Live Blogging From Tracks To The Future, Part One
Part Two – Keynote from Mayor Pat McCrory – is here.
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Photos From Tracks To The Future
This post will be used to share photos from the Tracks to the Future conference. Live text blogging will be in the post above this.
Read more »Tracks To The Future Conference Next Friday, Registration Deadline Monday
Just a reminder that the Tracks to the Future conference is next Friday (the 11th). Tracks to the Future is a conference being presented by the City of Fort Worth, Fort Worth South, Inc., and other members of a coalition of groups to discuss the importance and need for rail transit in the Metroplex, [...]
Read more »Streetcar News
A couple of items related to the modern streetcar project:
First, our friend Dan McGraw in the Fort Worth Weekly has a great article about the progress that’s been made of late on the streetcar project, and about how quickly things are falling into place. Check it out at the Weekly’s site.
In other streetcar news, [...]
Fort Worth Museum Of Science And History – Exclusive Photo Tour
Surely, a lot of people in Fort Worth have fond memories of the old Museum of Science and History. It’s where you could see caveman brain surgery, watch movies about volcanoes, and eat metric tons of astronaut ice cream. Undoubtedly, there were some misty eyes as the museum’s long-running home was demolished to [...]
Read more »Weekend Wrap-up, Odds & Ends
Above: a rare look inside the Fort Worthology blogging caves?
So, through no real intent beyond a strong desire to share cool things (perhaps compounded by some sort of acute blogging disease), we have apparently started updating Fort Worthology on the weekends as well. Since this is unusual to long-time readers, here’s a wrap-up [...]
Preferred Engineering Firm Chosen For Modern Streetcar Project
Update 11/16/2009 – Upon further discussion with sources close to the project, we have chosen to edit this post. The city has chosen a preferred engineering firm, but there are still things to be done to make it “official”-official. Given the nature of things like contracts, etc. we have decided that we should [...]
Read more »Modern Streetcar Update: Engineering Firm Being Selected, Design/Engineering Work Underway By December
When last we checked in with the Fort Worth modern streetcar project, the city had taken a major step forward and issued a Request for Qualifications to select an engineering firm to do detailed design and planning work on the project. Once a firm is selected, they’ll have 365 days to come up with [...]
Read more »Joe Frank Launching Mixed-Use Development On South Main, To Feature New Gallery Art Cafe, Farmer's Market
We’ve been hoping that we could write about this development, and now that the Business Press has mentioned it, we’ll drop some words on it as well.
Joe Frank, who has not only built several new bungalows in the Fairmount neighborhood but who also built the J. D. Moore mixed-use infill building at Henderson & Oleander, [...]
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 [...]
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