3rd Street Streetscape Public Meeting Report
Last night was the final public meeting for input on the proposed 3rd Street streetscape project in Downtown. The crowd gathered in the Downtown Central Library’s Chappel meeting room as representatives from Downtown Fort Worth, Inc. and HOK presented the final preferred option.
Combining elements of two earlier designs and redesigned a bit for cost [...]
New Photos of Hillside and The Depot
We’re planning a major update to our old Urban Living guide, with a complete redesign and update of the list. We need new photos for some developments, so we’ve been snapping some – here’s a sampling of photos of the Hillside Apartments development on the east edge of Downtown.
And here are some of Hillside’s [...]
Read more »Fort Worth presents radically improved bicycle plan, aims to triple bicycle travel by 2015
Last night at the Central Library in Downtown Fort Worth, the city showcased a draft of a radically altered and improved bicycle transportation plan called “Bike Fort Worth.” Aiming to replace the rather lacking 1999 bike route plan with a more robust and elaborate system, the city has been working for a year and [...]
Read more »Knights of Pythias Building Progress
While the actual redevelopment of the former Knights of Pythias Building in East Downtown hasn’t fully started yet (in the current economic climate, starting off a condo development isn’t especially practical in a lot of cases), developer TownSite isn’t just sitting around. A demolition permit has been filed for the small shotgun house behind [...]
Read more »New Park in East Downtown by Hillside and The Depot
In East Downtown, carved into a space by the railroad tracks and right across the street from the Hillside Apartments and The Depot Lofts is a new public park. The small park, which I’ll call “Depot Park” until I hear otherwise, features a red metal shade with a rather “railroad-y” feel to it, with [...]
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