The city of Fort Worth is trying to revitalize a couple of neighborhoods with the help of Main Street America.
The program has been reviving downtowns in mostly smaller cities for decades, but also in a few larger cities.
The Northside neighborhood, in between downtown and the Stockyards, is one of two neighborhoods where the goal is to take boarded up businesses and empty storefronts and bring life back to the area. "I think what’s going to help the Northside the most is we already have a traffic pattern that will support business. We really just need to focus on bringing more businesses in," said Anette Landeros, who is president of the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
"Hopefully, this is an opportunity to bring in the community to be part of the revitalization. I think that’s the most important part of the development," Landeros said. "It used to be its own city back in the day, before it got annexed by Fort Worth," said Stacy Marshall, with Southeast Fort Worth Inc. "It needs a lot of help."
Over the next three years, Northside and Polytechnic will receive up to $270,000 in funding and grants, as well as a full-time employee to oversee the project.
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