Fort Worth Magazine
The site of the former Cullen Davis mansion will soon become a cluster of 30 townhomes after members of the Fort Worth City Council approved a zoning change on Tuesday that will permit the development to proceed.
The city Zoning Commission recommended approval by an 8-0 vote.
The developer and co-owner of the property is Kyle Poulson. Michael Dike of Village Homes will be the builder.
“This was a tough case that was very contentious at first,” District 3 City Council member Michael Crain said. “We asked [the developers] to work with the neighborhood to figure out what’s best” for the neighborhood’s stakeholders.
It will now be a real community, Crain said.
The mansion gained infamy in August 1976 when a gunman killed two and seriously wounded two others. Davis, at the time estranged from his wife Priscilla, was charged with the murders but acquitted.
The case remains unsolved.
Over the years since then, the house has been repurposed as a restaurant and events venue. None of those concepts worked there.
Demolition of the mansion began late in December.
