by Adolfo Pesquera

Fort Worth (Tarrant Co.) – Houston-based InTown Homes got its second townhome project in Fort Worth through the City Planning Commission review.

InTown Homes has been an active developer specializing in urban luxury infill projects in Houston, Dallas and Austin. But until recently, it wasn’t doing anything in Fort Worth.

The company’s first Fort Worth project was Museum Square at North Henderson & Peach, located on the western edge of downtown. This is an 11-lot development on parts of three blocks that is just coming to completion. All units are two-story, three-bedroom with rooftop terraces that start in the $590,000s.

At the Nov. 18 Plan Commission meeting, InTown Homes presented a second townhome project, this one is in the Linwood neighborhood west of the Clearfork Trinity River.

Brandon Middleton of Kimley-Horn, acting as their representative, told the commissioner the project had been revised after further discussions with the neighborhood association; their original design was denied by the Plan Commission in September.

InTown Homes proposes 10 attached residences to be split in two buildings, each being three-stories in height. The decision before the commissioners was to allow a private driveway that could function as a dead-end alley providing access to rear entry garages for lots less than 50 feet in width.

A unique feature of the project is that there is additional living space above the detached garages, which Middleton referred to as “mother-in-law suites.”

This project doesn’t quite fit the mold of a typical InTown Homes development in that it is completely surrounded by detached single family homes and is at a slight distance from downtown, about a mile. However, a large luxury multifamily complex, Elan West 7th, is one block south and was just constructed in 2014.

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adolfo@virtualbx.com