In Ethnic Enclaves, The U.S. Economy Thrives

By Joel Kotkin
Forbes.com

November 21, 2008

Dr. Alethea Hsu has a strange-seeming prescription for terrible times: She is opening a new shopping center on Saturday. In addition, more amazingly, the 114,000 square foot Irvine, Calif., retail complex, the third for the Taiwan native's Diamond Development Group, is just about fully leased.

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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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