Monday, December 8th @ 7:30 PM The Brazos Chamber Orchestra, along with the Field Street Baptist Choir, will perform Agnus Dei by Michael W. Smith and David Hamilton at the Field Street Baptist Church. Sunday, December 14th @ 7:30 PM
The Brazos Chamber Orchestra, along with the Pathway Sanctuary Choir, will perform Agnus Dei by Michael W. Smith and David Hamilton at the Center @ Pathway Church in Burleson.
Monday, December 15 @ 7:30 PM The Brazos Chamber Orchestra, along with the Brazos Chorus, will perform Agnus Dei by Michael W. Smith and David Hamilton at the Granbury First United Methodist Church.
These BCO Christmas concerts will be filled with songs of worship and praise! Come out and enjoy a Christmas celebration together.
Attached below are posters for all three venues. Please share via email with friends and family. Free Admission. Donations are appreciated.
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Free parking in downtown Fort Worth garages will be in your rearview mirror next year
by Bob Francis, Fort Worth Report November 18, 2025
If you celebrate into the wee hours of the new year, you might want to check where you parked or 2026 could begin with an expensive surprise.
The last free night and weekend garage parking in downtown Fort Worth disappears as the ball drops on Dec. 31, at least if you don’t have a proper receipt.
The downtown Fort Worth tax district that provided free night and weekend parking at two downtown garages is ending the program.
Some credited free parking at the City Center Garage, 400 Jones St., and the 777 Main parking garage, 601 Commerce St., with revitalizing the area. Many now worry about how ending it will impact businesses.
Andy Taft, president of Downtown Fort Worth Inc., the partnership that administers the tax district, said the group plans to work with businesses to develop a validation program that helps patrons — particularly those visiting restaurants, venues for the arts and retailers — with parking.
The 2,562 on-street parking spaces will remain free on weekends and after 6 p.m. on weekdays, Taft said.
Reata Restaurant president Mike Micallef worries that the end of the parking program could have a negative impact on downtown. Micallef notes, however, that his business and others at The Tower offer validation in that building’s garage, so it won’t be a big issue for them.
“But I hate to see it for downtown because, for shoppers or visitors, there are other developments that have well-designed parking plans that are free and just easier to navigate,” he said. “They can easily go somewhere else besides downtown.”
The downtown tax district has provided some form of free evening and weekend parking since 1999. Before that, Sundance Square offered a similar program to attract visitors to the then-fledgling 35-block area of downtown.
Those efforts helped downtown become a destination for locals and visitors alike.
“I feel like it was a big part of making this area what it is,” he said. “I hate to see anything that makes it more difficult for people to find us.”
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To find a parking spot downtown or at other areas of town, check out the aptly named Fort Worth Parking site.
Patrons of restaurants and retailers in Sundance Square can receive free 2.5-hour parking with validation at their garages at 345 W. 3rd St. and 201 W. 6th St.
Owners of the garages leaving the program did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
When Sundance Square left the free weekend and night parking program in June 2024, officials there cited increased demand for parking in their garages by Sundance tenants, employees and guests. Sundance Square went to a validation system for patrons of businesses there.
Officials with Fort Worth’s economic development department, which administers the tax districts, said they had no comment at this time.
According to the city of Fort Worth, the downtown taxing district paid $143,000 for space in the City Center garage and $327,500 for the 777 Main garage in fiscal year 2024. Other funds related to the program were $5,000 for marketing and $40,000 for parking garage insurance.
The tax district funds come from incremental tax dollars paid over a base year’s collections. The district then uses those funds to provide improvements and amenities, such as the free parking, tourism and convention business support, and assistance with public infrastructure projects in the downtown area.
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Cook Children’s to build $42 million parking garage
by Ismael M. Belkoura, Fort Worth Report October 2, 2025
Cook Children’s Health Care System is set to break ground early next year on the next phase of its expansion.
The hospital system is opening a new $42.9 million parking garage on the west side of the Medical District campus.
Eline deBruijn Wiggins, communications manager for the hospital system, said the Cook Children’s West Garage will be 309,000 square feet and will accommodate 504 vehicles to better “support our patients and their families and make parking easily accessible.”
“We are committed to being there for every child and look forward to opening our additional expansions,” she said.
The project, filed on a state licensing regulation website Sept. 26, will serve the future West Tower, a new 760,000-square-foot medical tower.
The parking garage will be on the corner of 8th and Terrell avenues. Project filings also mention a data center and a dock located in the basement. Construction start date is listed as April 1, 2026.
