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Bike Friendly Fort Worth Velocache_001 Found!

Written by Kevin Buchanan on February 25, 2010 - 4 Comments
Categories: Bicycles

We’ve heard via Twitter that reader KMuncie has found the Bike Friendly Fort Worth Velocache_001!  Congrats!  Tell us what you found – we’re curious what was in it.

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Bike Friendly Fort Worth Velocache_001 – Photo Clue 2

Written by Kevin Buchanan on February 25, 2010 - 3 Comments
Categories: Bicycles

We have received Clue #2 from our friends at Bike Friendly Fort Worth.
Below, you’ll find Clue #2 as to the location of Bike Friendly Fort Worth’s Velocache_001.  If you can recognize this spot after figuring out Clue #1 posted yesterday, we think you’ll be closer to uncovering the cache.

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Bike Friendly Fort Worth Velocache_001

Written by Kevin Buchanan on February 24, 2010 - 10 Comments
Categories: Bicycles

We are pleased to announce that Bike Friendly Fort Worth Velocache_001 is up and running!
“Bike Friendly Fort Worth Velocache_001 is now in play.
The Rules:
1. Get out of the car, and get onto a bike.
2 .The cache is on public property.
3. You will not have to dig, break, or climb anything,
4. The cache is very [...]

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Photos from the Fort Worth South Banquet

Written by Kevin Buchanan on February 24, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: Architecture & Urban Design, Bicycles, Transit & Infrastructure, Urban Development

Last night, at the beautiful Masonic Temple, Fort Worth South, Inc. held its latest annual banquet celebrating the ongoing continued success of the Near Southside’s revitalization.  Fort Worth South president Paul Paine gave a stirring presentation on the accomplishments in the Near Southside thus far, and several upcoming projects and developments.
In the photos above, you [...]

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Haiti Benefit Concert March 27th in Near Southside

Written by Kevin Buchanan on January 29, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: General

There’s going to be a big benefit concert for Haiti in the Near Southside on March 27th.  To be held at Magnolia Green Park, Fort Worth Sings for Haiti will donate 100% of all money raised to Haitian relief efforts via Doctors Without Borders.
The artist lineup is being finalized, and will concentrate on Fort Worth-local [...]

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A Walk through the Fort Worth Police and Firefighters Memorial

Written by Kevin Buchanan on January 12, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: Architecture & Urban Design

We recently took a stroll through Trinity Park (the part up by 7th Street) and visited the new Fort Worth Police and Firefighters Memorial.  The memorial turned out to be more elaborate than we thought – up near the entrance on Stayton/Museum Way, there is a small plaza and monument (there is also a lot [...]

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West Leuda Park Progress

Written by Kevin Buchanan on January 8, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: Architecture & Urban Design

The new West Leuda Park, the first brand-new public park in center city Fort Worth in decades, is starting to shape up nicely.  The park, on partial blocks bounded by Leuda, St. Louis, Cannon, and Jennings, has streetlights and partial pouring of its paths.  Work is also underway on the central pavilion and playground.
West Leuda Park marks [...]

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West Leuda Park Update

Written by Kevin Buchanan on November 18, 2009 - 1 Comment
Categories: Architecture & Urban Design, Urban Development

The new public park being built in the Near Southside’s Leuda-May neighborhood on an assemblage of land around Jennings, Leuda, St. Louis, and Cannon is starting to look more like a park. Paths are being poured and streetlights have gone up. West Leuda Park is said to be the first new public park [...]

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Lawrence Halprin, Heritage Park Designer, Dies

Written by Kevin Buchanan on October 28, 2009 - 4 Comments
Categories: Architecture & Urban Design, Preservation

Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, one of the most creative voices in designing urban public space, passed away on Sunday at his home in California at the age of 93 from complications from a fall.
Halprin was a prolific designer, and created some of the most unique modernist public spaces in the United States. He studied [...]

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Tonight's First Friday On The Green Cancelled

Written by Kevin Buchanan on September 4, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: General

We have just heard from Fort Worth South, Inc. that tonight’s scheduled First Friday on the Green, which was to have featured Dove Hunter with The Orbans and Luke Wade, has been cancelled due to the weather. Magnolia Green Park is already wet from the earlier rain, and with more rain forecast tonight it [...]

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