The city of Fort Worth is asking Tarrant County College to consider a historic designation for the shuttered 113-year-old TXU North Main Power Plant to protect the building from demolition.
After TCC confirmed in mid-October the 8-acre property was for sale, the nonprofit preservation organization Historic Fort Worth asked Mayor Mattie Parker and members of the Fort Worth City Council to nominate the plant as a city of Fort Worth Historic and Cultural Landmark and “work toward a nomination for the National Register of Historic Places.”
Historic Fort Worth officials said the designations would position the future property owner for substantial financial incentives…