Eco Motel in east Fort Worth's Meadowbrook neighborhood has been brought into full compliance through a city code compliance program aimed at problem properties, according to city officials and neighborhood residents. The Nuisance Enforcement Task Force program launched in January and is fully funded for 2027. The city says it has helped close properties, bring owners into compliance and reduce crime at some sites with the most code violations.
Carol Peters, president of the West Meadowbrook Neighborhood Association, called the program new and innovative and said the city's investment is making neighborhoods safer. Peters, a resident there since 1985, said Eco Motel has for about four decades been linked to drug use and sales, prostitution, vagrancy, code and health violations, and a homicide. She said the motel could stand in the way of the area's revitalization.
The city also said the Central Motel on East Lancaster Avenue became the first property targeted by the program, known as NET Force, to be demolished. Peters said the city is considering rezoning several properties between Beach Street and Ayers Avenue along East Lancaster into mixed use to encourage walkable, transit-oriented development.