“It’s basically a little walkable village with different nodes for lifestyle.”
Barry Hand
Principal and Cities & Urban Design Leader
Gensler’s Dallas Office
.…on the planned $2 billion River Central mixed-use development along the Trinity River south of DFW Airport, via the Dallas Morning News.
Barry Hand
River Central—a planned 400-acre mixed-use development—is slated to spread along the meandering Trinity River through Fort Worth and Grand Prairie south of DFW Airport.
“All the way across, it’s intended to be a walkable experience,” Hand told the Dallas Morning News’ José Sánchez Córdova.
David Hasenzahl, a principal at Hasen Design Build & Development and a managing partner for the River Central project, told the Dallas Business Journal the planned development is a floodplain reclamation project that will see his team collaborating with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Hasenzahl told the Dallas Business Journal that River Central will “definitely be high end” and described it as “a bigger, grander destination” that an ordinary living space. It’s slated to feature a 140-room hotel, 120,000 square feet of office space, a 56,000-square-foot live music venue, 60,000 square feet of retail, 125 townhomes, 1,200 apartments, and 50 acres of open space, the DBJ reports.
You can read more about the project in the DMN story here and the DBJ story here.
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