Cook Children’s West Garage is only a part of the medical system’s growth plan. Within the West Tower is a planned expansion and redesign of the pediatric intensive care unit. The Cook Children’s Heart Center will also see a redesign alongside additional capacity for operating rooms and imaging services.
Both projects are part of the 10-year master plan, which aims to expand Cook Children’s Health Care System’s Fort Worth campus.
This expansion comes at a time when the Medical District is seeing significant growth, with JPS Health Network, UT Southwestern, Baylor Scott & White Health, Medical City Fort Worth and Texas Health Resources orchestrating expansions or renovations.
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Woodhaven developer gets green light on preliminary plans for former country club
by Scott Nishimura, Fort Worth Report October 1, 2025
The owner of Woodhaven Country Club and golf course won city approval Wednesday for a preliminary plan to create mixed-use development at the east Fort Worth site.
After another contentious debate, members of the City Plan Commission voted 6-2 to find the proposed redevelopment posed “no material adverse effect” on single-family property values and 7-1 to approve two related zoning waivers and its plat — a preliminary plan laying out dimensions and locations of parcels, streets and other features.
In order to allow a replat of a golf course, state law requires a city to find the plan will have “no material adverse effect” on existing single-family property values.
Nearby resident Erika Graham said a group of opponents wants to take the matter to court. Graham, whose house backs up to one of the fairways, said plans to extend Country Club Lane through Woodhaven to Randol Mill Road would hurt her property, meaning she’d then likely need to sell her home at a discount.
“We’re going to talk to attorneys and move for an injunction,” she said, questioning whether the city intended to give opponents a fair hearing.
“The fix is in,” she said.
The city’s preliminary plat approval frees Crescendo to market parcels of land on the property to other developers. Crescendo owner Will Northern has said he will likely build out infrastructure such as streets, sidewalks and the like before selling parcels to developers who’d then build out a mix of uses, ranging from multi and single-family to retail and other commercial. Opponents have zeroed in on the planned multi-family part of Northern’s plan, saying more multi-family will continue to hurt Woodhaven, which has a number of aging apartment complexes.
The City Plan Commission has the final say on a preliminary plat. But once Crescendo sells parcels, those developers then must seek approval of their site plans from the Fort Worth Zoning Commission and Fort Worth City Council — giving opponents more opportunity to weigh in.
The hearing was the third since August as the commissioners urged nearby homeowners and Northern to reach a consensus. The commission’s work is usually routine with little controversy.
The Fort Worth Zoning Commission earlier this year approved various land uses for the Woodhaven project. Opponents focused on planned multi-family in the development. Northern has said “cottage”-style uses are the most likely multi-family to develop on the property.
Several speakers spoke against the plans. Former Fort Worth council member Becky Haskin said Northern’s plan would “dismember” the neighborhood.
Northern stressed to commissioners again that bringing new life to the empty golf course would buoy property values in Woodhaven, which hasn’t seen new development in decades.
The area’s growth “comes with tremendous demand,” which typically increases values, he told commissioners.
The company, at the city’s request, had an economic analysis done that looked at the redevelopment of two Texas golf courses. Single-family property values rose around those projects, according to the study at the September city plan meeting.
In his testimony to the commission, Stone summarized that typical causes of materially adverse effects — such as heavy manufacturing, wastewater treatment, hazardous material storage, energy production, power lines and wind farms — were not present in this case.
He echoed that values typically increase as a result of developments like the one being proposed.
Several speakers spoke for approval of the preliminary plat, saying Woodhaven needs the investment.
Commissioner CJ Johnson, representing City Council District 5, where the club property is, made both motions Wednesday. The dissenting votes on the finding of no material adverse effect were Commissioner John Reed and Vice Chair Jim Tidwell. Reed was the lone no vote on the motion to approve the waivers and preliminary plat.
Tidwell led the meeting after Chairman Don Boren recused himself at the commission’s previous meeting Sept. 17 due to his presidency of the East Fort Worth Business Association, which previously endorsed Northern’s plans. Boren was not present at Wednesday’s meeting.
Crescendo purchased the property for $8.5 million at a foreclosure auction in May 2024 after Woodhaven Country Club LLC defaulted on a $12 million loan.
Doug Wilhelm is a member of the Fort Worth Report’s Documenters crew.
