BY MARK FADDEN & CODY THORN
Jail inmates to return to Tarrant County Members of the Tarrant County Com- missioners Court voted unanimously July 16 to terminate a contract with a private company that has been housing an over ow of inmates at the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Center in Garza County—about 40 miles southeast of Lubbock—since 2022. Zooming in County Administrator Chandler Merritt said the Texas Commission on Jail Standards inspected and approved two housing towers at the Tarrant County jail in downtown Fort Worth that can now house the inmates returning from the Garza County prison. Precinct 4 Commissioner Manny Ramirez said the process of returning nearly 400 inmates to Tarrant County has been “com- plicated and di cult.”
Project proposing hotel, townhomes receives denial
A proposed mixed-use development with housing and a hotel called Grapevine Village was denied during a combined meeting with the Grapevine Planning and Zoning Commission and the Grapevine City Council on July 16. The background Managing Director Joel Behrens with Trammell Crow Company presented a plan that would feature a Sandman Signature Hotel, which would include a Chop Steakhouse and Bar restaurant and 296 multifamily units. There were three total lots, one with a hotel, one with multifamily housing and a third lot that wasn’t presented but plans would be for a second hotel, according to the presentation. The total land sits on 28.7 acres along Grapevine Mills Boulevard and Grapevine Mills Parkway, along with additional frontage on East Grapevine Mills Circle and Stars and Stripes Way. Parking concerns for the hotel were brought up
A mixed-used development in Grapevine was considered and denied during a meeting on July 16.
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since there was no garage parking. The multifam- ily portion o ered 592 spaces, but that included counting garages attached to units. “This is the last real commercial tract we have,” Mayor William D. Tate said. “What you are proposing is going to produce very, very little sales tax. The hotel, I could vote for that but I can’t see me voting for anything else.”
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