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Earlier... MUCH earlier in this thread, someone mentioned how Fort Worth has a Top Ten caliber downtown area.....
Uh, no.
Now in no way am I saying it's NOT a good downtown area, becasue I believe Fort Worth should definately be on a Top 25 list, but not Top 10.
Here's an areal pic (it's from 7 years ago, but it's virtually the same) of downtown..... I want you to count the number of parking spaces you see.
Personally, I think if it's more than 5 (which it is), then that's WAY too much.
Here's some shots of the city's heart: Sundance Square
Christmas Time
Here's the Bass Performance Hall
Looking down Main Street and the Main St. Arts Festival
The Water Gardens
Downtown Living
Downtown's Future Expansion
Fort Worth has alot of potential.
As of right now, it is a very walkable place that makes you feel lik you're in a small town, with its brick paved streets, 19th/early 20th century buildings, and Courthouse.
It's a great place, but it does have too many parking spaces for you to say it's in the top ten. But the area has a ways to go in order for you to say it's in the Top Ten. But the area has MUCH room to grow..... and it will.
Thanks for the pictures of downtown Fort Worth JJG. We have had these discussion before on the Fort Worth Forum before. Downtown Fort Worth has a lot of potential and quite frankly downtown Fort Worth has made huge progress over the years. WE WANT DENSITY AND HEIGHT IN OUR DOWNTOWN.
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Downtown Fort Worth has a lot of potential and quite frankly downtown Fort Worth has made huge progress over the years. WE WANT DENSITY AND HEIGHT IN OUR DOWNTOWN.
What purpose exactly does height serve? Bragging rights?
What purpose exactly does height serve? Bragging rights?
No.
More like... giving the city more of a signature than 6 pillars with 4 big gaps in between.....
Downtown Ft. Worth doesn't have to look anything like Dallas or Houston, but can we have SOMETHING better than what we have now?
Like San Antonio. It's tallest building (not counting Tower of the Americans) is like 567 ft. tall, which is the same height as our tallest. But downtown San Antone at least has some density and more of a recognizable look.
Chicago was home to the first skyscraper and it was the first city to innovate "riverfront development". It was also the first city that showed a clear skyline and was the first to have more than two downtown districts (The Loop, North Side, and Sout End).
New York is bigger, but came to alo of this about a decade later. At first, New Yorkers on Manhattan stayed away from the Jersey River shoreline and didn't develope multi level construction near it until the 1890's. New York didn't get it's first skyscraper until the 1900s but Chicago had it's in 1889.
I agree about Denver. It has a relatively good downtown.
Especially with the 16th Street mall. I was in Denver a few years ago, and found that 1.25 miles of bustling street activity to be quite nice.
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