Downtown Fort Worth

DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH

Fort Worth, Texas. Home of Tandy Radio Shack, American Airlines and Pier One Imports, located in a town with no ports and no piers. A shortcoming soon to rectified with the building of a lake with canals. Fort Worth is a town with pretensions of culture so highly developed an entire district was created just to contain it. But we aren't going to go into the Cultural District or to the Stockyards in this look at Fort Worth. We are going to stay in the Downtown area, the location of one of the most notorious high crime Red Light Districts of a different type culture, the infamous Hell's Half Acre, home to Butch and Sundance and thousands of cowboys on their days off from working the Chisholm Trail. Those days are long gone, well, maybe not long gone, but gone for a couple decades at least, Downtown Fort Worth has been revitalized from its troubled past with a shopping / restaurant / nightclub zone called Sundance Square which has made other towns near and far Green with Envy. A large flying saucer landed a few years back, as you shall see, in the area that was Hell's Half Acre.

2008 Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival
10am - 10pm Thursday April 17
10am - 11pm April 18 & 19
10am - 8pm Sunday April 20
The Festival is Free
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Looking west across miles of open prairie land towards the 'skyline' of downtown Fort Worth.

For a more scenic look at the wild prairies of east Fort Worth we hiked Tandy Hills Park on New Year's Day to get an up close look at the United State's largest expanse of wilderness located so close to the downtown of a major American city.

Photo taken from the Trinity Trails looking south at the Main Street Bridge on the left and the Tarrant County Courthouse towered over by a pair of nondescript skyscrapers in downtown Fort Worth.

The Tarrant County Courthouse building sticking up above the trees. Looking across the Trinity River at beautiful downtown Fort Worth, known far and wide for making cities near and far Green with Envy due to its total fabulousness. We are on the Trinity Trails in this photo. That is the Main Street Bridge on the left.

AS OF JANUARY 1, 2008 DURANGO TEXAS IS BLOGGING

North of downtown Fort Worth, reflections of the I-35W bridge over the Trinity River.

If you continue north from the location in the previous photo in a couple miles you will come to this location on the Trinity River Trail, looking at the reflection in the Trinity River of the I-35W Bridge. It is often windy when one pedals the Trinity Trail, but on this late summer day the winds were calm and the reflection was smooth making quite a beautiful scene.

The sign for the world's shortest subway in downtown Fort Worth. It no longer exists.

Note: The Tandy Subway is no more. Replaced by the new Radio Shack Corporate Headquarters which is a beautiful cluster of new buildings.

At a time not long ago Fort Worth had the world's shortest subway, a free ride via rickety rail through a tunnel into the now closed Tandy Center in downtown Fort Worth. A convenient, albeit slightly clunky mass transit system, sort of a very apt metaphor for the difference between Dallas and Fort Worth. Dallas has a modern high speed rail system called DART. Fort Worth does not have a high speed rail system. Well, there is the new TRE Train that runs between FW and Dallas a couple times a day. Not many ride it. And there are those old trolleys that Fort Worth bought from some city in Australia which run from Downtown to the Cultural District to the Stockyards.

Visiting the Fort Worth area? Here's a list of some of our favorite restaurants in the D/FW area.

One of the now gone downtown Fort Worth Tandy Subway trains making its mile long journey to the heart of downtown Fort Worth.

Here comes the former Tandy subway now. The entire line was at least a mile long. Maybe two. Now relegated to history. Maybe a Texas State Historical sign will soon mark the spot.

Here we see a billboard touting the Free Tandy Center Subway years after the downtown Fort Worth subway ceased to exist.

On the right in this photo we see a billboard all these years after its demise, touting the 'Free Subway' to Tandy Center. Neither of which is still in existence. We also see in this photo a view of the new Radio Shack Corporate Headquarters, the cluster of buildings for which the world's shortest subway was sacrificed and hundreds of citizens were forced out of their homes in yet one more incident of eminent domain abuse in Texas, the #1 worst example of such abuse until it was replaced at #1 by the Dallas Cowboys.

A look under downtown Fort Worth's Main Street Bridge at the new Radio Shack Headquarters.

Another look at the new Radio Shack Headquarters, looking under the Main Street Bridge over the Trinity River---in the background we can see the new Pier 1 Imports Corporate Headquarters. Sadly, both businesses are having a hard time of it, laying off people, closing stores and having to rent out space in their new buildings to try and help the faltering bottom-line. Pier 1 even had to turn off the beacon of light that made the building look so nice at night.

