Two Interesting Downtown Design Review Board Items
We were perusing the agenda for today’s meeting of the city’s Downtown Design Review Board, and a couple of items under “New Cases” caught our eye. Here they are, as written on the agenda:
DG09-053
401 West Lancaster Avenue; Texas & Pacific Warehouse
Owner / Applicant: Cleopatra Investments, Ltd./Gromatzky, Dupree & Associates
Requests a Certificate of Appropriateness [...]
T&P Warehouse Project Going In Front Of Landmarks Commission
The long, long, long-awaited redevelopment of the Texas & Pacific Warehouse on Lancaster is going before the Historic & Cultural Landmarks Commission this month, seeking approval for changes to be made to the historic Art Deco structure. The list is as follows:
343 residential spaces on floors 2-8 with additional residential space on the roof [...]
Read more »Weekend Happenings: Michelangelo At The Kimbell
Not intended to be comprehensive, this is just a list of some stuff we’ve noticed for this weekend.
Undoubtedly, the big news is the public unveiling of the biggest news to come out of the Kimbell in some time: Michelangelo’s The Torment of Saint Anthony, the legendary artist’s earliest known painting and widely believed to [...]
City Of Fort Worth Issues Streetcar Design Request
Major news on the streetcar front. The City of Fort Worth has formally issued a Request for Qualifications, or RFQ, about the streetcar project. This means that the city is actively seeking a firm to do the finalized engineering & design work on the modern streetcar system, from track design and layout to [...]
Read more »Molly The Trolley Succeeds, Program Extended
Molly the Trolley, the new circulator project in Downtown, has succeeded beyond initial expectations. When the project first launched, we’re told that ridership of 50 per day was to be considered a success – instead, Molly’s been attracting 300+ riders per day, and monthly ridership is now over 10,000.
Thanks to the success of the [...]
Texas & Pacific Warehouse Redevelopment Update
The Star-Telegram is reporting that some activity has stirred on the Texas & Pacific Warehouse redevelopment project, one of the longest-awaited redevelopment efforts in the city.
Dallas-based Cleopatra Investments has filed architectural and engineering plans and a building permit application with the city. The documents offer the first peek at what the project entails and are [...]
Public Meetings On Tower 55 Solutions Today
Tower 55 is the busiest at-grade railroad intersection in the country, and it is located below the I.H. 30/I.H. 35W interchange between Downtown and the Near Southside. The average wait time for trains to travel through the rail intersection is 90 minutes.
The public is invited to learn about potential railroad and roadway improvements associated with [...]
Weekend Events At T&P Tavern
Our friends at the T&P Tavern, in the ground floor of the historic Texas & Pacific railroad station/lofts on Lancaster in Downtown, have passed along this weekend’s happenings at the Tavern:
Friday – Happy Hour, 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM. All Texas beers $2.75 (draft or bottled).
Saturday – Live music by Brad Thompson, 8:00 PM [...]
Scenes from the "Avenue of Light" Ceremony
Lancaster Avenue “Avenue of Light” Ceremony from Kevin Buchanan on Vimeo.
The official lighting ceremony for the “Avenue of Light” sculptures by Cliff Garten Studio on Lancaster Avenue in Downtown was finally held last night. We shot some video (with a humble Flip Mino HD) and took some photos of the festivities. Lancaster was [...]
Lighting Ceremony for the "Avenue of Light" Sculptures Tonight
Finally, after delays due to swine flu, the lighting ceremony for the “Avenue of Light” sculptures by Cliff Garten on Lancaster in Downtown is tonight! Below is the release from Fort Worth Public Art:
Colored lights will illuminate the night sky during a festive block party June 25 when the Avenue of Light on Lancaster [...]
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