I went out today to shoot some downtown construction projects and I wound up walking all over the place and eating lunch at one of the city's newest restaurants. Here's a sampling of my photos.
First Presbyterian Church Addition:
The beginnings of Cantey & Hanger Plaza (4 Story Office Building):
Caceria Building (7 Story Office Building):
City Tower (16 Stories, 169 feet, retirement residential):
The Carnegie (16 Stories, 239 feet, office):
Two City Place, formerly the Tandy Center renovation. If you look carefully, you can see they have removed the signature lights on the side of the building.
Conversion of the South Tower into residential has not begun, but here is a photo of that building so you can see how the Tandy Center looked before the renovation started.
The tallest building under construction in the city, is the new Omni Fort Worth Hotel (34 Stories and 547 feet). It will be the city's second tallest building when completed:
You can also see the construction from one of the walkways inside the Water Gardens:
Speaking of the Water Gardens, I also captured this photo:
Now, here are some random photos; unfortunately, it became mostly overcast:
Let's see, we have a choice of two country radio stations, Barnes & Noble, or a movie at the Palace Theater.
The base of The Tower is looking sharp now that all of the retail along Throckmorton Street is open. There's Texas Capital Bank, Qdoba, Potbelly Sandwich Works, and Cantina Laredo, just opening this week. I ate there to try it out and my meal was excellent.
As I was leaving, the restaurants were getting ready for the evening crowds, here are some of the sidewalk tables at Riscky's, a local barbecue place.
They were already advertising All You Can Eat Fried Catfish.
Well, that's my quick photo tour of downtown. It was a fairly short one, and it was really deserted (unusual for a Saturday afternoon). I hope you enjoyed.