Economic Development Transparency

The City of Fort Worth, in collaboration with the Fort Worth Economic Development Partnership (EDP), promotes the growth of Fort Worth's economy by encouraging targeted development and redevelopment projects. Incentives are one of the City's tools for attracting, retaining, and encouraging high-quality jobs and investments in Fort Worth.

Economic development incentives are negotiated on a case-by-case basis with new and expanding businesses subject to the qualifications, conditions, and requirements of the City of Fort Worth's tax abatement policy(PDF, 2MB) and Chapter 380 policy(PDF, 2MB). All incentive agreements are subject to approval by the Fort Worth City Council. 

Additionally, the City of Fort Worth's incentives are performance-based, with compliance checks completed annually. If a company doesn't meet their commitments, penalties are enforced in alignment with the project's terms – including reduction or forfeiture of the incentive.

Unless otherwise noted, the information on this page reflects active incentive agreements that have been both approved by City Council and executed, which means an agreement has been finalized and is currently in effect. Active projects that have not yet engaged in the City's compliance process as of the end of FY 2025 are noted in their respective sections.

Information on this page is based on data from September 30, 2025 (FY 2025).

Economic Development Summary

As of FY 2025, the City of Fort Worth is monitoring 10 active tax abatements and 36 active Chapter 380 agreements with executed contracts.

Approximately 24,259 local jobs have been created or retained over the lifetime of these agreements to date.

• Number of tax abatements and Chapter 380 agreements granted during the most recently completed fiscal year: 9
  • Chapter 380 agreements approved by Council in FY 2025: 5
  • Tax abatements approved by Council in FY 2025: 4
• Estimated total taxes abated or forgone in year one of current active agreements: $19,415,135.97
  • Chapter 380 agreements: $18,626,047.50
  • Tax abatements: $789,088.47
• Estimated taxes abated or forgone in year one of current active agreements per capita: $19.26
  Based on the population of Fort Worth (1,008,106) according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 report
  • Chapter 380 agreements: $18.48
  • Tax abatements: $0.78
• Estimated taxes abated or forgone for the life of current active agreements to date: $344,644,013.50
  • Chapter 380 agreements: $337,832,418.93
  • Tax abatements: $6,811,594.56
• Total capital investment received for current active agreements to date: $6,313,407,304.87 
  • Chapter 380 agreements: $5,752,671,009.87
  • Tax abatements: $560,736,295

Granted agreements include new projects that have been approved by City Council during each fiscal year. 

Amount of Grants Paid for Active Chapter 380 Projects Per Year (FY 2021-25)

Amount of Taxes Abated from Active Tax Abatements Per Year (FY 2021-25)

Chapter 380 agreements

Chapter 380 agreements allow the City to provide grants that are based on a percentage of the new incremental taxes created by the project – a combination of real property, business personal property, sales, or hotel occupancy taxes based on specific project requirements.

The grants are generally paid from new taxes generated during the prior year and are authorized under Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code.

The chart below shows all active Chapter 380 agreements during FY 2025 that are engaged in the City's compliance process. Information about each project's goals, current agreement holder, project cost, and benefit to Fort Worth can be found in the linked contracts, supporting documents, and the downloadable data set. 

* Denotes agreements that either expired or were terminated in 2025.

Active agreements may contain provisions that are no longer applicable or enforceable under current law. Such provisions do not affect the enforceability or validity of any other provisions of the agreements.

Download the Chapter 380 dataset (.xlsx)(XLSX, 13KB)

Additionally, the City of Fort Worth has several approved Chapter 380 agreements with executed contracts, which will become active in future years' updates pending their initial performance. These projects include:

• Ariat (Executed in 2021) – CSC 55376
• Ariat (Executed in 2025) – CSC 63862
• Clearfork, Phase II (Executed in 2024) – CSC 60448
• ITS Logistics (Executed in 2025) – CSC 062773
• McMaster-Carr (Executed in 2024) – CSC 60921
• Omni Hotel Expansion (Executed in 2023)
• The Vickery (Executed in 2024) – CSC 60378
• Van Zandt and One University – Goldenrod (Executed in 2025) – CSC 62077

Tax abatements

Tax abatements provide a full or partial exemption from new incremental ad-valorem taxes on real and/or business personal property for up to 10 years. These types of agreements are authorized under Chapter 312 of the Texas Tax Code. 

The chart below shows all active tax abatements during FY 2025 that are engaged in the City's compliance process. Information about each project's goals, current agreement holder, project cost, and benefit to Fort Worth can be found in the linked contracts, supporting documents, and the downloadable data set. 

* Denotes agreements that either expired or were terminated in 2025.

Active agreements may contain provisions that are no longer applicable or enforceable under current state law. Such provisions do not affect the enforceability or validity of any other provisions of the agreements.

Download the tax abatement dataset (.xlsx)(XLSX, 10KB)

Additionally, the City of Fort Worth has several approved tax abatements with executed contracts, which will become active pending their initial performance. These projects include:

• Americold (Executed in 2025) – CSC 62702
• Beauty Manufacturing Solutions (BMSC) (Executed in 2023) – CSC 59668
• DrinkPak (Executed in 2023) – CSC 60492
• RSI North America (Smart Cap) (Executed in 2023) – CSC 58678
• Siemens (Executed in 2024) – CSC 60417

Additional documents and resources

• GASB Statement No. 77(PDF, 329KB)

• Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Economic Development Corporation Report Search Tool