Group Adds To List Of Fort Worth Endangered Places
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - Historic Fort Worth, Inc. has expanded its list of endangered places.
Executive Director Jerre Tracy says they've added seven locations to the list. All of the buildings currently have no maintenance requirements or protection from demolition.
Some of the endangered locations include buildings at the Fort Worth Stockyards and the historic Ridglea Theater on Camp Bowie Boulevard.
Tracy said the councilman for the area surrounding the Ridglea is very interested in a form-based code concept. Form-based code allows different zones to be mixed within the same location.
"Like you see in New York City, ya know where you can walk outside and you can actually live above the building…or above your office space," Tracy explained. "You can have restaurants that are there, with maybe a bar here and there but it's the business mix that is magic and getting urban villages redeveloped."
Current urban villages on Hemphill Street, Berry Street and Camp Bowie Boulevard were also added to the list.
Tracy said if the locations were declared city landmarks it would take action before the Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission before anyone could make structural changes to the buildings. She went on to say that the "real" power is right down the street.
"The local [landmark] designation is the one that really saves places," Tracy said. "Like for instance with Will Rogers all it would take is for the city council to designate them and then they wouldn't be on our list."
Leaders at Historic Fort Worth, Inc. are urging the Fort Worth city council to take action.
Other locations on the endangered list include: the Community Arts Center in Fort Worth's Stockyards, the Forest Park pool and the old Renfro Drug store a fixture on Pennsylvania Avenue since 1929.
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