The federal government has approved Fort Worth Housing Solutions’ application to convert 179 units of rental assistance previously assigned to Butler Place.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development assistance will now be held in a pool for use in future projects across the city. The government’s approval lets Housing Solutions move on to the next stage of planning the redevelopment of Butler Place — the historic 42-acre former public housing site near downtown, bounded by Interstate 35W, Interstate 30 and U.S. 287 — into what it expects will be a mixed-use site.
This “leads the way for us to move forward with looking at the next life of Butler,” Mary-Margaret Lemons, Housing Solutions president, said at the agency’s Sept. 25 board meeting, where it announced the news…