Looking at Pier One Headquarters from downtown Fort Worth's Radio Shack's Headquarters.

Looking at the new Pier One Corporate Headquarters while standing on the campus of the new Radio Shack Corporate Headquarters.

A Welcome to the Holidays sign at Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth.

click to view photos of downtown Fort Worth taken at noon on November 25th, the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year....

This Sundance Square "Welcome to the Holidays!" sign says "the most exciting downtown in Texas is also the brightest." A few months ago a Texas magazine had an article that compared Texas downtowns and claimed Fort Worth's downtown was the most exciting. It is not known if the writer had been to San Antonio. The Fort Worth local press made a big deal about this 'exciting' description, including one editorial which declared Dallas was "green with envy". How a city can be green with envy was not explained. Nor was it explained how this conclusion was reached. We have long noted that downtown Fort Worth, to our eyes, does not seem all that exciting, at least compared to other downtowns we've visited. At times downtown Fort Worth appears virtually deserted. For example, on the busiest shopping day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving, downtown Fort Worth is not busy. Which is no surprise due to the fact that Fort Worth is the only American downtown in a city of over a half million which does not have a single department store. No Nordstroms, no Macys, no Neiman Marcus, not a single large store.

A letter to the Editor in the January 16, 2008 Fort Worth Star-Telegram said in part, "My experience has been mixed. Downtown Fort Worth has no grocery store, no liquor store, no department store---all necessary components for a satisfying life as a townie." The writer goes on to explain why he is moving from downtown Fort Worth to downtown Dallas saying "In downtown Dallas, no more than a few blocks walk will get you a supermarket, post office, pharmacy, convenience store, department store, liquor store, world-class restaurants and cultural attractions. It is a bit of midtown Manhattan without the price."

Eyes on Texas note: Fort Worth is the only city in America with a population over 500,000 without a department store or grocery store in its downtown area.

The restored Cash America building and the new Pier One headquarters at the west end of downtown Fort Worth.

A look at part of Fort Worth's new downtown, part tornado caused urban renewal, part corporate headquarter upgrades. Here we see the formerly tornado damaged Cash America building on the right. On the left the new Headquarters for Pier One Imports. And in the middle you can see the former tornado damaged Bank One building, no longer a bank with a restaurant at the top, it is now a condo residential tower. If we were able to see what is to the left of the Pier One building we would see the new headquarters for Radio Shack. We will try to get a photo of that soon.

A closer look at the new Cash America building and Pier One's new corporate headquarters on the west side of downtown Fort Worth.

A closer look at the 'new' Cash America building on the left and Pier One Import's new corporate headquarters in the middle.

The Tower. The restored tornado damaged former Bank One building in downtown Fort Worth.

The new Tower, formerly known as the Tin Can Tower and before that it was the Plywood Skyscraper and before that, before a tornado severely damaged it, the Tower was known as the Bank One Building. The Tower's major facelift has turned it, arguably, into Fort Worth's most attractive skyscraper, admittedly a narrow field of competition since Fort Worth has the fewest skyscrapers of any city in America with a population over a half million.

from the November 28, 2007 Static column in FW Weekly...

The Houston Architecture Forum recently posted a thread (�The Most Overshadowed City in America�) asking members what they thought of Fort Worth. The Space City conclusion: Fort Worth�s kind of blah � not well known for much of anything even in Texas and now pretty much a suburb of Dallas. �FW is FW�s biggest problem,� wrote one member about the obsession with Dallas. Others said they disliked the �slow pace� and someone said that �downtown was cute, but I would hardly call it cosmopolitan or big city ... everything seems vanilla and [has] no real soul.�

A flattering view of the Fort Worth Convention Center.

Looking more like a prison than a place where one might want to schedule a large get together, the Fort Worth Convention Center sits secured behind

a barbed wire fence. Very few conventions seem to take place in the Fort Worth Convention Center, which may be one reason why it took a long time, a lot of effort and a big subsidy from the city to get someone willing to build a Convention Center hotel. The OMNI Convention Center Hotel is now under construction. Meanwhile up in Grapevine the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center has plans to add a couple hundred more rooms. While across the street from the Gaylord Texan, Great Wolf Lodge will open in a few months with an indoor water park. The owners apparently felt the Grapevine market could support another large resort and did not need the town of Grapevine to subsidize the project.

