The views from the park are very nice.

I was also there, and enjoyed my stay.  I was a little tired from walking on the Near Southside Version of the Downtown Fort Worth Walking Tour, but I walked the entire event and stayed a little while at some of the booths.

Austin, I'm already ahead of you.  I read the article early this morning.  As for the Power Plant, I'll believe it when I see it.

That one portion of the facade is original to the second phase of the shopping center.  The two adjacent stores have covered over that brick facade.  I will go back and check some of my archives to see what I can determine.  With all of the construction and with Barnes & Noble and Blue Mesa closing, I don't go over there at all.

I have seen many of them on the Trinity Trails.  If you don't look closely, you might just think they are another small bird.  Back when I was doing some photography for my office, I was sent out to our Game On location near I-820 and I-30.  A pair of bluebirds had a nest in one of the newly planted trees, and I stood under that tree to take a photograph. I was dive bombed by the nesting couple.  They were very aggressive for a small bird.

Nice.  I have been watching them train out of my window at work all last week.  However, I did not take any time out to photograph them.

Barricades are still up, but the sidewalk is open and parking has been striped along Commerce Street. 

deco969base by jtrobert, on Flickr

The daylighting was nice on the artwork at the entrance, and some of the exterior lights on the base were turned on.

deco969entry by jtrobert, on Flickr

Finally, there is plywood installed over the area where the restaurant sign has been designed into the building's structure.

deco969restaurantsign by jtrobert, on Flickr

The Bicocchi Building was built immediately after the fire.  However, he had owned the property since 1899 and actually built several commercial buildings on the site before the Southside Fire in 1909.  We talked a little bit about the Fort Worth High School across Jennings Ave. on the tour.  It actually survived the fire in 1909, but ironically was destroyed in 1910 by a fire.  The good news was that the FWISD had voted prior to the fire to replace the building with a newer and larger high school on South Jennings.  It was completed in 1911.

I think some do and some don't.  This isn't a bad choice.  I'm seeing more and more bluebirds when I'm out on the trails or in some of the larger parks.

Online voters picked the City's Official Bird.  The Fort Worth Report has the story:

https://fortworthrep...re-the-results/

What does the forum think?

I prefer the looks of the Perkins & Will design. 

Since the TDLR application is broadscoping and limited in blank space to fill in, I would guess that ground floor retail is the same as the shell retail space.  I interpret the word "core" to mean the building's core with elevators, stairs, and the typical elements found within the core portions of a multi-story building.

Nitixope, they would have to be flexible. 

I didn't get home until late, so I did not notice the smoke.

The cotton seed mill was further north, closer to W. Biddison Street.  This silo is right off of W. Dickson Street, approximately 3 blocks south.

I do remember.

Personally, if I have to go to an H-E-B store, I will drive to Burleson.  The one thing that I don't like about the Burleson store is that it is always busy and the parking lot is always full.

JBB, the answer to your question shows up on the western facade of the building.  The elevator cores were used as a design feature due to the narrowness of the building.  Each back of elevators stops at a certain height and the office floors pick up above the terminated elevator shafts.  The levels where the elevator lobbies exist have windows looking out to the west.  It appears that there are four banks of elevators that serve approximately 10 or 11 floors each. 

The city of Fort Worth is taking renewed steps toward the demolition of an abandoned grain elevator complex on the edge of the Worth Heights Neighborhood.  The story in in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  Below is a link, if you have a subscription:

https://www.star-tel...e287399240.html

Here are my photographs.

partial by jtrobert, on Flickr

jupiter-venus by jtrobert, on Flickr

totality by jtrobert, on Flickr

I agree with you, Nitixope.  It was a little other-worldly and a feeling that there is a higher power.  As I had mentioned before I left home, I was about 18 miles south of my house in Johnson County.  Out in the country, it is a little different than in the city.  My experience showed me that the eclipse was everything people had said it would be.  Crickets started chirping before totality and we saw several birds circling for a perch in the trees.  Quite a bit before totality, Kalleen's goat started to bed down, and her chickens went into the coop.  Finally the last interesting thing during totality that I didn't expect was that we saw a couple of bats fly through.  We were very lucky down south.  It was mostly clear during the entire final phases of the eclipse.  I did see both Venus and Jupiter on each side of the corona of the sun.

Excellent.  Mine didn't turn out as well.

I tend to agree with you, Jeriat.

The staff report is out on the Landmarks case, and it includes both the local and National Register Nominations.  The PDF file is 113 pages, but it has some interesting history of the Fort Worth National Bank and other banks in Downtown.  The National Register Nomination even mentions this website as a source.  This is interesting reading.

https://www.fortwort...hclc-24-044.pdf

Unfortunately, no. I'm going to try to reach out again this week.  However, I have a minor procedure for my dental implants, so I may be out of commission, some.

Linda Blackwell Simmons has another article on Deran Wright.  This one appears in the 360 West Magazine.  Below is a link to the article.

https://digital.abpg...2024/page/78-79