-Ed Gray, Former City Planner, Grand Prairie, TX, and “The Commish” Radio Talk-Show Host
Transform 1012 N. Main Street is working to acquire the former Ku Klux Klan Auditorium in Fort Worth, TX, and transform it into The Fred Rouse Center and Museum for Arts and Community Healing, named after a local Black man who was lynched in 1921.
Transform 1012 N. Main Street Leadership Coalition and founding Board members (Not pictured: Sharon Hererra and Román Ramírez)
One of the most exciting new developments is that Transform 1012 N. Main Street was included in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies draft funding bill for 2022!Congressman Marc Veasey from Texas’s 33rd District submitted our project to the House Appropriations Committee for potential funding. The request is in the draft federal budget. If the budget passes as is, Transform 1012 will receive $3 million of federal funding to cover the cost of purchasing the building and a portion of the stabilization costs. Read more about the bill here.
Urban Land Initiative
Transform 1012 N. Main Street has also been gaining attention around the DFW Metroplex. The Urban Land Institute of Dallas-Fort Worth recently named Transform 1012 as one of three finalists for its Next Big Idea Award, which "supports innovative ideas that can positively impact the region’s quality of life, such as improving the quality of the built environment, the way in which planning and development are conducted, construction affordability, financing or other aspects of development." The winner will be selected during their annual Impact Awards event in Dallas on October 20.
Support Transform 1012 N. Main Street
On Thursday, September 23, Transform 1012 N. Main Street will participate in the Communities Foundation of Texas’sNorth Texas Giving Day, a one-day online giving extravaganza for our whole region. Since its founding in 2009, NTX Giving Day has empowered North Texans to get up and give back to communities and causes they care most about.
We invite you to join the movement and help us transform a monument of hate into one of freedom and liberation. Here’s how you can support Transform 1012 N. Main Street:
Give early: Not available on September 23? No big deal! Make your gift now through September 22.
Be a Matching Funds Donor: Dollar-for-dollar matching funds inspire people to give more. Would you be interested in providing a matching fund that we could promote and leverage on NTX Giving Day? Please reach out to:Andi@Transform1012.org
