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Revamped plan gets go-ahead for downtown Fort Worth apartment project

January 3,2026

See full Fort Worth Report article by Scott Nishimura here.

A multifamily project that was tied up for more than a year in the downtown Fort Worth design process got the go-ahead to proceed with a dramatically revamped plan.

Fort Worth’s Downtown Design Review Board voted 5-0 on Dec. 4 to approve the plan for four residential units in two buildings at 1009 Mayfield St. off Samuels Avenue.

The same body denied the developer’s petition in August 2024, citing various concerns with the design.

“We are very supportive of this project,” Melissa Konur, planning director for Downtown Fort Worth, Inc., the downtown economic development organization, told the review board. “I think they’ve landed on a solution that is much more sensitive to the street and the neighborhoods and the site. Massing and scale is an improvement and more in keeping with the neighbors.”

The review board thanked developer Yedu Kumar of Mayfield Townhomes LLC for his persistence.

“Based on the feedback that we’ve received … we’ ve come to this design,” Kumar, who lives in Plano, told the board.

The board approved Kumar’s request for a certificate of appropriateness for the construction of a four-unit project; and a waiver from the city’s streetscape standards to install a five-foot-wide pedestrian way instead of the required seven feet.

Kumar originally proposed a three-story, seven-unit single-building. 

The design board had numerous objections, including blank walls on the ground floor; excessive height (the three stories exceeded an adjacent single-family home by more than one story without transitional architectural elements); an overhanging area above the driveway; high density for the narrow lot; and units primarily facing the interior of the property.

Kumar redesigned the property with two duplexes — one facing the streetfront, and the second at the back of the property facing the street — and four units, not seven.

Kumar changed the roof to address the height and look more consistent with the other older single-family homes in the neighborhood. He also added a porch to address the blank walls facing the street.

Scott Nishimura is a senior editor at the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at scott.nishimura@fortworthreport.org.

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