Downtown Fort Worth

A year ago today, 21 people were injured in an explosion at the Signature Sandman Hotel in downtown Fort Worth. A lot has happened since then.

The Dallas-based firm acquired 4.6 acres of property adjacent to the former library site downtown for more development. Company officials have not given many hints as to what they plan to do with the property yet.

Fort Worth City Council voted Aug. 13 to purchase the building for about $6.5 million, with the intent to renovate it for library use in the future. The approximately 31,500-square-foot building currently houses the Center for Transforming Lives, a nonprofit agency focused on reducing poverty among women and children in Tarrant County.

Just over a year after Fort Worth closed its central library branch, a new permanent downtown library location could be on the horizon.

Texas A&M Fort Worth’s dream of building a 3.5-acre urban college research and innovation campus downtown just got a multimillion-dollar infusion of cash.

Fort Worth’s Burnett Plaza tower could face foreclosure following a move by the lender, Pinnacle Bank.

Downtowns across the country responded differently to the exiting of office workers during the pandemic.

The Jan. 8 explosion at the Sandman Signature Hotel in the Waggoner Building at 810 Houston St. left 21 people injured — one critically, according to first responders.

Billions of dollars in projects are coming to the southeast corner of downtown Fort Worth over the next decade. For now, the only physical signs of progress are a couple of excavators and construction fencing near the convention center’s southeast entrance.

Graham Jackson felt the nearby explosion at the Sandman Signature Hotel rattle his chest. That reverberation continued Tuesday for businesses nearby.

As first responders continue to investigate the cause of an explosion at the Sandman Signature Fort Worth Downtown Hotel, public health experts say the fallout could cause issues for people’s health.

Fire and police are working with Atmos Energy, the hotel’s natural gas provider, to determine whether a gas leak caused the explosion or an explosion caused the gas leak, Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis said.