Fort Worth Botanic Garden launches master planning effort – Welcome to the City of Fort Worth
Published on October 26, 2021
Fort Worth Botanical Gardens | The Botanical Research Institute of Texas established a multi-stakeholder master planning committee and selected Dallas-based landscape architecture firm Studio Outside to design a comprehensive master plan that outlines the direction and priorities for the next 20 years of infrastructure and facility improvements on the The campus defines 120 hectares of land.
“Creating a long-term, inspiring guest experience is the primary purpose of this long-term master plan,” said Bob Byers, Executive Vice President of FWBG | BRIT and co-chair of the Master Planning Committee. “This plan will bring horticulture, botanical science and the Fort Worth community to our strategic vision to be known worldwide and valued locally.”
The master planning committee, led by former District 7 city council member Dennis Shingleton, includes members from across the community, representatives from Fort Worth officials, local gardening associations, Fort Worth ISD, FWBG | BRIT board of directors and staff, and other community representatives and developers.
“We made a conscious effort to have members of the city, FWBG | BRIT staff, former task forces and other long-time Garden supporters on this committee,” said Shingleton. “We will also reach out to Fort Worth residents for their input during this process so that it truly reflects the opinions of our broad, diverse community.”
After a national search, Studio Outside’s landscape architects were selected to deliver the final master plan within 12 months. Studio Outside and its team of architects, civil engineers and landscape architects offer collective expertise in master planning and botanical garden design, both in previous projects in the Garden and in similar projects across the country, such as the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, Kentucky, and the Water Conservation Garden in Red Butte, Salt Lake City.
“The master plan, which will be developed over the next 12 months, promises to strengthen the Garden Campus as the leading horticultural institution in the country,” said Tary Arterburn, principal in charge of Studio Outside. “This location is very unique, not far from the banks of the Trinity River and offers a perfect transect of ecosystems that are bank, escarpment and prairie all in one place.”
Estrus Tucker, President and CEO of DEI Consultants LLC, who will be involved in the public engagement effort for the Master Plan, said, “If we dare to shape our strategies and engagements with diversity, equity and inclusion as our intentions, expresses our natural environment. “in our gardens becomes an inspiring model for sustainable human communities.”
A website was created for the master planning.
Photo: Fort Worth Botanic Garden is the oldest public botanical garden in Texas with beautiful themed gardens including the Fuller Garden, Rose Garden, Japanese Garden, and Victor and Cleyone Tinsley Garden, which is home to plants from north-central Texas.
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