New Japanese restaurant to open in Viridian shopping center
by Lance Murray, Arlington Report September 24, 2025
A new Japanese restaurant and bar is on its way to the Viridian neighborhood in north Arlington that will feature sushi, sashimi and a host of other Japanese cuisine favorites.
The Nyomi Sushi & Bloom – Japanese Grill and Kitchen is expected to open by the end of the year in the Legacy at Viridian shopping center at 4060 N. Collins, owner Sandeep Shahi said.
Shahi said that he’s working on the plans for the 2,400-square-foot restaurant with a patio.
“We’re going to have sushi that’s going to be the main focus. And we’re going to have noodles and chicken side items,” Shahi said. “We’re going to have the nigiri and sashimi that’s going to be from the sushi menu.” Shahi said. Nigiri is a type of sushi that consists of a thin slice of raw fish placed on a small ball of sushi rice.
Shahi said that Nyomi will combine traditional sushi craftsmanship with an extensive Japanese kitchen concept.
It will feature artfully prepared sushi, sashimi, izakaya-style hot plates, bento boxes and seasonal chef’s specials. The bar will offer handcrafted cocktails, curated sake and premium wines, he said.
Shahi and his wife, Nisha Ghalan, have lived in the Viridian neighborhood for two years and said the family-run operation will have seating for 76 and will fill a niche in the north Arlington area.
“In that area, we don’t have a Japanese restaurant,” Shahi said. “And the problem is, we don’t have a fine dining or upscale vibey type of restaurant, especially (on) the Japanese side, where people could go and enjoy the vibe.”
Shahi said that the restaurant’s ambience is important.
“The ambience, not just the food, but the ambience overall, there’s not so many out there in that area,” Shahi said. “We don’t have a Japanese restaurant out there, so we want to make sure that we cater our family with the Japanese way, and then also with the ambience.”
Shahi said he wants to establish a cherry blossom theme in the restaurant.
“We’re going to have little trees popping out in the restaurant from the bar, so they could enjoy that Japanese cherry bloom type of environment,” he said.
Shahi said that Nyomi is expected to open for dinner service first, followed by weekend brunch and lunch offerings in later phases.
Shahi said that he expects physical work to begin on the restaurant next month.
Lance Murray is a freelance contributor covering business for the Arlington Report.
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Chisholm Trail Parkway’s 13-mile widening advances with NTTA approval of contracts
by Eric E. Garcia, Fort Worth Report May 28, 2025
Construction will begin this summer for a $250 million, 13-mile expansion of the tolled Chisholm Trail Parkway.
Contracts for the project’s construction, construction management and materials testing — totaling $188.9 million — were unanimously approved May 21 by the nine-member board of directors for the North Texas Tollway Authority, or NTTA.
NTTA spokesperson Michael Rey said a construction start date has not yet been determined but added that “we anticipate work to begin in approximately two months.”
The agency will widen the Fort Worth area parkway from two to four lanes from Crowley Plover Road/FM 1187 in Tarrant County to U.S. Highway 67 in Johnson County.
The expansion is expected to be open to traffic in late 2028, weather permitting.
The project will be paid through the NTTA’s capital improvement fund, which collects tolls on the agency’s tollways. Chisholm Trail Parkway tolls along the entire route range from about $7 to about $13, depending on the type of payment service used.
NTTA’s year-to-date 2025 revenue is $313.6 million, slightly below 2024’s year-to-date revenue of $313.1 million, data from NTTA Chief Financial Officer Horatio Porter’s presentation to the board showed.
About $65.2 million in cash is available for transfer to the agency’s capital improvement fund.
The North Texas Tollway Authority plans to widen the Chisholm Trail Parkway from Crowley Plover Road/FM 1187 in Tarrant County to U.S. Highway 67 in Johnson County. (Courtesy image | North Texas Tollway Authority)
Planning underway for tollway ramps
The NTTA construction won’t include highway entrance and exit ramps that local motorists say are needed to seamlessly connect to Chisholm Trail Parkway from Interstate 20 in southwest Fort Worth.
That project, which will be coordinated by the Texas Department of Transportation, is still being planned, said agency spokesperson Val Lopez.
“The ramps are in the planning phase with a timeline still being determined,” Lopez told the Report via email.
The tollway’s expansion is prompting increased economic development in some cities south of Fort Worth. Among the developments are Cleburne Station, a 75-acre public-private mixed-use development that will include retail shops, restaurants and office space centered around a minor league baseball park and entertainment venue, and Craftmasters, a new trade school in Burleson expected to serve up to 5,000 students.
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