The city of Fort Worth’s Development Services department is seeking to designate the abandoned Fort Worth Power and Light Company Plant/TXU plant on North Main Street as a highly significant endangered landmark after the property was recently listed for sale.
The plant, which sits alongside the Trinity River north of downtown, opened in 1913 and was the main source of power generation in Fort Worth until the 1950s. Built in the classical-influenced Beaux-Arts style, the power plant permanently closed in 2004. Tarrant County College purchased the property the same year, along with surrounding land, to build a downtown campus that never came to fruition.
Instead, in 2009 the college turned the former RadioShack corporate headquarters off West Belknap Street into its downtown TCC Trinity River campus…