Anthracite, Bennett Benner Select Balfour Beatty to Build Fort Worth High-Rise

by Haisten Willis

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Anthracite Realty Partners and Bennett Benner Partners have selected Balfour Beatty Construction to provide construction services for a high-rise in downtown Fort Worth. Balfour Beatty is engaged in shaping the project’s final scope and contract, which includes the core, shell and interior finish-out of the 25-story, 323,415-square-foot Class A commercial office tower at 640 Taylor St., which will be known as 640 Taylor. The mixed-use tower will include ground-floor retail shops, a 12th-floor lobby and conference center and an eatery featuring a 3,400-square-foot dining deck overlooking Sundance Square and Burnett Park. Adjacent to the eatery will be a 3,200-square-foot roof garden. Scheduled for completion in December 2017, 640 Taylor will be the seventh tallest building in Fort Worth and the first one to exceed 200 feet since 2009. The project will include 900 new parking spaces.

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