NEWS RELEASES
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
July 18, 2005
BAKER & JARES
By Sandra Baker and Andrea Jares
Star-Telegram Staff Writers
Plans confirmed
for condo tower
The developer of Trinity Bluff has confirmed that a
20-story condo tower will be a part of its residential
and retail development on the north end of downtown Fort
Worth.
At a groundbreaking last month for a four-story, 304-unit
apartment building, the first phase of the planned $350
million project, Tom Struhs said his group was considering
a 20-story tower.
Last week, during his speech at the quarterly luncheon
of Downtown Fort Worth Inc., Struhs showed a computer-animated
model of the proposed structure and told attendees that
he hopes to start construction by next summer.
The tower will be part of a joint venture with Dallas-based
Lincoln Property Co., which is also involved on the apartment
building, under construction on Bluff Street between
Grove and Cummings streets, above the Trinity River.
Struhs said Lincoln's architects will soon begin designing
the condo tower, which may have 274 units. It will be
across Samuels Avenue from Pioneers Rest Cemetery, he
said.
Struhs said Trinity Bluff is moving along as planned.
He and partners Rudy Renda and Elizabeth Falconer, Struhs'
wife, amassed 30 acres for the project during the past
few years under the name Wide Open Spaces.
"The only thing on our schedule that has changed
is its acceleration," Struhs said. Trinity Bluff
should be completed in about six years, a few years earlier
than originally thought, he said.
-- Sandra Baker
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