Awards

Downtown Fort Worth is filled with trailblazing projects and ideas and you can help us celebrate them.

Each year, the Downtown Fort Worth Trailblazer Awards celebrate outstanding leadership, achievement, and contributions to Downtown.  In bestowing these awards, we hope to:

• Honor the most successful and innovative efforts in city center development
• Salute the human qualities that contribute to Fort Worth
• Acknowledge contributions that have made Downtown more inviting, vibrant, and beautiful

The 5th Annual Downtown Fort Worth Trailblazer Awards was held on September 16, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel.

Take a look at the 2011 Downtown Trailblazer Award Winners

Urban Design - XTO Energy, Inc.

Sustainable Development - Tarrant County College District

Promotion and Marketing - Sundance Square, Super Week

Preservation and Adaptive Reuse - Sid Richardson Museum

Placemaking - Chesapeake Energy, Holiday Lights

Green Space - Hyde Park Transit Plaza

Chairman's Award - Fort Worth Promotion and Development Fund

Ambassador Award - Jim Wright

Blazed any trails lately?

Any downtown project is eligible for The Trailblazer Awards, regardless of the year completed.  Nominations can be submitted by the entrant or by a third party. Projects must be at least 90 to 95 percent complete to be eligible for consideration. For multi-phase projects, completion of a major phase of the project will make it eligible. Projects should be within the downtown boundaries. View the Entry Application here.

Who organizes the Awards?

Downtown Fort Worth, Inc., downtown’s leadership and advocacy organization. The Trailblazers are intended to encourage downtown growth and foster Fort Worth’s tradition of high-quality development by recognizing and publicly celebrating outstanding accomplishments in the award categories.

Who should you enter or nominate another? 

A Trailblazer Award brings greater recognition and awareness to high-quality downtown projects. They identify people, projects and developments that are vital partners in the downtown business community and establish benchmarks that future leaders and decision-makers can use as they contribute to the fabric of downtown. The winning characteristics and benchmarks will be featured on the DFWI website, our online library of downtown excellence.

How much does it cost to enter?

There is no charge to enter The Trailblazer Awards, and no limit on the number of entries.

What is the deadline?

Entry information and deadlines coming June 2012. 

How will the Awards be judged?

The jury will choose winners based on the individual merit of an entry. While project budgets will be noted, jury members will foremost seek to recognize those submissions that best exemplify the characteristics listed in the Award Categories.  The decisions of the jury are final.  The jury reserves the right to move submissions to more appropriate categories, if necessary, or to decline to make an award in any particular category.

Sponsorship Information

You can help support our Downtown by sponsoring this important event.  As DFWI's primary fundraiser, the Trailblazer Awards are a unique opportunity to showcase your company to the Fort Worth business community while supporting the work of DFWI.  For a list of sponsor benefits please contact Becky Fetty, Director of Marketing and Membership, at 817.870.1692 or beckyf@dfwi.org.