So, by now you may have heard that a group of 50 Fort Worthians, including Mayor MC Moncrizzle and the Official Streetcar Study Group (I’d pay up to and including a dollar to see a band with that name), took a trip to (Unnamed City To The East) yesterday to take a look at Mockingbird Station, the first TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) ever built in Big (UCTTE), to get some inspiration for Fort Worth’s planned streetcar circulator system. Of course, Mockingbird Station is built on a DART light rail line, which is not really similar to our proposed streetcar circulator, but their heart’s in the right place. The study group plans to take a trip to visit Portland next and have a look at their streetcar system, which is directly what ours would be based on.

I have to say, it warms the cockles of this New Urbanist’s heart when I hear that the Mayor dropped some fresh beats that he’d never attempted before. I never thought I’d hear him say this sentence:

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It’s been another busy week at West & Clear’s sister site Fort Worthology, so here’s some of what’s been going on since last Thursday:

• SoSeven’s rolling along on the Shops & Lofts.
• I took my usual architecture nerd’s perspective in examining a new-construction home of traditional architecture in Fairmount.
• Rumors are afoot - Is the United Way Building coming down? And what might replace it?
• I took another perspective on the Susan Alanis hiring.
• I rolled out a bunch of HDR photos of downtown.
• Finally, I wrote up a huge post today going into detail on the neighborhoods of the Trinity Uptown plan.

Another week of posts at West & Clear’s sister site Fort Worthology, and it’s been a busy week in Fort Worth urban development. Here’s some of what’s been going on since last Thursday:

• Another building falls to the Museum Place development - now they’re making way for the Aloft Hotel on Arch Adams between 7th & Camp Bowie.
• So7’s Shops & Lofts are moving ahead at a good clip.
• I took a look at the loft apartments in the Kress Building downtown.
• Finally, I wrote a big roundup on the status of various bits of the Trinity River Vision.