The Rev. Carl Pointer sits on a couch in the William M. McDonald YMCA as people of all ages and ethnicity work out behind him.
Pointer reminisces about how the community around him in southeast Fort Worth has emerged. The YMCA itself — which opened in 2019 at 2701 Moresby St. — is part of that development story.
The land in the area was originally owned by the Masonic Home and School of Texas, a home for widows and orphans of Masons, along U.S. 287 near East Berry Street, between Vaughn and Mitchell boulevards…