Critcs Fail to Sink a College’s Sunken Plaza

A plan for a sunken plaza at a new campus for Tarrant County College did not sit well with business leaders in Fort Worth — and they let the college know. But the college is going ahead with the plaza anyway.

According to the Star-Telegram, business leaders and consultants argued that sunken plazas were not attractive spaces. But a redesign of the plaza would have cost the college millions and set back the project by a year or more, so trustees decided to proceed with the original plan.

“The college administration was never receptive to the workshop process and resisted hearing any of the advice it generated,” Ed Bass, a developer who opposed the plaza, said in the article. “In the end, they had no more concern for their downtown neighbors than they have for the taxpayers.”