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West 7th Announcements

It's over a year before completion, but the West 7th development is generating a lot of interest with its line up of tenants. One reason: they are not the normal Mall or Big Box Shopping center retailers and restaurants. I like Chili's and Barne's and Noble but Fort Worth is ready for something new. Besides, I keep hoping the shopping trends move back a little towards small and personal, and away from big and impersonal. Wishful thinking, probably. For me, entering the yellow world of Best Buy is sensory overload, driving near the mall makes my palms sweat, and walking into a Gap or Pottery Barn triggers my tired-head switch.

If nothing else, Montgomery Plaza and downtown Fort Worth are attracting more diverse retailers than our suburban cities, as in Southlake.

You have seen the West 7th list in the Star-Telegram probably, but here it is just in case.

Several of these companies are not new to DFW but I have not been to any of them. How about you? Good or bad?

A partial listing:

Fireside Pies -- pizza restaurants
Patrizio's -- Italian restaurant
Tillman's Roadhouse
Brut -- a champagne boutique
Yofe -- a yogurt shop
Paciugo Gelato
Saxby's Coffee
Fort Worth City Market -- gourmet to-go foods. You can also eat prepared foods on site.
Iron Cactus -- Mexican

Easter 2008

Eugene Burnand
Peter and John Running to the Tomb
1898
Musee d'Orsay, Paris

From the Gospel of St. John

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.

For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.