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When Rodney McIntosh saw the pistol, his instincts kicked in. He grabbed the armed man’s hand, shoved it down, and pushed him back into his car. It wasn’t McIntosh’s first time in a conflict on the verge of becoming a shooting. It’s his job. “You can’t do this in broad daylight,” McIntosh recalled telling the young man. If he’d pulled the trigger that day, prison wouldn’t be the only concern. “Someone is going to come shoot you, too,” McIntosh told him.
A community activist, pastor, and mentor, McIntosh, 44, leads a small team battling violence in east and south Fort Worth, using his experiences as a former gang member to mentor young men and mediate conflicts before they devolve into gun violence. The fledgling organization, called VIP Fort Worth, is one of a number of programs that could benefit from a new bill that would help grow and support community-based violence prevention and intervention programs in Texas.
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Cavile Place, an iconic public housing development in southeast Fort Worth, is being torn down as part of a neighborhood revitalization effort.
Fort Worth is in the middle of demolishing a landmark: the Cavile Place public housing development.
Commonly known as the Stop Six projects, countless people called these apartments home from the 1950s all the way to June of last year.
The city is tearing down the projects to make way for new housing as part of an effort to revitalize Stop Six.
Cavile Place means a lot to many of the people that used to live there so much so that the city s housing authority will preserve some of the old red bricks to give out as keepsakes, according to a spokesperson.
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Cavile Place, commonly known as the Stop Six projects, is being torn down in an effort to redevelop and revitalize Fort Worth s Stop Six neighborhood.
Cavile Place often called the Stop Six projects was a landmark in Fort Worth s Stop Six neighborhood. It s being torn down as part of a revitalization project, but some worry that new development is just a vehicle for gentrification.
Hundreds of families used to live in the red brick apartment buildings that make up Cavile Place.
The public housing development commonly known as the Stop Six projects became a neighborhood landmark over its nearly 70-year history.