Posted Apr 22, 2026, 3:50 PM
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Pretty sure they have permits out for the foundation work on that site now, so things should start (finally) moving. I would expect a pretty slow roll though. Doubt that the project will be completed before 2030.
It speaks less to the poor behaviour of the developer and more to the broken incentives in this and many other cities that a sandlot can sit empty in the middle of a downtown for so long. I mean, I'm almost 30 years old and I have no living memory of this "texpark" to which older members refer. For basically my whole life this has been a gravel lot. It's been empty so long they had to remove mature trees from the site when they began prep.
I expect this developer to put up quite the fuss with this bedford lot sale. They should definitely expropriate and just get on with it. Otherwise, he'll probably hold the project hostage trying to get a windfall (opportunism).
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