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Fort Worth wants to hear your ideas for its new downtown library project

August 26,2025

See full Fort Worth Star-Telegram article by Tom Johanningmeier here.

The city of Fort Worth wants to hear your ideas as it begins plans to transform a downtown six-story Georgian Revival into a library. The city purchased the former Center For Transforming Lives building at 512 W. Fourth St. in August 2024.

“Renovating and designing this location to become an innovative, modern, public library will require input from our residents and organizations invested in seeing Fort Worth grow,” a post announcing the public meetings reads. “We’re eager to meet with civic organizations, listen to our residents and gather input on what we can create together.” The listening sessions are from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 4 at First United Methodist Church, 800 W. Fifth St., and from 10 a.m. to noon Sept. 13 at Broadway Baptist Church, 305 W. Broadway Ave. The building was constructed around 1928 as an Elks lodge with meeting rooms on the first two floors and hotel rooms on third through fifth floors. The YWCA purchased the building in the 1950s and changed its name to the Center for Transforming Lives in 2015.

The project will be completed in phases, with the first being the main entry, basement and first floor. The city has been without a downtown library since June 2023, when it sold the 505 W. Third St. location to a Dallas developer, which is considering a 20-story tower on the site.

Location Mentioned: First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth