Comments on: S Fort Worth to get new bike racks, the kind cyclists love

By: Kevin Buchanan

Kevin Buchanan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:20:12 +0000

Will do! We’re talking to two contractors now, both of whom are Near Southside local, who are interested in doing the project. It won’t be much longer now.

I should also mention another part of this that’s outside of our official project. There’s a park in the Near Southside, Magnolia Green, that’s privately owned (developer of a mixed-use project that surrounds it owns it). It plays host to a monthly free concert series and other goings-on. We’re working with them to install around 10 racks (still working those numbers as well) for the park. Since it’s privately owned, we’re not using TIF dollars, but it’s sort of peripherally related to the project.

We also got about five racks put into a new (public) park elsewhere in the district.

By: howard

howard — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:22:26 +0000

Hot damn, thanks very much for this detail. $24K buys a LOT of bike racks. Keep up the good work, and I can’t wait to see the new racks in person.

With all the new condo development in central Denton, there has to be a way to capture some of the tax income.

By: Kevin Buchanan

Kevin Buchanan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:12:21 +0000

What’s great about our project is that, since quality bike racks are really almost absurdly cheap compared to nearly anything else you can do with TIF money, we’re going to be able to do a ton of them (still not ready for final numbers, but I can say it’s dozens and dozens of them) for a tidy sum. We got, I want to say, $24,000 from the TIF for this project. That’s pocket change in terms of the TIF, but it’s going to make a massive difference for cyclists in the Near Southside.