of the numbers.
Via the excellent Streetsblog.
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 feet of space.
The Fort Worth pub will be the second Delaney’s location in the Metroplex, joining the McKinney location, which offers a dim-lit, authentic Irish pub feel, said Kirk Williams, vice president of development for Dallas-based Cypress Equities, which is handling retail leasing for West 7th.
Another restaurant/bar announcement for a 7th Street development. How…not shocking at all. Again, as long as the physical form of the buildings is good, the ground-floor programming is less important. It will be interesting to see how many of West 7th’s sixteen trillion eateries and drinkeries survives the first year or two after opening - and which ones are left standing.
Ideally, I’d hope that the 7th Street developments create a new boom in the Cultural District for residential and such. We’ll see how it goes.
Nifty article in the Fort Worth Business Press about Downtown Fort Worth, Inc. getting Washington Post columnist Neil Peirce to come to town to advocate for the city’s streetcar efforts.
What better time for Downtown Fort Worth Inc. to recruit worldwide traveler and journalist Neal Peirce to speak to one poignant point at its regular organization meeting: whether it’s streetcars or light rail – Fort Worth needs something.
“American cities across the board are in need of addressing this growing epidemic of public transportation shortfalls,” said Neal Peirce, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. “Most of us are thinking about high fuel costs and an aging population that doesn’t want to drive, but there aren’t many of us lecturing on getting us ready for it.”
Nice bit of advocacy, this article. I’d just add that it’s about more than the “aging” part of the populace - there are a lot of people my age (I’m 26, for the record) that are strong supporters of the streetcar program and better transit in the city.
In other news, the Fairmount project rolls onward. I’ve moved my Internet access from my loft to the house and thus have been out of touch for a couple of days as I’ve been packing (as well as throwing out a lot of stuff to simplify things), and this condition will persist for a little while longer yet. Stay with me. I’m going to try and take the time to get some construction photos sometime this week.
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 was the headquarters that Amon Carter built for the paper and which has been the paper’s home ever since.
Over at sister site West and Clear, my colleague Steve-O wonders what this means for the paper (according to the S-T, they’ll keep a small downtown office for reporters and sales reps and move the rest of the staff to locations in the ‘burbs and Arlington, which is powerfully lame if I do say so myself). The S-T certainly looks to be in dire straits. Me, I’m wondering what this means for the building.
The Star-Telegram Building is not, to my knowledge, a protected historic structure. It could conceivably be demolished by the new owners. The building itself is an attractive structure marred by a series of remodelings that have seen the ground floor encased in concrete panels and the windows covered with ugly mirror tinting. It’s certainly not so far gone that it couldn’t be restored, though. Perhaps a good steward of downtown architecture like XTO Energy could purchase the building and restore it to its original Amon Carter-era glory. Or, perhaps somebody could purchase the building and convert it to residential use - the history and character of the building would make it a nifty loft apartment or condo building.
If you’ve noticed that things have been a bit quiet around these parts lately, the image above reveals the reason why. I haven’t had much time to devote to the site because I’m in the process of remodeling a home in Fairmount (the historic urban neighborhood just south of downtown Fort Worth, for those unfamiliar with it). Understandably, this has occupied a lot of my time and energy of late. (The photo above does not reflect current progress.)
Things will likely be a little pokey around here for a while longer as the remodeling consumes most of my free time. Apologies. I hope y’all will understand.
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 to the site, and ideally I was hoping to see the building demolished and replaced with a properly urban-designed building rather than the box behind a parking lot that sits there now (something to counteract the horrible suburban Schwarz-Hanson-designed medical office building that went up across the corner).
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 lobby that will take guests to the third floor of the building, where the hotel’s grand lobby will be located. Also on the ground floor will be an American grill themed restaurant that will occupy 6,000 square feet of space.
Williams said some of the planned retailers for the development include an upscale Mexican food restaurant and an Irish pub as well as a steak house and a Mediterranean café.
Got enough restaurants? How about some fargin’ retail?
That’s my biggest complaint with the 7th Street developments - about 99% of the ground-level tenants are restaurants. Would love to see some retail-type places make the move, but of course I have to remember my own advice: as long as the physical form is good, the ground-floor programming will eventually work itself out.
Just in time for Arts Goggle, Fort Worth South, Inc. has launched the all-new Near Southside web site at fortworthsouth.org. It is a big improvement over the old site, and it’s the work of local talent - none other than local marketing firm Starr Tincup created the site. Take some time to head on over and peruse the new site!
More good news for supporters of the TRV (like yours truly): the Army Corps of Engineers has given the project the go-ahead, and they can now start construction. Max Baker in the S-T has the story:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officially opened the funding floodgates for Trinity Uptown on Friday by signing a formal agreement that allows the federal agency to actually begin building the $576-million flood control and economic development project.
John Woodley, assistant secretary of the U.S. Army, flew in from Washington to sign the agreement and to praise Trinity Uptown as a project that successfully balances the Army Corps of Engineers’ mission of flood control with the community’s vision of rebuilding the inner-city.
Great news. It’s going to be fascinating watching the TRV come to fruition now that things are in motion (first the demolitions begin, and now this).