Fort Worth Dirt
Ask any home builder and they will tell you, building on a 50-foot-wide property is always a challenge. Many new home neighborhoods are developed with 50-foot homesites to maximize value and profit as land has continued to increase in cost. In those neighborhoods, the final product isn’t always viewed as an architectural masterpiece. With a…
To what lengths are you willing to go to own a piece of the sky? One of the most unique Fort Worth properties on the market now is a top-story penthouse at 500 Throckmorton, AKA The Tower. It’s Unit No. 3506, and it’s priced well under $1 million. What’s the catch? To say that it…
Wasn’t the weather this past week fantastic? I love it when you get up before the sun and there’s a cool breeze and almost a little nip in the air as you take your neurotic Goldendoodle, Charley, on his morning walk? Okay maybe that’s only me, but certainly, you noticed that fall is creeping towards…
Collinwood Avenue is a bit of a mixed bag. Some buyers, tempted by comparatively bargain prices while seeking a prized Westside address abutting Westover, bought houses here in the 1990s and early aughts and razed them to build larger homes. Well, prices have risen considerably and there isn’t much of that sort of activity anymore.…
Last week Tarrant County Tuesday told you about a home project in the historic Fort Worth neighborhood of Fairmount that was priced just so a new owner could obtain the property and, with a little elbow grease and imagination, transform the home into another historic gem in the neighborhood. The response was tremendously positive. Longtime…
