Sundance Square has become one of Fort Worth's premiere shopping destinations; conveniently located near two major highways and DFW Airport, they feature over 100 stores, restaurants, services and boutique shops.
View from the southwest Burnett Plaza 11 567 ft 40 skyscraper 1983 2 View from Main Street D.R. Horton Tower [City Center Towers] 4 547 ft 38 skyscraper 1984 3 Looking up Carter+Burgess Plaza 3 525 ft 40 skyscraper 1983 4 View from the southeast The Tower 15 488 ft 35 skyscraper 1974 5 View from Commerce Street Wells Fargo Tower [City Center Towers] 1 477 ft 33 skyscraper 1982 6 Distant view of the near complete structure from the northwest Omni Fort Worth Hotel 1 447 ft 33 skyscraper 2009 7 Transmission Tower 441 ft mast (wired) 8 Looking up from Main Street Landmark Tower [XTO Energy] 2 380 ft 30 skyscraper 1957 9 View from the northeast Chesapeake Plaza 10 325 ft 20 high-rise building 2004 10 TXU North Main Power Plant Smoke Stack 2 [TXU North Main Power Plant] 322 ft chimney 1921 11 Looking up 714 Main 2 307 ft 24 high-rise building 1921 12 Transmission Tower 307 ft mast (framework) 13 Looking up from West Seventh Bank of America Center [500 West 7th] 2 300 ft 21 high-rise building 1961 14 View looking north from Lancaster Avenue AT&T Building 2 295 ft 17 high-rise building 1958 15 KTCU-FM Tower 289 ft mast (framework) 1979 16 Medical Arts Building 280 ft 19 high-rise building 1927 17 Transmission Tower 280 ft mast (framework) 18 Transmission Tower 274 ft mast (wired) 19 Looking up from Main Street Blackstone Hotel 4 268 ft 20 high-rise building 1929 20 View from Throckmorton Street Commerce Building [Commerce/Oil and Gas] 2 260 ft 19 high-rise building 1930
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Fort Worth Water Gardens - A 4.3-acre (17,000 m2) contemporary park, designed by architect Philip Johnson, that features three unique pools of water offering a calming and cooling oasis for downtown patrons. The gardens were used in the finale of the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run. (In mid-2004 the Water Gardens had to be closed due to several drownings. It has reopened after preventive measures have been installed.)
Fort Worth Convention Center - Includes an 11,200 seat multi-purpose arena.
Bass Performance Hall - Bass Hall is the permanent home to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Texas Ballet Theater, Fort Worth Opera, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and Cliburn Concerts.
Tarrant County Courthouse stands at the north end of Main Street. It has been remodeled over the years and the exterior was used frequently in Walker, Texas Ranger.
The Hilton Fort Worth opened in 1921 and was the location of where John F. Kennedy last stayed before he was assassinated in Dallas.
The Omni Fort Worth Hotel opened January 12, 2009 and was the first new downtown hotel construction in over 20 years. Its former estimated height was around 547 ft (167 m), but it has been down-sized by 100 feet (30 m).
The Tower, formerly the Bank One Tower, was severely damaged in the March 28, 2000 tornado. It was converted into a residential tower in 2004. Before the redevelopment, The Tower was covered in plywood and metal panels, and considered to be demolished. The Tower now has a new facade and a new top feature that makes it the fourth tallest building in the city.
City Center Development features two twin towers. One is the 38 story D.R. Horton Tower (1984), and the other is the 33 story Wells Fargo Tower (1982). From the top, they are shaped like pinwheels.
Fort Worth is home to the Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best collections in the world, and housed in what is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost works of modern architecture. Also of note are the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Amon Carter Museum, the latter of which houses one of the most extensive collections of American art in the world, in a building designed by Philip Johnson. The city is also home to Texas Christian University and Texas Wesleyan University and many multinational corporations including Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, American Airlines, Radio Shack, and others.
Fort Worth is the sixteenth most populous city in the United States of America and the fifth most populous city in the state of Texas.[8] Located in North Central Texas, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) in Tarrant, Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties, serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2010 Census, Fort Worth had a population of 741,206.[5][9][10] The city is the second most populous in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. The city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design.[11][12] USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city.
Sundance Square has become one of Fort Worth's premiere shopping destinations; conveniently located near two major highways and DFW Airport, they feature over 100 stores, restaurants, services and boutique shops.
Fort Worth is home to an endless array of fantastic neighborhoods that boast some of the finest luxury and custom homes in the DFW Area.