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Voting for: Fort Worth advances to 12th place.

Winner!

Fort Worth passed San Jose but is still barely behind Austin and a few thousand behind Jacksonville. 

More: https://www.census.g...-estimates.html

TEXRail's new named trains each have cool little designs with them: https://ridetrinitym...with-new-names/

I counted up the number of units available per the website. Of the 302 units, 276 are available right now, meaning about 8% of the building has been leased. 

Almost done!

The Burnett Plaza story has started to blow up and I've seen it all over. It hit Fox Business the other day and has been a big talking point since about the decline of commercial office property. 

I'll paste a comment that I saw in an FB group that explained the situation,

the missing info here is that this was a bank buy-back after the buyer defaulted on their loan. So the bank is only paying a fraction of the cost, because they already basically owned the building given that the buyer hadn't paid off the loan they took out from the bank to buy it. It still represents a decline in the commercial office space market, but not a 90% decline

The now-closed Woodhaven Golf Course has been purchased by a local development group headed by Will Northern: https://fortworthrep...woodhaven-area/

The zoning chang for the Larkspur project passed unanimously. Not much discussion or anything new was said. Construction starting Q1 next year.

Video on the Gateway Park Masterplan:

The Amon Carter Foundation has donated nearly an acre of land from the "Jones St Superblock" to A&M. Read more: https://fort-worth.t...-am-fort-worth/

This is all the land now part of the University via TAD. 

I would have loved to see a before and after of the first view from like 5 years ago.

Not nearly that far back, but here is January 2023. There's four buildings (mostly) here now that weren't there then. 

Tangentially related, new FLIRTs for DART's Silver Line project began testing yesterday on the TRE tracks. Silver Line is targeting an early 2026 from what I've heard. 

Framed up

Funding, and getting the council on board with that, will be a big topic still (when isn't it?).

There's two more council seats that didn't exist last time. Assuming the scope of the rail project is fairly confined to existing urban areas (Near Southside, West 7th, Panther Island, Stockyards and Downtown) the whole system is in two districts, 9 and 2, and maybe a sliver of 3 if it gets into the Cultural District/Dickies Arena. Voters and representatives from District 10 are going to get 0 perceived benefit from a central city investment. Some sort of localized funding mechanism, federal or state grants, or something that is coming from a bigger pool is going to be important in getting anything done IMO. 

If I could have anything, It'd be an NWSL or a USL team with their own soccer specific stadium. Dream would be a renovation of Farrington. 

An AHL or ECHL team at Dickies would be incredible too but would have rodeo scheduling challenges.