Fort Worth Dirt
“Too expensive to farm and too far out for development.” That’s how Mistletoe Heights was described around 1892 when the Mistletoe Heights Land Company bought the 640 acres of land on the bluffs overlooking the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. The neighborhood is, in fact, a mere two miles south of downtown Fort Worth.…
Today’s Tarrant County Tuesday takes us West to an enchanted stretch of S. FM 4 called Lone Camp in Palo Pinto County. This might be the most challenging article I’ve written in the eight years with CandysDirt.com. (Yeah, Candy, where’s my anniversary gift?) This is a story of a property that doesn’t fit cleanly in…
Reduced by $20,000, listed at 20 percent below the median square foot price for the neighborhood, marvelously move-in ready, and inexplicably 76 days on the market … What’s up with that? Technically, 2600 Lipscomb Street is in Ryan Place but the house was not part of the original, first-ever planned development in Fort Worth orchestrated…
Fort Worth zoning commissioners appeared surprised during an October meeting that there was no in-person opposition to a planned development that includes a five-story, 181-guest hotel. Developer Chetan Patel of Tharaldson Family Inc. is proposing a combination SpringHill Suites and TownePlace Suites on 3.52 acres at 2752 Citadel Spring Drive. Just prior to unanimously approving…
Twenty miles from downtown Fort Worth is the town of Aledo, Texas. Established in 1880 as the Parker Post Office, the name was changed to Aledo most likely after Aledo, Illinois. The entire town is roughly two square miles in size. Being relatively close to Fort Worth, Aledo experienced rapid growth in the 1990s when…
