{"id":446286,"date":"2026-09-24T14:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446286\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:04:28","slug":"fort-worth-celebrates-new-affordable-housing-development-in-stop-six-neighborhood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446286\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth celebrates new affordable housing development in Stop Six neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Barbers Manor, a new affordable housing development in Fort Worth&#8217;s Stop Six neighborhood, had its grand opening on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The development is named for C. Donald Barbers, a former U.S. Housing and Urban Development regional administrator and longtime Fort Worth community leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Barbers Manor is the latest project in Fort Worth&#8217;s push to revitalize the Stop Six neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A brand new affordable housing development in Fort Worth&#8217;s Stop Six neighborhood had its grand opening on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Barbers Manor grand opening<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Wednesday, September 23, Fort Worth held a grand opening ceremony for Barbers Manor, a new affordable housing development in the Stop Six neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City leaders and new residents were on hand for the ceremony. The development replaces Cavile Place, a 300-unit public housing project that was built in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/2e56785e97244717a4afe5647442111f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The development is a mix of town homes and apartments located on Edgewood Terrace. It also includes on-site social services, two playgrounds, a fitness center, a clubhouse, and a business center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I just want us to recognize that these types of projects don&#8217;t just happen. There are cities all over the country that would do just about anything for affordable housing projects to happen in their communities. We&#8217;re doing it right here in Stop Six, which is truly incredible,&#8221; Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">T&#8217;Shawna Brown, who lived at Cavile Place and now lives at Barbers Manor, thanked Fort Worth for keeping its promise to redevelop the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I trusted the process. I trusted the promise that Fort Worth had a solution for us. Something better was to come to Stop Six. Today I can stand here and say you kept your word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local perspective<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Barbers Manor is named for C. Donald Barbers, a former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Regional Administrator and longtime Fort Worth community activist.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;C. Donald Barbers&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/fb32372796567a2affb463e825083ef9.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s the latest part of a project to revitalize the historically Black neighborhood in Fort Worth. In 2020, the city and Fort Worth Housing Solutions obtained a $35 million federal grant for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In total, the plan to revitalize Stop Six includes an anticipated $354 million in developments and improvements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this story comes from the City of Fort Worth and FOX 4 reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Barbers Manor, a new affordable housing development in Fort Worth&#8217;s Stop Six neighborhood, had its grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[153927,116,118,117,11711,13668],"class_list":["post-446286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-c-donald-barbers","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-grand-opening","tag-housing-and-urban-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}