Ft Worth - Sundance Square

Well, I took the train over to Ft Worth yesterday just to have a look around downtown. Thought I would spend some time in a place called the Flying Saucer which claimed to have close to 100 beers on tap from around the world. I got tired of counting around seventy something on the taps behind the bar. Sundance Square is a section of downtown Ft Worth that has been spruced up by some of the rich benefactors that wanted to see some city life spring up. So far, its seems to have worked. There were lots of people out on the street walking around in all age groups. Teenagers, Older Couples, Families, all out for a night on the town. It impressed me to see so many people out and about in Ft Worth. I had not ever seen a crowd like that in an Urban setting in a long time back where I grew up and have seen nothing like that in downtown Dallas. There were police patrolling the street on foot, which I still don't think I have seen a beat cop in Dallas since I have been here. Lots of restaurants both chain and non chain, fancy and not so fancy. You still got the feeling that most of the people did not live in this area and had come to make it a night on the town but still it was refreshing to see that the developers had invested in revitalizing a downtown instead of some ugly strip mall or a big mega mall instead. I shall be back soon to sample some more of Flying Saucer's brew and to explore some of Sundance Square.