City council to vote on possible Mercado sale
By Aleshia Claunch
Fort Worth Business Press
January 02, 2006
Over the Christmas holidays, city council members were given time to consider a cash offer of $2.5 million for the Mercado de Fort Worth –
a city-owned Mexican market that cost the city nearly $5 million to construct and has sat empty since its completion in April 2005.
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A chance to get it right
By Jack Z. Smith
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
December 23, 2005
Thus far, the numbers are disturbing.
The city of Fort Worth has poured about $4.8 million into the sprawling new Mercado building in the 1500 block of
North Main Street, after the original developer abandoned the project with it only 60 percent complete.
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El mariachi vive en el Metroplex
Festival del Mariachi único en su tipo
By José Antonio Herrera Chávez
Univision Online
DALLAS.- Si de pronto a Usted se le está
olvidando lo que significa ser mexicano,
entonces tiene que vivir, cantar y gozar este
Festival del Mariachi que de manera -
maratónica- tocarán durante 3 días consecutivos
en diversos escenarios en todo el Metroplex.
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Housing Industry Awakens to the Latino Market
Home Builders Take Steps To Make Buying Easier For Hispanic Prospects
By ILAN BRAT
The Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2005; Pg.B8
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A full-size glass house complete with furniture sits
inside the La Gran Plaza mall here, right next to the Cinema Latino and a
Spanish-speaking income-tax preparer. Developers Andrew and Justin
Segal are using the see-through house to target Hispanics daunted by the
home-buying process.
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Latin lifestyle
Hispanics become driving force in economic development
By Cara Wesy
Fort Worth is the third most populous city in Texas, behind Houston and Dallas.
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Council to vote on mall renewal
By
Anna M. Tinsley
Star-Telegram Staff
Writer
FORT WORTH - The old Seminary South Shopping
Center, which four decades ago began as an open-air
mall on the south side, is on the verge of an extensive
makeover.
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Plan for
mall clears hurdle
By
Anna M. Tinsley
Star-Telegram Staff
Writer
A proposal that the city provide up to $22 million in
incentives to renovate the old Fort Worth Town Center
mall into a festival-style mercado passed a
hurdle Tuesday at City Hall.
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La Gran Plaza plan deserves a chance
By Mitchell Schnurman
Star-Telegram
IN MY OPINION
Take a walk through the old Town Center
Mall south of downtown Fort Worth, and you'll
get an idea of why some projects are grave
enough to warrant government help.
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