09/15/2026
Fort Worth built its name on cattle. It's right there in the nickname, Cowtown, and in the longhorn herd that still gets driven past the stockyards every day like nothing's changed since 1902. What the nickname leaves out is that this same city holds three major art museums within walking distance of each other: the Kimbell, designed by Louis Kahn, the Tadao Ando-designed Modern, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Downtown carries both sides at once. Sundance Square fills up on weeknights with people heading to Bass Performance Hall for the symphony or the ballet, then the same streets fill up again every January when the Stock Show rolls through, and the rhythm shifts for a few weeks and Fort Worth turns back into the cattle town it started as, if only for a season. A few miles over, TCU football Saturdays change the whole rhythm of the city each fall.
The weekends in Fort Worth start on a bike path. Trinity Trails run for miles along the river, cutting through downtown before splitting off toward neighborhoods like Near Southside, where Magnolia Avenue keeps its sidewalks full of people heading to breakfast, then a bookstore, then a brewery by early afternoon.
West 7th picks up where Magnolia leaves off, with rooftop patios and live music that carries into the evening, close enough to Sundance Square that a night out downtown never really requires a plan.
Shelby at Northside, Mercantile River District, Broadway Chapter, and Laurel Heights at Cityview are four apartment communities built for a city that isn't finished writing its own story, all located right here in Fort Worth, TX.
Come see what put Fort Worth on the map, and what's kept it there since. Find your Fort Worth community at alapts.com.
