Caprock Group has purchased 1111 Foch, the small building immediately north of the Lancaster Avenue bridge on Foch (south end of the Foch Warehouse complex) in the Cultural District/7th Street area, and are now redeveloping the structure as a mixed-use development. The project will feature ground-level retail/restaurant/bar space on Foch (with optional patio area), ground-floor office space to the rear (eastern side), and four loft apartments on the second floor. It looks as though work has already started on the project.
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1111 Foch
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Posted 09 July 2009 - 08:02 AM
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Kara B.
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 04:20 PM
http://www.fwbusines...ay.php?id=12091
LoLa developers plan bar and grill for former transmission shop
BY ALESHIA HOWE
March 05, 2010
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One of the smaller mixed-use developments in Fort Worth’s Cultural District is expanding following the success of its first venture – Capital Bar.
Developers of LoLa, a mixed-use project named for its location near lower Lancaster Avenue, already have started work on a new 3,000-square-foot upscale grill and bar called Magnolia Motor Lounge, which will open at 3005 Morton St. in the former Vaughn’s Transmission space.
Clay Mazur of Mazur Capital LLC is the developer, Michael Barnes, president of Barnes Architects and Mowlesh Ramarapu are Mazur’s partners in the LoLa Development.
Barnes said Magnolia Motor Lounge originally looked at space on Magnolia Avenue in Fort Worth’s Near South Side(hence the name), but ran into problems when trying to get a hard liquor license. Once the owners saw the transmission shop space, they were sold Barnes said – and at the same time, original plans to demolish the former transmission shop were shelved.
“We can turn it into something pretty cool next to Capital Bar,” Barnes said. “It’s a cool looking building and it will be the same style as what we have at Capital Bar. We’re going to have the inside fashioned more like an old service station with kind of a retro feel. The industrial section of LoLa is geared toward that. There will be a snaky looking bar and it will have old stools like what you would have seen in an old transmission shop.”
Magnolia Motor Lounge also will feature a rare 1956 Porsche as its centerpiece. Fort Worth resident Mark Euckert is the restaurant’s owner.
Also under construction as part of the overall LoLa development is a new outdoor stage and bar in the works in the courtyard of the 2,600-square-foot Capital Bar expected to be open by April as well as work being completed on the ground floor of a planned nine-unit condo mixed-use project called Norwood Condos. Barnes said the condo portion of the 8,300-square-foot building at 1005 Norwood St. is on hold until the market improves, but the ground-floor retail is going forward with a planned red stucco exterior – and several restaurants are touring the space, he said.
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 07:47 PM
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Posted 08 March 2010 - 09:35 PM
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 12:20 PM
Can someone provide the proper pronunciation for Foch, please.
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 12:34 PM
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 02:24 PM
Long or short O? I tend to pronounce it with the long o.
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Kara B.
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 07:25 PM
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 07:43 PM
That might be technically right, but if someone told me something was on "fosh" (long or short o), I'd have no idea what they were talking about. I've always heard it with a hard ending -- fock (equally split between long and short o).
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Posted 09 March 2010 - 11:23 PM
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 12:39 AM
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 09:47 AM
Those in Chimy's call it FOCK...and have T-shirts that utilize the lazy-mans pronunciation.
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 11:07 AM
Pete Charlton
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 12:28 PM
Fock, soft "o", and hard "o", bot no Fosh of any type "o". But I'm from PA. :-)
Maybe it'll have to be a spellman type name
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 03:51 PM
Fock, soft "o", and hard "o", bot no Fosh of any type "o". But I'm from PA. :-)
Maybe it'll have to be a spellman type name
For whatever it's worth, my French aunt, whose father was a WWI Croix de Guerre recipient who knew and worked with Marshal Foch, pronounced the name as Fosh with the long "o" as in go. That's the way I always heard my Fort Worth family members propounce it as well. It's amazing how many variations there are on the name now that the street has become such a center of activity again. And a little sad that the stature of the "Great War" hero has largely slipped from memory.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 12:21 PM
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 02:19 PM
Foch was a very well known and respected soldier and was one of the big names of WWI. With Camp Bowie training troops to be sent overseas, it is understandable that recognition would be given to Foch.
The name came when Franklin Street was changed to Foch Street in 1922 in a large name change action that came after annexation of Arlington Heights and other parts of the city.
Pete Charlton
The Fort Worth Gazette blog
The Lost Antique Maps of Fort Worth on CDROM
Website: Antique Maps of Texas
Large format reproductions of original antique and vintage Texas & southwestern maps
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 11:00 PM
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Posted 26 June 2010 - 10:33 AM
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 03:12 PM
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Posted 29 June 2010 - 02:56 PM
office.
architect is Gary Cunningham.
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Posted 30 June 2010 - 04:26 PM
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Posted 06 September 2010 - 09:40 PM
#25
Posted 20 April 2014 - 09:01 AM
what happened to this project?
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Posted 20 April 2014 - 09:16 AM
Nothing has happened to the building. I don't know if the project is on hold, or they decided not to do anything with the building. Considering how the area has rapidly improved, it is now an eyesore.
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Posted 16 November 2015 - 06:37 PM
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Posted 30 March 2016 - 05:31 AM
great pics but this is at the other end of 1111 foch, the caprock building is starting to be gutted and is apparently going through some adaptive redesign
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Posted 28 May 2016 - 04:57 PM
Is the initial post on this still whats happening here?
#33
Posted 05 February 2017 - 11:02 PM
Here is a more recent photo
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