Cowtown Diner Opening on the 11th
According to an ad in this issue of the Sundance Square Insider (PDF link), Cowtown Diner will be opening in the former La Madeleine space at 305 Main on the 11th. (Insert rant about the over-reliance on the “Cowtown” thing here.) Cowtown Diner will feature a gourmet deli/take out market serving salads, sandwiches, prepared entrees [...]
Read more »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 [...]
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 »Cowtown Diner Coming To Sundance Square
The Fort Worth Business Press is reporting that the former La Madeleine space in Sundance Square’s historic Plaza Hotel Building has been re-leased by a new restaurant, Cowtown Diner:
Cowtown Diner will operate from 5,100 square feet of leased space at 301 Main St. in downtown Fort Worth and will feature a gourmet deli/take out market [...]
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 [...]
Jarvis Building Restoration
More in Downtown restoration news – the Jarvis Building, the small Victorian structure between the Burk Burnett Building and the Sinclair Building on Main Street, is getting restored. Sundance Square (the owners) have embarked on a restoration of the building’s facade following the move-in of the i-Fort Worth visitor’s center on the ground floor [...]
Read more »Bass Family Buys Remaining Downtown Plaza Property
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No, you’re not seeing things – this is not a “best of” Fort Worthology, cobbled together to fill your Internet browsing time between your Twittering and searching for videos of kittens on Youtube – we’re back! Fort Worthology just spent a week in Portland, OR, and we’ll be writing a bit about [...]
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 »Rumormill: The Cassidy still in the works?
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We reported last year of some stirrings related to The Cassidy, the long-planned Sundance Square condo tower for the corner of 3rd & Throckmorton in Downtown. The work last year turned out to be related to the adjacent parking lot, but the word on the street is that the Cassidy may not [...]
Streetcar News Updates – $2 million in funds approved
While we’ve got streetcars on our minds, here’s some good news about the Fort Worth Streetcar project: the North Central Texas Council of Governments has approved using $1.6 million for a grant to the City of Fort Worth to fund a design consultant and study on the project. The city and The T [...]
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