FORT WORTH, TX – The former Butler Place public housing project, a New Deal-era apartment complex east of downtown Fort Worth, is positioned for potential commercial redevelopment after eight decades of serving generations of residents.
Opened in 1940, Butler Place was one of 52 public housing projects constructed nationwide by the Public Works Administration during the Great Depression. Built on a 20-acre site bounded by Interstate 30, Interstate 35 and Highway 287 in what is now Council District 8, it became Fort Worth’s largest public housing development.
The complex was named by local African American civic organizations in honor of Henry Harrison Butler, a Civil War veteran and one of the city’s first Black educators…