AS OF JANUARY 1, 2008 DURANGO TEXAS IS BLOGGING

A photo of the waiting to be fixed Lancaster Avenue at the south end of downtown Fort Worth.

Here we see the view to the south of the Fort Worth Convention Center. This is Lancaster Avenue. Interstate 30 previously towered over Lancaster Avenue, but the freeway was re-located slightly to the south a few year's ago. Talk of re-developing Lancaster Avenue into something attractive so far has seen no results. Likely not a big selling point to bookers of conventions or hotel builders.

The Mixmaster I-30/I-35W exchange on the east side of downtown Fort Worth, 11 years in the making.

A view of part of the re-built Interstate 30 intersection with Interstate 35W known as the Mixmaster, looking from the east side of the Fort Worth Convention Center across yet more barbed wire fencing. The Mixmaster took 11 years to build. Road construction seems to go slow in Texas. Other things seem to get built at hyperspeed, the new Dallas Cowboy Stadium, for example.

Fort Worth
� The Mixmaster: Construction of a new Interstate 30/Interstate 35W interchange, including rerouting 2.5 miles of I-30.
� Estimated cost: $167 million . Groundbreaking: 1993. Completion: 2004

Boston
� The Big Dig: Construction of 7.5 miles of roads, bridges and tunnels routing Interstates 93 and 90 through downtown and under Boston Harbor.
� Estimated cost: $13.6 billion . Groundbreaking: 1991. Completion: 2004

A pimped up ride sporting the U.S. flag by downtown Fort Worth's Convention Center.

This vehicle was seen driving by the Fort Worth Convention Center the same day the above three photos were taken. It somehow would have seemed more appropriate, maybe, if a Texas flagged had been waving, rather than the American flag.

New Man in Fort Worth

New in August of 2002, Briefcase Man made his appearance on the skyline of downtown Fort Worth. A more fitting symbol would seem to be Cowboy Man with cowboy hat and a lasso. But there have probably been a few men in downtown Fort Worth, over the years, carrying a briefcase, but likely far more sporting a swagger and wearing a Stetson. You can find Briefcase Man in Burnett Park, located at Lamar and 7th Street.

Looking at downtown Fort Worth towards the southwest.

An unusual view of the unique Fort Worth skyline, we are looking southwest in this view, standing near what is now Trinity Bluffs and the under controversial construction Tarrant County Community College downtown campus. Standing dwarfed between the two blue towers is the building formerly known as the Bank One Building, which was the building's name before a tornado eventually caused it to become the Plywood Skyscraper and eventually, after grave concerns arose over a plywood-caused possible towering inferno, the wood become metal and the former Bank One Building became the Tin Can Tower. In this photo you can see a forlorn-looking lonely Lone Star Flag wave in front of the Tin Can Tower. It is not known what purpose the pile of rubble serves for the downtown Fort Worth landscape. It may be some sort of art work...

SHOCKING UPDATE: Fort Worth's Heritage Park has become
Fort Worth's Lost Heritage Park.
See what has happened to the Park and to the Heritage Trail.

The brick paved path to Heritage Park at the north side of downtown Fort Worth.

San Francisco has Lombard Street. The closest like thing in Fort Worth is this red brick paved Lombard-like trail that leads to Heritage Park, the site of the original Fort Worth, overlooking the Trinity River just across from the Tarrant County Courthouse. This is worth finding if you've not seen it. As was Heritage Park before the city decided to put chain link fenced and a park closed sign up..

This photo shows a trio of temporary dwellers at Hertiage Park in downtown Fort Worth near the courthouse.

A trio of temporary residents at their home in Heritage Park. There's a hotel space shortage in Downtown Fort Worth or they'd likely be staying elsewhere... maybe they have a court date at the courthouse across the street.

The view from downtown Fort Worth's Heritage Park of the Trinity River and the location of the Trinity River Vision and Town Lake.

