{"id":447898,"date":"2026-09-25T23:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:44:18","slug":"beach-hotel-plans-scrapped-at-fort-worth-rock-quarry-whats-the-new-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447898\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach, hotel plans scrapped at Fort Worth rock quarry. What\u2019s the new vision?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2018, <a data-ylk=\"slk:a developer had plans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/business\/growth\/article204893989.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a developer had plans<\/a> to turn a former rock quarry in Fort Worth into condominiums, apartments, hotels, a convention center and a music venue along a beach with a 100-foot tall Ferris wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A decade later, the city says, the land will instead become a nature park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At its meeting on Sept. 29, the Fort Worth City Council is set to accept the dedication of Quarry Falls, a roughly 12-acre area of park land near 4800 Decatur Road that has had $1.13 million in improvements installed by the developer, Greystar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Greystar has installed a quarter mile walking trail, two benches, and a trash can, according to a city document. The company plans to install another 1,300 linear feet of trails and a 40-car parking lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Greystar purchased the property in 2024. Developer Ed Casebier of Renaissance Development told the Star-Telegram back in 2018 about the company&#8217;s plans to find new life for the abandoned rock quarry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Casebier and his business partner Tom Blanton, who died in 2014, restored the T&amp;P building in downtown Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The dedication is essentially a donation of the land to the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2018, a developer had plans to turn a former rock quarry in Fort Worth into condominiums, apartments,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4569,116,118,117,20435,154350],"class_list":["post-447898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-ferris-wheel","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-music-venue","tag-rock-quarry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447898","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=447898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}