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Heritage Plaza Makes Preservation Texas‚Äö?Ñ????ë?????´?????¬¥?¬¨¬®‚Äö?Ñ¬¢ Most Endangered Historic Places 2009 List02-19-09 | News

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Fort Worth, Texas is, of course, named after its 1849 fort, no vestige of which remains. This northern Texas town grew in prosperity as a stop along the Chisholm Trail, the route for herding cattle north to market.

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Today, Fort Worth is prospering from the natural gas reserves under the city and the new horizontal drilling technology.

Not all aspects of the city are booming. Heritage Plaza, part of the 112-acre Heritage Park, sits atop the bluffs overlooking the Trinity River. Fort Worth Parks & Rec. closed the plaza and park in April 2007 for lack of maintenance. The plaza, designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, debuted in 1976, part of the nation?EUR??,,????'?????<

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The local media adds that the plaza pumps and electrical equipment had worn out and there was no lighting.

The local media also reports that in 2007 the nonprofit group Streams and Valleys hired the Carter & Burgess firm to assess Heritage Plaza. The firm reported residents felt the park was an ?EUR??,,????'?????<