Architecture studio Lake Flato and HR&A Advisors have unveiled updated plans for a waterfront development that will reroute the Trinity River to create a mixed-use island in Fort Worth, Texas.
Created as part of the citywide Central City Flood Control Project, the Panther Island Project will transform 450 acres of land that are guarded by levees and fall within the Trinity River's floodplain into a "vibrant, mixed-use waterfront district" separated from the rest of the city by a natural bend in the river and new bypass channel.
Fort Worth's waterfront development will reroute the Trinity River to create a mixed-use island
Fort Worth City Council approved the original plan for the Panther Island Project in the early 2000s.
Now 20 years later, Texas architecture studio Lake Flato and US real estate and economic development consultants HR&A Advisors have revised the plans for "the largest, most consequential re-development opportunity near a major American downtown in the entire country". The revamped strategy to the original plan offers high quality waterfronts and urban green spaces for the local community
"The updated strategic vision seizes a once-in-a-lifetime development opportunity unmatched in the US to position Panther Island as a regional destination," Lake Flato's director of urban design and planning Justin Garrison told Dezeen.
"The vision builds upon the foundational ideas of previous plans plus existing site and infras...