Bennett Partners

05/08/2026

03/13/2026

Bennett Partners has an incredible staff that works hard behind the scenes and we are fortunate to have some of the industry’s best and brightest working for us in Dallas and Fort Worth. We are excited to announce recent promotions within Bennett Partners for recognition of their extraordinary contributions to the firm and our partners.

This year we’d like to recognize the following promotions:

Chris Powers – Associate
Ashley Hale – Senior Associate
Germame Hailu – Senior Associate
Greg Hi**er – Senior Associate
Jenna Coffaro – Senior Partner

03/06/2026

Visit Fort Worth's annual meeting is one event we look forward to all year with so many of our friends and partners in one place. This one was special though, as we all got to say "Thank You, Bob" to the one and only Bob Jameson before he heads into retirement.

02/11/2026

We are excited to announce that our own Ashly Hale will be part of TREC 2026 Associate Leadership Council (ALC) class. For thirty years, the program has connected real estate professionals from different fields to focus on leadership training and professional growth while growing with a cohort of like-minded professionals. We look forward to seeing Ashley grow and the great skills are honed during the next 10 months.

02/02/2026

We were happy to be a part of Historic Fort Worth’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Membership by leading a tour of the Armour Building. The building recently won a HFW’s Preservation Award for Adaptive Reuse. Samantha Garbarino, RBIA ARB Intl. Associate AIA and Sarah McLaughlin RID, IIDA led the tour and described the design process of transforming the building originally used for blood-processing to meet the wartime demand for medical supplies into a modern office building. Occupied today by the new owners U.S. Energy Development Corp., the building has sensitively been converted into office space leaving much of the building’s existing features in place. Today, the building stands as a tangible link to Fort Worth’s Stockyards history, its wartime role, and the city’s broader industrial heritage.

01/22/2026

With the new year, comes exciting new projects. We have been busy working with the City of Fort Worth HCLC, TPW, Development Services and DFWI staff to obtain approvals for breathing new life into the Oil & Gas building. Its original street level facades will be restored and move our client into the next phase. Leading a team of great consultants, we are excited to see this building’s next life.

Consultants:

Design Consultants:
One Group Design
Accolade Design Studio LLC
line design

Civil - Jacob & Hefner Associates

MEP - Blum Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Structural - RLG Engineers

Elevator - Richard E. Baxter

Photo courtesy of Houston Public Library Digital Archives

12/17/2025

Happy Holidays to all of our partners. From our clients, consultants, officials and craftsman, our work depends on all of us coming together with a common goal that architecture has the power to make a difference. We look forward to building a future together in 2026.

12/01/2025

Center for Transforming Lives has been recognized with both the Community Impact Award and the highest honor — the Honor Award — at the 2025 AIA Fort Worth Excellence in Architecture Design Awards.

The Center for Transforming Lives (CTL) is a non-profit dedicated to interrupting the cycle of poverty by providing centralized, trauma-informed multi-generational services to women and their children. The program includes spaces for a child development center, an economic mobility center, a drop in day care, counseling, financial aid and housing offices.

After a yearslong search, CTL purchased a windowless vacant department store building in southeast Fort Worth, located near many of CTL’s clients and public transportation. Employing the principles and palette of trauma-informed design throughout, two bays of the building were removed to create a light-filled enclosed courtyard. A north facing curtain wall pulls natural light into the Child Development Center (CDC) and Economic Mobility Center. Additional window openings were cut into the foot-thick concrete exterior walls.

Classrooms in the CDC were designed as small houses on ‘streets’ to mitigate the scale for the younger children. The houses pe*****te the curtain wall and express themselves in the main courtyard.

The site featured a single oak tree, located just east of the building, which had survived decades of neglect as the site sat vacant. This ‘Survivor Tree’ became the centerpiece of the CDC playground and a metaphor for CTL’s clients who are themselves tenacious survivors. An interior play area in the CDC features an abstraction of the Survivor Tree as its centerpiece.

The new building has allowed CTL to expand their highly successful wrap around services to more participants, revitalizing a neighborhood and transforming lives.

Thank you to the Center for Transforming Lives for your partnership and unwavering commitment to our community along with all our partners, Studio Outside, Evolving Texas, LA Fuess, and Solare that helped bring this project to reality.

Interior photos by Menary Studio
Exterior photos by Brandon Burns, AIA

11/29/2025

We would like to celebrate Keith House earning a Merit Award at the 2025 AIA Fort Worth Excellence in Architecture Design Awards with our partners.

Internationally acclaimed artist James Turrell was commissioned by a local foundation for the design of a public art piece as the family’s gift to the Fort Worth community. Turrell’s meditative use of light to transcend and unify was a key factor in the selection. Turrell’s response was “Come to Good,” a Skyspace housed within Keith House, a non-denominational meeting house.

Bennett Partners were retained in 2016 to assist with site selection and feasibility and to provide input on restrictions to adjacent development to limit light pollution and protect the Skyspace aperture’s view shed.

The selected site is near a mixed-use development allowing for shared parking and utilities and is adjacent to an active trailhead along the banks of the Trinity River, encouraging pedestrian and bicycle access.

The architecture and material selections were inspired by the family’s long history in Texas. Native Texas limestone from the ruins of one of the family’s former ranch houses was reclaimed for the exterior walls. Porches on all four sides welcome visitors while also recalling the family’s original ranch house. The color palette grows out of the site; grey/brown columns are inspired by the surrounding tree trunk colors while the red/orange trim is inspired by color of the fencing and gates in the surrounding ranch. An operable roof opens at sunrise and sunset for Turrell’s light sequence.

The design team collaborated closely with Turrell and his team throughout the process on details such as the operable roof, lighting cove, dome configuration and the aperture’s critical knife edge, all of which are unique to this piece. Custom benches and doors were designed in collaboration with a local craftsman who has long done work for the family.

More than a building, Keith House is a quiet meeting place. It invites people to slow down, to look up, and to experience light as a shared moment of stillness. We are grateful to our partners and client for their vision, stewardship, and trust.