Fort Worth’s Camp Bowie Boulevard is a mess. When will construction end?
These days, museumgoers walking from the Kimbell or the Modern toward Camp Bowie Boulevard will encounter sights of far less aesthetic beauty: lines of orange-striped barricades, effaced roads and jumbles of ripped up concrete.
The mess is the byproduct of a $13.1 million overhaul of the portion of Camp Bowie linking Montgomery Street to University Drive. Work crews began tearing up surface pavement and redirecting traffic in late February; Fort Worth expects the construction to last until next spring.
The revamp, approved by city hall last November, promises new sidewalks, repaved concrete, and street lighting enhancements, among other improvements.
The segment of Camp Bowie under repair funnels pedestrians and vehicles to and from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Kimbell Art Museum, and Amon Carter Museum of American Art, some of the city’s most important cultural institutions; it also services parts of the UNT Health Science Center campus and the Crescent Hotel, whose owners have partnered with the city to rework the street.
Traffic is confined to one lane in each direction on the northern side of Camp Bowie, a configuration crews expect to keep in place until next summer or fall, when they’ll reroute vehicles to the southern half of the street.
This story was originally published March 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM.
