Affordable housing complex coming to Fort Worth’s north side along Trinity River

Commuters who pass through north Fort Worth, southeast of the Stockyards, may have noticed some construction along the Trinity River off of Northside Drive. So what’s being built there?

In February, the Fort Worth Housing Solutions Board of Commissioners approved a memorandum of understanding with the Dallas-based real estate developer StoneHawk Capital Partners to develop an affordable housing apartment complex with 218 units and a parking garage on a plot of land at 1500 Northside Drive, west of the Oakhurst neighborhood and roughly two miles from the Stockyards.

There will be 161 one-bedroom units and 57 two-bedroom units in the complex, previously listed as The Quinn but now titled The Dutton. Construction is expected to wrap up in late 2026 or early 2027.

StoneHawk is no stranger to Fort Worth.

In 2023, the developer asked the city for a zoning change to put 336 apartment units and townhomes at 11413 Mosier Valley Road, near Euless. Construction is not complete on that project.

In 2022 — at the same meeting where the apartments on Northside Drive were approved — the Zoning Commission removed a multifamily density per-acre restriction that would allow StoneHawk to build up to 1,682 multifamily units and 12.5 acres of retail, restaurant, and commercial development at 2212 E. Fourth Street.

The Northside Drive apartments are along a relatively industrial area just north of Panther Island, near Interstate 35W. Another apartment complex, Shelby at Northside, opened on a lot directly southeast of the land in 2019. The plot itself is zoned for high-density, mixed-use development.

The development’s other neighbors include a recycling center, the Fort Worth Police Department’s storage for impounded cars, and a hotel.

Much of the surrounding land is zoned for heavy industrial, and the plot itself is in the Trinity River 50-year floodplain, according to the city of Fort Worth zoning map. The lots on the south side of the river, near Panther Island, are zoned for commercial and industrial use.

In 2022, developers entered into conversations with the Oakhurst Neighborhood Association, which had concerns about the development’s proximity to the floodplain and heavy traffic near Mercy Culture’s planned shelter for victims of human trafficking.

StoneHawk could not be reached for comment.