city of Fort Worth

Fort Worth’s Trashion Fashion Show Will Celebrate Recycled Materials. Here’s How You Can Walk the Catwalk

by | Mar 11, 2026
Hosted by Keep Fort Worth Beautiful, the March 28 Trashion Fashion Show encourages participants to create clothing or accessories using reclaimed, reused, or discarded materials. Entries must be at least 50% trash or recyclable materials. Deadline to enter is March 25.
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Asset Panda Launches Pro Platform With AI to Tackle Enterprise Tech’s Time-to-Value Chasm
by | Dec 26, 2025
Founder Rex Kurzius has spent more than a decade bootstrapping his Frisco-based asset management platform to 4,000 organizations tracking more than 20 million assets. This fall, he rolled out Asset Panda Pro with Ursa AI to speed configuration work that traditionally slows enterprise deployments.
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Hillwood, BNSF Railway, and City of Fort Worth Launch the Alliance Logistics District
by | Nov 20, 2025
Spanning nearly 1,400 acres, the district gives companies the right to deploy semi- and fully autonomous vehicles along roadways in the freight corridor, supporting next-generation logistics and automation. Regulatory barriers and heavy-haul freight permits have also been eased to save costs, enhance connectivity, and improve efficiency.
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The Last Word: Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker On Film Becoming the City’s Next Great Industry
Fort Worth’s film industry has boomed with nearly $1 billion in impact, 50,000 jobs, and Taylor Sheridan's 101 Studios planning to move its HQ to the city, NBC DFW reports.
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New Director Named for Fort Worth Economic Development

by | Aug 20, 2025
Jessica Rogers will lead Fort Worth’s economic development strategy, focusing on business recruitment and retention, workforce development, small business development, and creating a vibrant and diverse economy,
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Biosensors to Robotic Assistants: How 11 Startups Showed Their Stuff at Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Demo Day
Taking the stage at Tannahills Tavern and Music Hall in Fort Worth were startups from as close as Southlake and Dallas and as far away as London and Nigeria. Their shared vision, Managing Director Trey Bowles said, was to "improve health outcomes and support a market opportunity that's global in scale."
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$80M Federal Grant Fuels Launch of Hillwood’s AllianceTexas Smart Port, a ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ Project
The $262M public-private initiative—a partnership of Hillwood, TxDOT, NCTCOG, the City of Fort Worth, and the City of Haslet—aims to transform logistics with real-time tracking.
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Brazil’s Embraer To Invest up to $70M in New Regional Jet Facility at Fort Worth’s Perot Field
by | Oct 16, 2024
The company said it expects to begin operations in an existing hangar next year while building a second hangar that should be finished by 2027 to support its growing fleet of regional E-Jets.
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Texas A&M-Fort Worth Gets $2.5M Grant from Sid W. Richardson Foundation

by | Mar 5, 2024
The A&M system said the donation builds on the support of a growing list of public and private partners—and places Texas A&M-Fort Worth in position to be a major hub for education, research, and innovation for years to come.
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Fort Worth Kicks Off 20-Year Convention Center Expansion With $95M Phase 1
by | Dec 20, 2023
The city says the multi-phase expansion is "finally underway" to upgrade facilities, increase capacity, and deliver an elevated experience for Fort Worth’s $3 billion annual visitor industry.
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Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Wraps Another Successful Year at 2023 Demo Day

The audience was spirited, cheering from their seats and giving each entrepreneur a standing ovation as they approached the stage. This was no “TED talk” … it was the Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth pitch and demo night—a showcase of innovation and demonstration of lessons learned in the accelerator. ...

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City of Fort Worth Joins North Texas Innovation Alliance
by | Nov 6, 2023
The NTXIA said that Fort Worth's coming on board signifies "a major step" toward the city's continued commitment to enhancing quality of life, safety, public health, and welfare of residents in the region through "a data-driven approach." The Panther City joins more than 40 municipalities, agencies, corporations, and academic institutions already in the alliance.
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Texas A&M System Approves New Tarleton State Biotech Institute in Downtown Fort Worth

by | Sep 1, 2023

Tarleton State University received the go-ahead for a new biotechnology institute as part of Texas A&M-Fort Worth’s burgeoning downtown research campus.

Approved in mid-August by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, the biotech institute is situated in one of the nation’s fastest-growing life sciences hubs.

“More than 5,000 biotechnology manufacturing and research and development firms — think Novartis, Alcon, AstraZeneca — call Texas home,” according to the university....

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The Last Word: HSC’s Cameron Cushman on Fort Worth’s ‘Guide to Starting a Small Business’ Webpage
by | Aug 4, 2023
"No matter where you are in your startup journey, the City of Fort Worth's "Guide to Starting a Small Business" webpage directs small business owners to local resources—all in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide," the post reads.
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Groundbreaking: Fortune 500 Company Joins Texas A&M Fort Worth’s Landmark Campus Project
Dignitaries dug in today at the groundbreaking for Texas A&M Fort Worth. Construction will begin with the $150 million Law & Education Building, part of a three-building urban research campus. Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp says the campus will be "a magnet for economic growth for the North Texas region.”
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Fort Worth’s Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum Is Getting an $8.5M Facelift
by | Feb 21, 2023
The Will Rogers Memorial Center, anchor of Fort Worth's famed cultural district, is getting a major renovation of its historic art deco coliseum's concourse, grand lobby entrance, and Backstage Club. “The Will Rogers Coliseum is beloved by millions of visitors who have created memories here for 86 years,” said Mike Crum, director of public events for the city of Fort Worth. “We're investing in the facility to ensure its historic charm and elegance continue to impress millions more in future generations.”
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