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By GENE TRAINOR FW Star Telegram
FORT WORTH — Political, community and Texas Wesleyan University leaders celebrated the $1.2 million renovation of a 5,000-square-foot historical building Friday as a prelude to the revitalization of a Polytechnic Heights neighborhood.
The refurbished building will house offices, a dining area and a community center. Its reopening coincides with more than $2 million in renovations of buildings across the road in the 3000 and 3100 blocks of Rosedale Street. The university bookstore, operated by a private company, will be the first tenant in mid-January, said Phillip Poole, a partner with the TownSite Company, the developer of the $2 million-plus project.
"It's good to see it come back," Poole said. "It's nice to be a part of putting it all together."
The 5,000-square-foot Texas Wesleyan building at Rosedale and Wesleyan streets will be named after Maxine and Edward Lawrence Baker, the parents of Texas Wesleyan Trustee and Fort Worth philanthropist Louella Baker Martin.
The building was constructed in 1927-28 and housed a dry cleaner, a grocery store and a bank. |
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