West 7th Grand Opening
At last night’s West 7th Spring Bash, Mayor Moncrief and representatives of developer Cypress Equities were on hand to officially cut the ribbon on the big new mixed-use development. Prior to the ribbon cutting, Mayor Moncrief spoke about the development, reiterating several of the points from his State of the City address – that Fort [...]
Read more »West 7th Spring Bash Tonight
Just a reminder that the Spring Bash at the West 7th development is tonight from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. There will be a ribbon cutting for the development, a performance by the band Reckless Kelly, a beer garden, and more. It will be held on Crockett between the two loft/retail buildings. The event benefits [...]
Read more »So7 Sidewalk Improvements Continue
The So7 development continues to do major sidewalk improvements. The development is adding new sidewalks and widening existing ones throughout its property, to create a much more fully integrated pedestrian experience. One of the most important for pedestrian quality and safety are the new full sidewalk crossings at the rail line running between the Stayton [...]
Read more »The Stayton – Progress
The Stayton, in the So7 development, continues its rise from its underground parking pit on its way to its eventual 11-story height. The three-tower retirement condo complex is making steady progress upwards – at this rate, it won’t be that long before we start to see it poke its way up above ground.
Read more »Terra Mediterranean Grill Open This Week
The newest eatery in the West 7th development is opening this week. Terra Mediterranean Grill, the newest offering from the Chanaa family, has been chatting up their opening this week on their Twitter feed, and the Star-Telegram’s great Eats Beat man himself, Bud Kennedy, also mentioned the opening:
Now, the next major opening in the West [...]
West 7th Spring Bash – Thursday, March 4
Cypress Equities has passed along an invite for Fort Worthology readers to attend the upcoming “West 7th Spring Bash,” celebrating the official opening of their West 7th development in the Cultural District. The West 7th Spring Bash benefits Cook Children’s by donating a percentage of sales from concessions and participating retailers and restaurants.
The West 7th [...]
Massad House Moved
The Massad House, a large home-turned-office-space that had lived on W. 7th Street for years, has been relocated to its new home on Montgomery Street near the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the Fort Worth Community Arts Center. The home was moved this past Saturday, transported in one piece. These photos of [...]
Read more »Bike Friendly Fort Worth Ride to City Hall
As we’ve noted before, this Tuesday the City Council will vote whether to adopt the ambitious Bike Fort Worth plan for creating a real on-and-off-street bicycle transportation network throughout the city of Fort Worth.
Of late, bike efforts in Dallas have been aided by the actions of a group of bike & urbanism advocates from Oak [...]
Yofé Fresh Fruit & Yogurt Cafe Now Open
We finally had the chance to check out Yofé Fresh Fruit & Yogurt Cafe, freshly opened in the ground floor of one of the buildings of the West 7th mixed-use development.
One of the complaints about the Cultural District’s mixed-use developments is that their ground-floor tenants are almost all national chains or Dallas-based outfits. There’s a [...]
West 7th and the Importance of Place
The always-interesting Dallas urbanism blog Car Free in Big D did a story looking out west at one of our own urban infill areas, the 7th Street corridor, and has some great insight into what makes some of these developments more successful in creating a meaningful urban space than others. In short, the West 7th [...]
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