The official shoveling of dirt began for the $1.7 billion Westside Village on Thursday, but a giant hole where the former Fort Worth ISD headquarters once stood was proof that the project is already well underway.
The first phase of the 37-acre Westside Village will include a 100,000-square-foot Class AA office building and a 308-unit luxury residential community.
The office building will offer premier workspace, ground floor retail, two restaurant concepts, and a private social club, all connected by a shared underground parking garage.
With Fort Worth’s first mass timber office building and a subterranean jazz club, the development is different than anything else in the city, said Carl Anderson, president of Dallas-based Larkspur Capital, who along with the Keystone Group, are developing the mixed-use project.
“I’m really looking forward to announcing the details on that mass timber building,” he said. “It will be a 180,000-square-foot building, so a substantial office building and ours will have more of a forward contextual concept, a lot more masonry, so it blends in better.”
Anderson said they will announce more details on the office building and the jazz club soon.
He said they are seeing a lot of demand for the office space.
“The Class A office market in Fort Worth is virtually full, so there’s really not a lot of availability,” he said. “We’re already trading term sheets on a lot of office space, and we really just started marketing it when we hired HPI just a couple months ago.”
Anderson said they had many internal discussions on what the project would be and especially wanted it to be a gathering place.
“It needs to respond to the architectural context of the city, the cultural context and the city’s history,” he said.
Westside Village will include paseos, public plazas and courtyards to foster a welcoming, human-scaled atmosphere. The area will also connect to the Upper West Fork trail system, enabling access by foot, bike or transit. Select industrial buildings in the area will be adaptively reused to preserve neighborhood character, Anderson said.
Speaking at the groundbreaking, Mayor Mattie Parker said the project is transformative not just for the westside, but for all of Fort Worth.
“We are situated in a very important place in the city of Fort Worth just a mile or so from the central business district, just a mile or so from the Fort Worth Stockyards and our beautiful Cultural District,” she said. “This development really will bring all those things together.”
Fort Worth city officials approved a $125 million incentive package on the project last year.
When fully built out, Westside Village will consist of 880,000 square feet of office space, 238,000 square feet of retail, a boutique hotel and 1,785 apartments.
General contractor Moss & Associates is leading construction for Phase I.
Bob Francis is business editor at the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at bob.francis@fortworthreport.org. At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here.
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