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[John T Roberts]

During their work session the Downtown Design Review Board will be hearing about three mixed use buildings that are proposed for the north side of Lancaster between Monroe and Throckmorton Streets. It appears this is the first new construction proposed for the Lancaster Corridor. I don't have any more details than this. The board won't be voting on the project this month. After they hear about it coming up on their agenda, they have some time to ponder over the new structures. When the time is right, the developer will then apply for their review. It could be as fast as the following month. The Downtown Design Review Board Meets on Thursday, December 1st at 1:30 PM for their work session and at 2:00 PM for the voting portion of their agenda.

[Ron Payne]

Nice - things are looking up! Now if the housing market would just loosen up, we could sell our house and live downtown and enjoy all these new buildings!

[Volare]

Now they should tear down the hideous wall on the south side of the Water Gardens and really open that area to the cooridor.

[David Love]

I'm excited to see what they're planning.

[johnfwd]

The Star-Telegram article by Diane Smith below is about TCC’s main offices moving from 1500 Houston Street to the Trinity River campus. My only interest is the abandonment of the May Owen Center building on Houston at Lancaster. Is it anyone's guess if this is indirectly connected with the recent plans to build three office/commercial structures along Lancaster Avenue near Houston and that some of the existing structures (including the May Owen Center building) need to be cleared away?

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[David Love]

The Star-Telegram article by Diane Smith below is about TCC's main offices moving from 1500 Houston Street to the Trinity River campus. My only interest is the abandonment of the May Owen Center building on Houston at Lancaster. Is it anyone's guess if this is indirectly connected with the recent plans to build three office/commercial structures along Lancaster Avenue near Houston and that some of the existing structures (including the May Owen Center building) need to be cleared away?

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I'm more concerned with the $715,000.00 they feel they need to spend to relocate 80 people. Cable drops, cube walls, desks, chairs and you're done, they currently have IT staff and a lot of students that could use some On The Job Training.

[johnfwd]

Thanks, DL. I appreciate your concerns as expressed in the public/institutional thread. Here I'm just asking if anyone knows if the May Owen Center building is going to be torn down to make way for the mixed-used project on Lancaster Avenue (which may be why TCC is moving out)?

[David Love]

Thanks, DL. I appreciate your concerns as expressed in the public/institutional thread. Here I'm just asking if anyone knows if the May Owen Center building is going to be torn down to make way for the mixed-used project on Lancaster Avenue (which may be why TCC is moving out)?

John might know or may not be able to say, I'd suspect if it was public knowledge it would have been made public by now.

[pmd1]

I would love to see a suburban style Walmart Super Center there. Council would be all over this. Walmart can be the economic stimulus that this area needs.

[cberen1]

I would love to see a suburban style Walmart Super Center there. Council would be all over this. Walmart can be the economic stimulus that this area needs.

No one appreciates sarcasm more than I do, but this is just too much.


TOO MUCH!!!

[David Love]

Don't they file a print of the proposed layout? I know they have something for the zoning changes but not sure how that impacts existing structures.

[pmd1]

TOO MUCH!!!

actually, I do agree my comment was too much.
I want the best for Lancaster Avenue. I think this is an emerging gem for the city. You can cite few cities that have the uniquely wide street and buildings that face the street. It's skewed angle and the way it bisects downtown, the Masonic Lodge, crosses the river an terminates at the Cultural District are rich.

[John T Roberts]

As far as I know, the three buildings do not include the May Owen Building. They sit on the three blocks west of Throckmorton Street.

[renamerusk]

.....I want the best for Lancaster Avenue. I think this is an emerging gem for the city. You can cite few cities that have the uniquely wide street and buildings that face the street. It's skewed angle and the way it bisects downtown, the Masonic Lodge, crosses the river an terminates at the Cultural District are rich.

Sometime in the past, I blogged that Lancaster Avenue through the CBD and into the Cultural District should reflect its importance to the image of the city. Lancaster Avenue west of I-35 to Montgomery Street begins at the Water Gardens (park); passes Trinity Park and ends at the Cultural District's public green spaces. To my knowledge, there is not a Fort Worth corridor with the name of "Park Avenue"; and branding that section of the corridor would recognize the corridor actual grandeur which has long been understated.

Keep Fort Worth folksy

[johnfwd]

So, does anyone know the progress, if any, of the mixed-use project along Lancaster in the vicinity of Throckmorton?

[Ron Payne]

I look directly out my window at Lancaster and Throckmorton, and all I see is a big ugly parking lot next to a big ugly parking garage, with a big ugly billboard thrown in for good measure. However, if I look just to the right, at least I can enjoy the sunsets reflected in the Omni! No sign of any work going on in this area that I can see...

[johnfwd]

I look directly out my window at Lancaster and Throckmorton, and all I see is a big ugly parking lot next to a big ugly parking garage, with a big ugly billboard thrown in for good measure. However, if I look just to the right, at least I can enjoy the sunsets reflected in the Omni! No sign of any work going on in this area that I can see...

Maybe we've been spoiled by frenetic developments lately such as West 7th, Sundance Square plaza, etc.  Get it done and get it done fast.  So maybe the seeming non-existence of this particular project is par for the course for Fort Worth.  But I did think it was back on track when the city decided to go ahead with a parking garage after the Catholic Church backed out of being an investment partner in this deal.  

[Jeriat]

I look directly out my window at Lancaster and Throckmorton, and all I see is a big ugly parking lot next to a big ugly parking garage, with a big ugly billboard thrown in for good measure. However, if I look just to the right, at least I can enjoy the sunsets reflected in the Omni! No sign of any work going on in this area that I can see...

Maybe we've been spoiled by frenetic developments lately such as West 7th, Sundance Square plaza, etc.  Get it done and get it done fast.  So maybe the seeming non-existence of this particular project is par for the course for Fort Worth.  But I did think it was back on track when the city decided to go ahead with a parking garage after the Catholic Church backed out of being an investment partner in this deal.  

... is it not? 

[Corsicana33]

No the Catholic Church backed out of the deal because they saw it as wasting money to relocate their offices, instead they plan on using that money to help out some of the poorer Catholic Churches in the area.

[JBB]

Is this an official slogan?

 

Fort Worth Forum: If The Dirt Doesn't Turn The Day After One Word Is Leaked, The Project Is Dead

[Doohickie]

Ha! 

 

 

Actually, if this forum has taught me anything, it's that every project of any significance takes a long time to go from concept to conclusion.