Urban Stillhouse owner Meredith Koko wants Fort Worth to know she does not intend to tear down the 110-year-old former cold-storage warehouse that once housed the Los Vaqueros Stockyards restaurant.
“The message that I’m really trying to get across, that I think is getting missed, is the fact that we are not coming in there to do anything other than be a part of the Stockyards,” she said. “I don’t think there’s a better brand to be here, frankly, with the American story we have, and the love we have for Texas and just the Americana of it. That said, I cannot say and I don’t know, because I’m not an engineer, what we are going to be able to save or salvage.”
Koko was speaking after news that the new owners of the property had filed a demolition permit for the former D. Hart and Sons Livestock Co. building at 2629 N. Main St. Koko emphasized that the demolition permit came about because the structure was not “structurally sound.” They don’t plan to demolish the building, but there are no halfway measures to apply for with the city…