Texas Wesleyan University will try its “smaller, smarter” approach to improving Vaughn Boulevard into a gateway corridor in east Fort Worth after other efforts have stalled.
The university, which was involved in the revitalization of East Rosedale Street near the school, was selected for Main Street America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, by Fort Worth City Council members at a meeting of the Local Development Corporation board June 24. The Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will continue its operation of a similar Main Street program for the Historic Northside, the panel decided.
Council members approved spending $300,000 to continue funding the program for another two years. The resolution transferred the Poly program to Texas Wesleyan…