Fort Worth High School has been reborn as a loft apartment building. Eighty-two units carved out of classrooms and hallways. And the Alexander Hogg School next door contains 24 new lofts. The wood floors are original. The new occupants of the principal's office will get parquet instead of planks.
Some apartments still have chalkboards on the walls.
And all the chalkboards in these old classrooms still had writing on them from the kids that put them there. That was about five years ago. Scott is president of Fort Worth South, a corporation devoted to revitalizing this part of town. When he first entered the schools he needed police protection. Now crime is down and hopes are rising, along with 86 apartments in the brand new building.