Artist's Rendering Of Sundance Plaza From The Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
I blogged about this in a blogging titled I Love Downtown Fort Worth & The Biggest Comic Strip In Texas That Surrounds Sundance Square.
So, what do I read in this morning's Fort Worth Star-Telegram in an article titled Sundance Plaza will feature fountain, pavilion and large shaded area?
Well, a group of so-called executives executing the non-existent Sundance Square have "revealed the long-awaited plans for the 1-acre plaza, to be located on former parking lots between Third and Fourth streets and Houston and Commerce in the heart of downtown Fort Worth, during a meeting of the Downtown Design Review Board today."
So, I was misinformed by Downtown Fort Worth, Inc. Apparently, at the present time, there is no square under construction in the misnomered Sundance Square.
This proposed square, I mean plaza, whose plans have now been revealed, covers only one acre? And will be called Sundance Plaza? Thus continuing to confuse tourists in their search for the still non-existent Sundance Square?
According to one of downtown Fort Worth's chief propagandists, Ed Bass, the plaza has been part of the downtown master plan for over 2 decades.
In a sentence which really makes no sense Bass says, "We always envisioned a beautiful plaza that would be the fabric of our wonderful city and is now set to become a vibrant social centerpiece reflecting the best of a lively downtown."
This plaza will be the fabric of this wonderful city? Becoming a vibrant social centerpiece? This one acre plaza will reflect the best of a lively downtown?
This is just embarrassing.
One acre?
With four 40 x 40 feet umbrellas lit by led lights?
A 2,000 square foot glass pavilion? 2,000 square feet? That's like the size of a big apartment.
The pavilion is designed in the English garden style? Why not designed in the Texas garden style? I shudder to wonder what a pavilion designed in the English garden style is going to look like in downtown Fort Worth.
The article in the Star-Telegram makes no mention of when the one acre Sundance Plaza is scheduled to open.
2 comments:
It took 20 years to decide to plow a couple of parking lots under. Perhaps in another 20, they might actually bring in the heavy equipment. This torrid pace is what we'd expect out of a place like, well, like DALLAS!
I tell you, Steve A, it was just jaw dropping bizarre to read that Sundance Plaza story today. I guess the non-torrid pace is due to the fact that Texans are immortal, living forever, that things take so incredibly long to do here, with it taking 20 years to turn 2 parking lots into a square. I mean plaza.
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