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\u2019s being built there?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
StoneHawk is no stranger to Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the developer asked the city for a zoning change<\/a> to put 336 apartment units and townhomes at 11413 Mosier Valley Road, near Euless. Construction is not complete on that project.<\/p>\n In 2022 \u2014 at the same meeting<\/a> where the apartments on Northside Drive were approved \u2014 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The development\u2019s other neighbors include a recycling center, the Fort Worth Police Department\u2019s storage for impounded cars, and a hotel.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>. The lots on the south side of the river, near Panther Island, are zoned for commercial and industrial use.<\/p>\n