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Fossil Creek

Project Highlights

1974 - Motorola buys 96.9 acres of Hunt-owned land, which starts the business-park planning and site sales effort.

1983 - Acreage outside the primary boundaries is sold to reduce the holdings to 1,150 acres.

1987 - Woodbine develops the award-winning The Golf Club at Fossil Creek, designed by Arnold Palmer, as part of Fossil Creek North.

1996 - United Artists Theatres movie complex opens, drawing retail and restaurant development. Over the next four years, four major chains open restaurants at Fossil Creek.

1999 - Pulte Homes buys 22.2 acres for 117 homes.

2003 - Countrywide, now known as Bank of America, acquires the Motorola site.

Location / Accessibility

Fossil Creek is bounded on the west by Interstate 35W and on the south by North Loop 820.

  • 20 minutes from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
  • Halfway between job centers in downtown Fort Worth and at Alliance Airport.

Land Uses

Fossil Creek Business Park
Original plan:

Office/Industrial 348.9 acres
Commercial 11.3 acres
Right of way/Other 64.8 acres
Acres remaining:
Office/Industrial: 82.0 acres

Fossil Creek North
Original plan:

Recreational (golf/greenbelt): 218.5 acres
Single-family/Multifamily residential: 263.8 acres
Office: 86.8 acres
Retail/Commercial: 89.0 acres
Right of Way/Other: 76.5 acres
Acres remaining:

Office: 74.6 acres
Retail/Commercial: 9.0 acres

Total original plan: 1,150.0 acres
Total acres remaining:
165.6 acres

Project Team

Civil Engineer: Halff Associates, Inc., Dallas

Developer/Asset Manager: Woodbine Development Corporation, Dallas

Golf Course Architect: Palmer Course Design Company, Ponte Verde, Florida

Land Planner: Peckham-Young, Inc. (now The Sage Group, Inc.), Southlake, Texas

Landscape Architect: Howard Garrett & Associates, Dallas

Municipality / Taxing Jurisdictions

City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Keller Independent School District (or Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD), Tarrant Regional Water District, Tarrant County College District, Tarrant County Hospital District

Zoning

Fossil Creek Business Park: J Light Industrial

Fossil Creek North: G Commercial, Residential

Utilities

Water: City of Fort Worth

Sewer: City of Fort Worth

Electricity: TXU Energy

Natural Gas: TXU Gas Company

Telephone: AT&T

Project Ownership / Sponsorship

Hunt-Woodbine Realty Corporation, The Ruth Foundation, The Nancy and Ray L. Hunt Foundation