You can have BOTH the 19th century and modern day developments co-exist within the Stockyards. You just need to know where to keep the old (which should be most of that area) and where to build to the future.
Maybe; but there is no guarantee that that will happen unless Fort Worth forces it.
The Stockyards Event Center and other recent development designed as early 20th Century along Marine Creek/Main Street do not seem to fit in as well as they were designed to be; and too, there are the Domino Pizza and The Sonic buildings that are stark reminders of the need to have some design form guidelines. There is concern that franchise developments like the later will seek to be ever closer, if not actually within, to the core of the Stockyards, signage included.
A earlier series of comments posted suggested that the Stockyards is in badly needed change -
"What I don't appreciate is hysterical folks on those groups who see any old dilapidated building as the holy grail that must not be touched or torn down--as it decays into oblivion over the merits of a ornate part of the building as if the only thing that matters......What is being proposed is a huge project that will save the stockyards and make it even more valuable to the city. .... When in reality it is just an old worn down building that if it was so valuable it would have already been refurbished..... Progress and change is coming ......it is just inevitable". Youngalum #126
I am not certain that those sets of viewpoint are entirely correct.
I assume that it is too late to ask this question, but what is exactly wrong with the Stockyards. It seems to be a place that has always generated its own synenergy for being simply what it is. Is it crucial to the survival of the Stockyards that it be juiced up and why? If massive development does not occur, will the Stockyards disappear?