Revitalization
Our "Full-Strength Fort Worth" Revitalization Strategy
As one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, Fort Worth must be able to compete at full strength on an international stage for businesses, resources and top talent.
But Fort Worth can't operate at its full potential while parts of the community remain on the sidelines. Several of the city's neighborhoods have been negatively impacted by years of historic disinvestment and economic disparity, creating opportunities of unrealized potential throughout the city. Addressing these critical issues is essential to Fort Worth's long-term success, because all city residents should have the opportunity to participate in, and benefit from Fort Worth's growing economic success.
The Full-Strength Fort Worth framework is helping focus the city's economic and community vitality efforts to create a stronger Fort Worth – specifically in key business corridors that serve as the heart of their communities.
The Full-Strength Fort Worth framework encourages both public and private investment, combining the expertise of local and national partners to help the city become a leader in creating vibrant communities where everyone can thrive. Its revitalization toolkit allows for a customized, tailored approach towards development in each community, so that each solution can be as unique as the community itself. Full-Strength Fort Worth's structure aligns key partners, resources, and neighborhood leaders towards a new vision — a vision of Fort Worth where all of its neighborhoods are celebrated as drivers of economic change, allowing the city to compete at full-strength for businesses, resources and top talent.
The initiative is further supported by the 2022 refresh of the city's Economic Development Strategic Plan(PDF, 3MB).
The ultimate goal of Full-Strength Fort Worth's holistic approach is to create economic vitality and resiliency, while empowering the community and preserving each area's quality of place.
- Develop high-quality, sustainable investments in underserved communities, providing them with long-term economic resiliency.
- Create new opportunities and improve quality of life across Fort Worth's various neighborhoods.
- Design quality places and vibrant communities for residents and visitors alike.
- Collaborate with communities, local partners and outside organizations to develop strong commercial corridors.
- Support small business and entrepreneurship, and create job opportunities that can be supported by the surrounding neighborhoods.
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- Leverage resources to attract additional private investment opportunities, and provide more access to capital.
- Establish more mixed-income housing opportunities citywide.
- Minimize displacement while preserving the community and character of neighborhoods.
- Provide communities with access to economic development resources, empowering them to be active in the future of their neighborhoods.
- Guide future development by considering and preserving the cultural assets of Fort Worth's historic neighborhoods.
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Revitalization Target Areas
Full-Strength Fort Worth's areas of impact are focused along key commercial corridors within the Central City that are in need of revitalization, including the preservation of historical and cultural assets, redevelopment of pre-existing sites, and business attraction and retention, and community capacity-building.
While several of these areas include corridors in Fort Worth's east and southeast areas, there are also additional corridors throughout the city that require tailored, thoughtful revitalization efforts.
- Altamesa & McCart
- Camp Bowie West
- Como
- East Berry
- East Lancaster
- Historic Handley
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- Historic Southside
- Historic Northside
- Polytechnic Heights
- Riverside
- Stop Six
- Woodhaven
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View a PDF map of the City of Fort Worth's Revitalization Target Areas(PDF, 2MB)
Revitalization Toolkit
Each of Fort Worth's neighborhoods has its own distinct characteristics. That’s why a customized approach for revitalization and future development opportunities is required — it offers a flexibility that addresses each neighborhood’s needs, while also emphasizing each community's strengths and considering its personality.
That need for flexibility also informs the different tactics in the Full-Strength Fort Worth toolkit, which allows the City and its partners to be more adaptable in addressing the specific needs of each area. New tools can also be created or improved over time, paving the way for new tactics to help address old problems with creativity and intention.
There are a variety of tools in the Full-Strength Fort Worth toolkit that can be combined in different ways to create customized strategies for development and investment that are just as unique as the community itself.
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Customized, community-led transformation strategies
The Full-Strength Fort Worth initiative empowers neighborhoods to develop and lead customized revitalization plans that are unique to their specific goals and needs.
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New mixed-income housing
To make central-city housing options more affordable, a variety of different price points need to be available in the same area to help ensure that residents who are currently part of the community can still afford to live there.
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Alignment of incentives and resources
City incentives and other funding sources are focused on creating equitable, long-lasting investment in Fort Worth's various communities.
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Quality of life retail, and healthy food access
When a community has what it needs, it thrives. Access to nearby retailers, grocery stores, and walkable surroundings are critical to a neighborhood's overall health.
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City-led catalytic projects
The City of Fort Worth is taking the lead on projects that will inspire future development and investment in local neighborhoods.
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Storytelling and data
This initiative will use cutting-edge data to inform neighborhood strategies and tell the broader business story of each individual Fort Worth community.
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Support for entrepreneurship and small business
Small businesses, "mom and pop" establishments, and local entrepreneurs are the heart of Fort Worth. This initiative and its partnerships will help businesses like these grow and thrive.
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Community partnerships and capacity-building
The Full-Strength Fort Worth initiative is all about partnerships, both local and national, that will educate and empower communities to reach their fullest potential – helping attract the types of opportunities that make sense for the neighborhood.
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Access to capital
Increasing access to capital allows small businesses to scale, and redevelopment and reinvestment to occur.
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Placemaking and design
Each of Fort Worth's neighborhoods has its own personality, and those characteristics should be promoted, preserved, and celebrated by locals and visitors alike.
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Small-scale, incremental development
Small-scale development allows communities to grow gradually in size and scale, creating long-term change that still preserves the existing characteristics and personality of the area.
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Clean, safe, and beautiful
The creation of inviting environments can drive new opportunities for businesses to thrive and neighbors to connect.
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