Am I alone in thinking that nearly all new residential development being constructed or planned around Fort Worth's urban core consists of apartments, apartments, and still more apartments? I know about the spotty history of condominium developments downtown but the vision of future Fort Worth becoming a huge monolith of block after block of uninspiring apartments is depressing. Developers/builders, because they tend to follow whatever local housing trends seem the safest from an investment prospective, are perhaps unwittingly short-changing our aspirations for becoming a world class city.
An Indiana friend of mine sent me a listing for a downtown town home in Indianapolis that out-class nearly everything I've seen in Fort Worth: https://www.zillow.c...083655113_zpid/ Why can't we have this kind of modern development here? The notion that a Rustbelt city in the Midwest architecturally out-classes what is supposed to be a booming urban destination for newcomers to DFW, is depressing. Fort Worth leaders seem satisfied that we are in the midst of a downtown renaissance by being front and center of the back-to-the-cites movement, but the reality is that the real monied people in our city end up building their multi-million dollar mansions on sprawling estates far from downtown. Adding more and more mid-market level apartments in and around the downtown core will do little to improve our City's image, IMO. I guess the typical downtown resident of the future will decidedly be an apartment dweller because individual/single family residences are so rare here. That said, I do appreciate new construction on formerly underutilized downtown lots but why do all of these new developments have to be so architecturally cookie-cutter like? Worse, imagine what all these apartment complexes are going to look like 25 or 50 years from now? A few may hold their value, longer term, but so many more probably won't because they were not built for permanence.