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Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
March 28, 2006
By Sandra Baker
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

Downtown homes to be shown on tour

FORT WORTH — Several downtown developers, with the help of Downtown Fort Worth Inc., are teaming up to sponsor the first tour of downtown homes.

The tours will run Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. with stops at several condominium developments, some being planned and some already occupied.

The group was pulled together by Tom Struhs, developer of Pecan Place and Trinity Bluff in Uptown, who said the developments need a mutual marketing campaign.

"What we're trying to is build traffic for all the developments downtown," Struhs said.

The public tour begins at Fire Station No. 1, at Second and Commerce streets, where participants can receive information about the properties. They can either walk or take a trolley that will circulate among the developments, said Andy Taft, president of Downtown Fort Worth Inc.

Free parking will be available in Sundance Square Garage 1 on Commerce Street, between Second and Third streets.

Stops will include The Tower, Pecan Place, the Neil P. at Burnett Park and Houston Place Lofts. There will also be information available on One City Place, the redevelopment of the Tandy Center, and the Palisades, a 40-unit town house development on East Bluff Street.

Centex Homes, which is planning downtown developments, and Williams Trew Urban, a division of Williams Trew residential, are also sponsors.

Taft said that the tour will be held at other times to be determined during the year. As other residential projects come on line, they will be added, he said.

Sandra Baker, (817) 390-7727 sabaker@star-telegram.com
 
The Houston Place Lofts, at Houston and Ninth streets, will be on this weekend's tour.

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