Dirt turns on new Fort Worth water treatment plant
The Dallas office of McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. began work on the $47 million Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant, set to have an initial treatment capacity of 12 million gallons of water per day.
At completion, the facility, which is located at 12200 Old Weatherford Road in Fort Worth, will treat raw water from the recently installed Tarrant Regional Water District 90-inch raw water main that connects Eagle Mountain Lake with the East Texas water supply in Cedar Creek and Richland-Chambers reservoirs. It will then distribute the treated water to the Fort Worth’s West Side.
The project’s 70,000 square feet of facilities, which sit on about 34 acres of land, include an operations building, wash water recovery basins, a recycle pump station, a 2.5 million gallon ground storage tank, a high-service pump station, an ozone chemical building, an electrical building and related site and civil work.
Construction for the Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant project began in August and is slated for completion in January 2012. The engineer for the project is CDM.
RV park to see $2.5 million renovation
Burleson RV Ranch Owner Ronnie Bowyer plans to invest about $2.5 million in improvements to his RV campsite and luxury cabin property at 2301 S. Burleson Blvd. including adding a amphitheatre and changing the name of the RV park.
In a release, Bower said improvements will begin at the newly dubbed Rustic Creek Ranch this winter and will extend through the next 12 to 24 months. The improvements include installation of decorative paving and curbing of campsites throughout the park as well as construction of a playground, a covered picnic area for family reunions, complete with barbecue grills and electrical outlets for cooking, a dog run and 150-seat outdoor amphitheatre.
Currently, Rustic Creek Ranch features as many as 248 RV campsites and has 37 luxury cabins. No contractors have been named for the project.
Local contractors pick up project
AUI Contractors of Fort Worth was selected by Liberty Mutual Surety to be the completing contractor of an apartment project on the campus of the Texas Masonic Retirement Center in Arlington. The five-story, 55,000-square-foot building was almost 40 percent complete when AUI assumed its management.
The project’s estimated completion date is summer 2010.
The structure contains a parking garage, offices and physical therapy space and 12 two-bedroom duplex units, independent living quarters, and a nursing center on the upper levels.
LBL Architects of Arlington provided architectural services for the project.
Bank leases space in Burnett Plaza
Bank of Texas leased 7,034 square feet of office space at Burnett Plaza at 801 Cherry St. in downtown Fort Worth. David Walters and Will James with Jones Lang LaSalle represented the tenant. Jack Clark of NAI Huff Partners represented the landlord, Behringer Harvard Burnett Plaza.
Fort Worth Club space taken
Hodges Cos. leased 4,302 square feet of office space at 306 W. 7th Street in downtown Fort Worth. Pat McDowell with Jones Lang LaSalle represented the tenant. Walter Littlejohn, of the Fort Worth Club, represented the landlord, the Fort Worth Club of Texas.
Office deals inked in Bedford
Two leases were signed at 3901 Airport Freeway in Bedford: Texas Baptist Home for Children, an adoption firm, leased 1,763 square feet of space; and United Investex, a residential/construction company, leased 1,600 square feet of space from Trader Properties.
Cody Payne with Sperry Van Ness represented Trader Properties in both transactions.
Law office signs lease at Fort Worth’s Oncor Building
The Law Offices of Grisham & Barnes P.C. signed a 4,300-square-foot lease at the Oncor building in downtown Fort Worth. Theron Bryant with SCM Real Estate represented the landlord in the transaction and Greg Cagle with Canvas Realty Partners represented the tenant.
Arlington architecture firm wraps up work in New Mexico
Arlington-based Ascension Group Architects has completed work on the $8.5 million expansion and renovation of Eastern New Mexico Medical Center in Roswell, NM.
Work included a 14,500 square-foot expansion of the emergency department, which features three trauma rooms, 16 exam rooms and a computerized tomography room. There’s also space for a chest X-ray room in the future.
Grand Prairie medical space fills
MT Training Center leased 4,253 square feet of medical space at 2701 Osler Drive in Grand Prairie from JHH Enterprises LC for a medical career training facility. David Keal with Aubrey Keal Commercial Real Estate Ltd. negotiated the transaction for JHH Enterprises.
Time Warner leases Fort Worth office
Time Warner leased 3,705 square feet of office space at 1320 S. University Drive in Fort Worth. The landlord, Omni American Bank, was represented by Frank Taylor with Jones Lang LaSalle.
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