The view from the overlook at Heritage Park, looking north towards the Stockyards. The body of water is the Trinity River. That is a jogging/bike path along side the river. There are many miles of riverside paths in Fort Worth. The building on the right is a power plant, one of many reasons Texas has no California-like power shortage. Yet. There are bizarre plans afoot called the Trinity River Vision, to turn the area you see here into what they are calling Town Lake, along with a flood diversion channel and canals. This will turn Fort Worth, according to local civic propagandists, into the Vancouver of the South. It is not known if anyone from Fort Worth has actually been to Vancouver.

The soon to be gone Tarrant County Courthouse Annex in downtown Fort Worth.

The Tarrant County Courthouse. There are many very ornate courthouses in Texas. Tarrant County would be one of the best if it weren't for the bizarre Annex the county built right next to the original courthouse. To save money the Annex is painted to look like an ornate courthouse. The entire building is one giant mural with fake 3-D effects that only reveal themselves when you are about 30 feet away. Does the word 'tacky' come to mind?

Great News! The Annex Building Eyesore is coming down! The Tarrant County Courthouse is going to be restored to its former glory, complete with landscaping and grass!

Another view of Fort Worth's Tarrant County Courthouse and its soon to be gone Annex.

Here we see another view, months after it was announced that the much maligned Tarrant County Courthouse Annex would be demolished, and yet it still stands. It is no longer in use though, so the day draws closer when the Courthouse Square returns to its pre-Annex glory.

Looking north up Main Street at the Tarrant County Courthouse in downtown Fort Worth.

A much better view of the Tarrant County Courthouse as it is meant to be seen, with the Annex blocked from view. We are looking north down Main Street here.

A pair of young ladies enjoying the lunch time sun in Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth.

We're at Sundance Square now. And it's lunch time, as we can see, with these ladies enjoying the ambience with a little al fresco dining. Newcomers to Fort Worth may be confused by Sundance Square, expecting some sort of downtown plaza common to many large cities. However, Sundance Square basically is a series of parking lots surrounded by a small downtown area with some restaurants, stores (no large department store) and a performance hall. There is currently a proposal to turn Sundance Square from its current parking lot status into being an actual downtown Plaza. As of June of 2004 the proposed Plaza is being blocked by one parking lot owner who does not want to give up his parking lot.

Etta's Place, where Butch and Sundance hooked up with her in Hell's Half Acre.

Butch and Sundance hooked up with Etta Place in Fort Worth at an Inn she operated in Hell's Half Acre. The word 'Inn' may be candy coating the actual nature of Etta's establishment. You can stay at a current version of Etta's Place. But Etta hasn't been seen for about 100 years.

At the center of the parking lots known as Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth is a mural depicting the Chisholm Trail.

The centerpiece of Sundance Square. A giant Longhorn mural celebrating Fort Worth and the Chisholm Trail.

Q: We are now home from our first trip to Dallas/Fort Worth. When we were at downtown Fort Worth we saw signs pointing to Sundance Square. We walked all over downtown but found no Square. We asked a couple people where Sundance Square was and they told us we were there. But there was no Square. Can you explain?

A: We have been asked the same thing by visitors. Basically there is no Square in the usual sense of the word. Sundance Square is pretty much several parking lots downtown surrounded by restaurants, theaters and other businesses. Apparently a couple decades ago downtown Fort Worth was pretty much a run-down ghost town with a high crime rate. Sundance Square was part of a downtown renewal that included a convention center at the other end of downtown, where Hell's Half Acre was. There has been some talk of turning Sundance Square in a real Town Square, but so far it remains several parking lots with usual downtown type businesses surrounding the parking lots.

Topiary in the form of a longhorn in Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth.

Cows are sacred in India. Longhorns are similarly treated in Texas and no more so than in Fort Worth as you can see in this nicely done topiary.

A photo of the libation resupply of the Flying Saucer Emporium in downtown Fort Worth's Sundance Square.

There are some elements of current day Downtown Fort Worth which mirror the days of Hell's Half Acre. The consumption of libations being one. Here we see the daily re-supply by multiple vendors underway at one of the Sundance Square libation providers. That being the Flying Saucer Emporium..

The former Caravan of Dreams, now the Reata in downtown Fort Worth.

Speaking of libation suppliers. Here we see the Caravan of Dreams, formerly a big nightclub at Sundance Square, now taken over by the Reata Restaurant after the Fort Worth tornado turned its location into the World's Biggest Plywood Skyscraper.

A photo of a mounted policeman. Downtown Fort Worth has cops on bikes as well.

