Fort Worth's Council Votes Tonight on Wedgwood East: $4.3 Million Over Three Years for Streets, Lights and Parks in a 1,300-Home Neighborhood
Wedgwood East, in southwest Fort Worth, is the city's pick for the 2027 Neighborhood Improvement Program — picked at an October work session after scoring 85 of 100 on the city's distress matrix. Tonight's vote would make it official, with the money phased $1 million, $2.3 million, then $1 million.
FORT WORTH — A southwest Fort Worth neighborhood of nearly 1,300 homes is one council vote away from a three-year, $4.3 million city investment. Wedgwood East has been selected as the 2027 neighborhood for Fort Worth's Neighborhood Improvement Program, and the City Council is scheduled to vote on the selection at its meeting tonight, November 10, according to the program accounts read by this desk. The city announced the selection at an October 27 council work session, the Fort Worth Report reported.
The neighborhood the city picked is an established one: developed primarily between the late 1950s and the 1980s, bounded by Interstate 20 to the north, Woodway Drive to the west, Altamesa Boulevard to the south, and Westcreek Drive and McCart Avenue to the east, and split between council districts 6 and 9, according to the city's program page and the meeting summaries. The city's own figures put its median household income at $65,625 with a poverty rate of 18 percent, and OpenTexas's summary of the city's process records a score of 85 out of 100 on the city's neighborhood distress matrix. The money is phased rather than front-loaded: $1 million in the first year for feedback meetings, $2.3 million for implementation in the second year, and $1 million to finish in the third, according to the program timeline.
What the money buys is decided with the neighborhood. Potential projects include street repairs, additional street lighting and park enhancements, the city says, with final priorities set by community feedback as the Neighborhood Services Department gathers input at community events. Wedgwood East would be the program's 12th neighborhood since it launched in 2017 — following Como, Seminary, Historic Marine and Fairhaven, with New Mitchell selected last year. Tonight's vote is the formal step: approval starts the 2027 program year, and this desk will report the outcome when the council acts.
