For Paul Schuder, Wedgwood East is more than a neighborhood. It’s where he grew up, riding bikes with friends until the streetlights came on.<\/p>\n
“Well, Dad built the house in ’72,” Schuder said. Back then, he remembers a quieter area with open land stretching east of McCart Road and Altamesa Boulevard.<\/p>\n
“There was nothing to the east of McCart and Altamesa at that point,” he said.<\/p>\n
Now, as parts of the neighborhood face concerns about crime, poverty and aging properties, the city of Fort Worth<\/a> has selected Wedgwood East for its 2027 Neighborhood Improvement Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n The city plans to invest $4.3 million over three years to improve neighborhood conditions and quality of life.<\/p>\n “Our neighborhood for 2027 will be Wedgwood East,” a city official announced during Tuesday’s City Council work session.<\/p>\n The investment is expected to focus on neighborhood infrastructure and revitalization, including street improvements, landscaping and addressing aging apartment complexes and other properties.<\/p>\n The city’s Neighborhood Improvement Program coordinates public infrastructure investments and neighborhood enhancements in targeted areas. According to the city, the program uses data-driven selection, community engagement and coordination between city departments to address infrastructure needs and improve neighborhood safety, accessibility and quality of life.<\/p>\n The first phase of the Wedgwood East effort will focus on gathering feedback from residents to help identify priorities for the investment.<\/p>\n Kacey Thomas, the city’s director of Neighborhood Services, said residents deserve a neighborhood where they can feel comfortable living and raising their families.<\/p>\n “All of our residents deserve to have a place where they are comfortable living and working and just having their families grow,” Thomas said.<\/p>\n The city expects the improvement effort to take about three years to complete.<\/p>\n For Schuder, the improvements are an opportunity to help the neighborhood he remembers from childhood.<\/p>\n He said he understands the work will take time but hopes the investment will make Wedgwood East a better place for future generations.<\/p>\n “Better for the future,” he said.<\/p>\n Schuder hopes the changes will help more children experience the kind of childhood he remembers \u2014 one filled with friends, bikes and days spent outside until the streetlights came on.<\/p>\n “Anytime that you’re going to improve in the neighborhood, it’s better,” he said.<\/p>\n Residents can learn more about Fort Worth’s Neighborhood Improvement Program through the city’s official website<\/a> or contact the program at 817-392-7540 or NIP@FortWorthTexas.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Paul Schuder, Wedgwood East is more than a neighborhood. It’s where he grew up, riding bikes with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-479990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479990","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=479990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}