Construction sounds are the certain sounds of change, clinging and clanging all over Fort Worth's Linwood neighborhood.
"A year ago, across from Montgomery Plaza was nothing but a field and some small houses," says local realtor Susanna Gorski, "and now there's four-story, five-story buildings going up."
Just north of the popular W. 7th Street drag, you too might have noticed a recent surge in brand-new housing developments. Projects like Elan W. 7th, a 374-unit complex partially opening this month, and a smaller 38-unit development, are some of the newest buildings popping up. The two projects alone stand to bring in more than 1,000 new residents to an area that, for nearly 15 years, has been barren and beaten up.
In 2000, the so-called "Fort Worth Tornado" carved its unforgiving path right through Linwood, just west of downtown.
"It was really, totally devastated," Gorski says. Now the realtor says Linwood has become one of the fastest growing and fastest changing neighborhoods in the city.
"Investors got savvy," she says. "It's a great location. It's the proximity to everything you want to see and do in Fort Worth."
Eric Little is developing the 38-unit project for Crimson Building Company.
"I think this is going to be completely redeveloped over the next five to 10 years," Little says. "It's not going to look anything like it does now."
A changing landscape, this time by choice.