Downtown Fort Worth is heavily policed, mostly on bikes, with a few horses. It is a very safe feeling downtown.

Bass Performance Hall located at Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth.

The Bass family, noted Fort Worth philanthropists, with a fortune based on many interests, with rumors of their wealthy start coming from the infamous Sam Bass Gang. Here we see the Bass Performance Hall, a place for symphonies, operas, plays and other such cultural activities. It is not known why this was built at Sundance Square and not in the Cultural District. In Texas, more it seems than elsewhere, if you donate money for a public project you get naming rights. Obviously Mr. and Mrs. Bass had no qualms about naming this the Nancy and Perry Bass Performance Hall. After themselves.

A photo of a cowboy hat store in downtown Fort Worth.

To be more like a native Texan this Downtown Fort Worth business can supply your most necessary accoutrement, that being a well-fitted cowboy hat.

A window washer on a downtown Fort Worth skyscraper.

Would you want to be a window washer on a high rise in a town with heavy winds and tornadoes?

Looking south on Main Street to the flying saucer shaped part of the Fort Worth Convention Center.

At the end of Main Street opposite the Tarrant County Courthouse, first time visitors to Downtown Fort Worth may be startled to see what looks like a giant flying saucer blocking the way south. But, a UFO it is not. It is the Fort Worth Convention Center, a very outdated badly designed example of 60's style modern architecture. The convention center is being remodeled in an attempt to stop scaring away conventions. It is believed that the remodeling has completed two of its 3 phases. It is not known how many decades the upgrade will take til completion.

A street preacher testifying to his flock in downtown Fort Worth.

On the way to the Convention Center we pass this street preaching eccentric, screaming the gospel to an empty street. Texan eccentrics are very colorful.

Another view of the Fort Worth Convention Center in downtown Fort Worth.

Close-up the Convention Center doesn't look so much like a space vehicle. The Convention Center was part of a revitalization project to finally clean up the remnants of Hell's Half Acre, the most notorious action took place in this area, not the current Sundance Square zone.

The Water Gardens south of the Convention Center in downtown Fort Worth. This photo shows the location where 4 conventioneers drowned.

Directly south of the Convention Center is what may be Downtown Fort Worth's most impressive attraction. The Water Gardens. Designed by Phillip Johnson, they've been used as scenery in movies, like Logan's Run. The Water Gardens is a large area with several fountains and pools of various sorts. The Water Gardens has undergone a safety upgrade after 4 visitors drowned in the pool you see here. It is now supposedly significantly safer.

Another part of the Water Gardens in downtown Fort Worth.

Like a Mayan or Aztec Temple, this part of the Water Gardens gives a cliff-like view of the park to the above visitor. She did not appear to be suffering from acrophobia.

Another homeless person. This one's temporary home is a shaded part of the Water Gardens in downtown Fort Worth.

Let's end our visit to Downtown Fort Worth with a look at another temporary Downtown Fort Worth resident making the Water Gardens his current home. The mayor of Fort Worth recently took a task force to Los Angeles, Seattle and Denver to see how those cities handled their homeless population. So far the successful programs they witnessed in Seattle and Denver have not been implemented in Fort Worth. And Heritage Park has been fenced off and closed partly due to so many homeless people taking up residence there.

Let's go to the Stockyards and see some Cowboys and Longhorns...

We hope the walk around Downtown Fort Worth didn't tire you too much

March 14, 2008

Public Improvement District Budget News

Budget

The PID Budget committee has approved the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 budgets. These recommendations will be forwarded to the DFWI Board of Directors and the PID Advisory Board for review. If approved, they will be sent to the City for the appropriate public hearings. 2009-2010 will be the first year of the new district, which is proposed to terminate in 2029.

Operation Grackle

In other PID news, DFWI has engaged Nighthawk Bird Control to help with Operation Grackle. This contract was made possible due to a Fort Worth-championed change in Department of Interior guidelines restricting the hiring of falconers for migratory bird depredation. Many thanks to Mayor Mike Moncrief and Kay Granger's staff for their support of this rule change.

New Trees Planted

The PID planted 12 new Schumard Oak trees on Main Street. Trees were added in new locations and those lost to disease or damage were replaced.

