Trinity Bluff – Lincoln Park, Villa de Leon Photos
The latest phases of the Trinity Bluff development in Uptown – the super-lux Villa de Leon condos, and Lincoln’s new rental developments Lincoln Park Townhomes and Lincoln Park Apartments – are pretty well finished, so here’s some fairly recent photos showing off their completed look & arrangement.
Of the three, we think we like the apartment [...]
TownePlace Suites at Trinity Bluff Progress
The TownPlace Suites at Trinity Bluff in Uptown has topped out and exterior wrap work is underway. The hotel will feature 140 rooms, tucked into a lot at Elm & Belknap next to the Palisades townhomes and Lincoln Trinity Bluff apartments. The hotel appears to basically be a suburban hotel turned 180 degrees from the [...]
Read more »Trinity Bluff TownPlace Suites Progress
Here’s a quick look at the TownPlace Suites hotel being built in the Trinity Bluff development. The hotel occupies the site that formerly held the long-running “Fried hicken” store. Work crews are up to the second floor of the structure, tucked in near the Belknap bridge next to the Lincoln Trinity Bluff apartments [...]
Read more »TownPlace Suites Hotel Development Underway At Trinity Bluff
The TownPlace Suites hotel on Samuels Avenue at Trinity Bluff is now underway, if the current state of the former “Fried hicken” store site is any indication. The new TownPlace Suites will be a 140-room four-story development, and is the product of Western International, who also built the Residence Inn in the SoSeven development [...]
Read more »Lawrence Halprin, Heritage Park Designer, Dies
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 [...]
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 »The Fort Worthology Show, Episode 5: Grab Bag
Just a grab bag of topics in this brief installment of our podcast: TRE Sunday service, Fort Worth’s track record with water features, Tokyo Cafe on Fort Worth Hole-in-the-Wall, Near Southside historic preservation progress, Garvey Mansion update.
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Lincoln Park at Trinity Bluff Update
Lincoln’s newest apartment development on the Samuels Avenue section of the Trinity Bluff development has made a lot of progress lately, and we also now have a name for the development: “Lincoln Park.”
It looks like Lincoln counts both the large apartment building and the townhomes across the street as “Lincoln Park,” so information about [...]
Villa de Leon Progress
Photo uploaded by Brian Luenser on Flickr.
Villa de Leon at Trinity Bluff has really come a long way, and our friend Brian recently headed out and took a couple of photos of the progress. With the scaffolding gone, we can now get a good look at the facade of the building.
Villa de Leon features [...]
Lincoln Trinity Bluff Apartments
Across the street from their new townhome development, Lincoln Properties is also building this large new apartment structure. As with the townhomes, rents haven’t been released yet, but the new development will have several hundred units with a parking garage buffering the residences from the train tracks to the east.
Spotted recently are the beginnings [...]

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