There's a lot to this project but I'll try to give it all in summary right now.
-The project is focusing on rerouting the Trinity River in the area North of downtown and south of the historic Stockyards district. It serves as both a flood control project and an urban revitalization project. Currently, the area of the TRV is mostly light industrial and abandoned.
-The Panther Island moniker is more or less the name of the vision area near downtown. It was formerly known as "Trinity Uptown". The TRV as whole encompass's several other parts of the river downstream.
-At the current moment, the project is mostly in demolition phase. A few rerouted roads have been built for construction of the future bridges. There are various utilities that have been relocated aswell. No major milestones have really been meet.
-It is projected that up to 10,000 units of housing and 3 million square feet of retail will be a part of the project.
-Funding has been an issue. Currently the projected cost is around
910 million.
-Three new bridges are being planned for the project on North Main, Henderson, and White Settlement. The bridges will be some of the first things constructed as part of the project. Initially they will go over the empty dirt canals before they are flooded. Bridges are scheduled to be completed by 2017 and started this year.
-LaGrave Field, the historic stadium which is home of minor league Soccer and Baseball will be incorporated into the project.
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Ned Kahn has been called upon to design artwork that will be place in the center of the Henderson street roundabout.
-Several canals and smaller channels will be built as part of the plan. A large central lake will also be incorporated just north of downtown. It is part of the goal to allow boats to be used for recreation and transportation around the city.
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Randall Stout Architects are designing 4 pedestrian bridges. Cost of these alone is 13.1 Million.
-Estimated completion time for the canals and bridges is around 2024, but no hard target date is set.
-In the meantime, the project area has a few entertainment venues built. Concerts are held on the riverbank, a drive in movie theater has been built, and this winter an outdoor skating rink was opened.
And that's the gist of it. Here are some rendering of the project.
The plan view of project.
Panther Island/Central City by
Trinity River Vision, on Flickr
Conceptual view of what the entire project would look like. While the channels, bridges and parks are all public funded, the developments shown should all be private.
Trinity Uptown - Looking South by
Trinity River Vision, on Flickr
However, there are guidelines in place as to how development should occur. As an example of that, here is the height guidelines of buildings in the district. You can read more about developmental guidelines
here.
What a view down the channels could look like.
Trinity Uptown - Behind Middle Control Gate by
Trinity River Vision, on Flickr
A rendering of the Henderson street bridge, which should be one of the first parts of the project completed.
Henderson Street Bridge Rendering Fort Worth Texas by
Trinity River Vision, on Flickr
Further down the river is the 1,000 acre gateway park. Here's a part of the planned progress there.
6,500-seat Outdoor Amphitheater in Gateway Park by
Trinity River Vision, on Flickr
And here is a GIF I've made showing the progress of demolition going on in the area of the project, made using google earth. Much of what has been removed is industrial in nature. I assume that some of the smaller commercial structures and the TXU energy plant will be left, restored and incorporated into the project.
If you are wanting to learn more about the project,
Trinity River Vision's website has a load more information, and you can follow a more detailed discussion over on
Fort Worth Architecture's forum. TRV's
Flickr page also contains more renderings, as well as progress updates and pictures from events taking place at the various venues.
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