JFK Sculpture

Many readers will remember an effort a few years ago to raise funds for a John F. Kennedy sculpture, commemorating the memory of his Presidency, his overnight stay in Fort Worth and his morning speech made in front of the (now Hilton) hotel before his assassination. Half of the needed funds were raised and, following a recommendation in the downtown art plan, an initiative to complete the sculpture has begun. DFWI member and downtown resident Henry Borbolla is leading the $100,000 fundraising effort. If you are interested in this project, contact Henry at (817) 735-0965 or Henry.Borbolla@compassbank.com.

DFWI New Member Drive Underway

DFWI's Stacey Pierce is tireless in her efforts to recruit new members. If you are interested in membership or know of someone who should be invited to become a member of DFWI, please contact Stacey @ stacey@dfwi.org.

Streams & Valleys

Our friends at Streams & Valleys have scheduled canoe and kayak lessons on the Trinity River from May - September. Download the S&V sign up form here.

Go Green to Colonial - if you check in first and walk or cycle the Trinity Trail to the Colonial Golf Tournament, S&V will receive a $10 donation for each trail user entering he gates. Check their web site for details as the event nears.

Affordable Housing

The Fort Worth Housing Authority has added 32 new affordable housing units near downtown. Income restrictions apply. Those interested in living in a new apartment close to work and the amenities of downtown should call (817) 348-9775.

DFWI Annual Meeting

The DFWI Annual Meeting and Trailblazer Award Ceremony will be April 24. Save the Date cards should already have been received and invitations will go out in late March. The Trailblazer Awards recognize excellence in downtown development and the fulfillment of the vision of downtown Fort Worth as a vibrant 24 hour city.

What: DFWI Annual Meeting

and Trailblazer Awards

Date: April 24, 2008

Where: RenaissanceWorthington Hotel

Info: becky@dfwi.org

Gas Drilling Downtown

Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives, Inc. and a number of other downtown property owners have been approached to lease mineral interests to gas drillers. DFWI, following recent community lease development successes in Fort Worth neighborhoods, has begun an effort to facilitate the creation of a lease for downtown property owners to consider. Community leases provide an opportunity to identify and address neighborhood concerns and maximize value for all. While some have already signed leases in downtown, more than 100 property owners have expressed an interest in participating in this initiative. A property owner meeting will be hosted by DFWI on March 24^th. For more information, contact us at becky@dfwi.org.

MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival

MAIN ST. is just around the corner and scores of volunteers are hard at work to make this the best event in its' 23 year history. More than 1,200 artists applied for the coveted 200 spots, a record competition for entry. Visit the MAIN ST. web site for full event details, including a complete on-line gallery of the artists and volunteer opportunities!

Day Resource Center (DRC) for the Homeless

The DRC was selected by students at the TCU Neeley School of Business for an in-depth marketing evaluation. To assist this effort, a TCU student created, web-based survey will be emailed to members of DFWI and Fort Worth South, Inc. If you receive this survey, please take a few moments to fill it in and send it back. Your feedback is critical to their understanding of DRC stakeholder perceptions.

Hemphill Street Connection

The City of Fort Worth and project consultant TranSystems will hold an informal public meeting to discuss planned transportation improvements associated with the Hemphill Street connection between Vickery Blvd. and Lancaster Avenue. This project was funded in the 2004 CIP bond package and is an important element in the effort to connect downtown to the hospital district and points south. The meeting will be March 31, 6 p.m. in the City Council Chamber. For more information, contact project manager Mike Weiss (817) 392-8485.

UTA Employer Showcase

The Inaugural Fort Worth Employer Showcase will be held this spring at the Ashton Depot. Local businesses can use the event to recruit UTA undergrad and graduate students and alumni.

When: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 5:00pm - 7:00 pm

Where: Ashton Depot, 1401 Jones Street

DEADLINE: March 28, 2008. Contact Megan Topham at topham@uta.edu for registration information.

New TIF and DDRB Board Members

Recent additions to the downtown Tax Increment Financing District board of directors are District 9 City Council Representative Joel Burns and N3 Real Estate's Jason Keen.

The newest members of the Downtown Design Review Board are Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum architect Kirk Millikan and Gateway Planning Group's Scott Polikov.

Downtown in the News

Omni Construction progress

UTA in Downtown

Office Condos Planned for Closed Hotel Tower

Kress Building Purchased

MAIN ST. Volunteer Call

New City Manager Addresses Fort Worth Issues

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