Camp Bowie Stripling & Cox Set For New Shopping Center

Shoppers along Camp Bowie Boulevard will have new choices in 2009 as the closed Stripling & Cox store will be torn down to make way for a new shopping center. According to Globe Street, Armstrong Development Properties Inc. has purchased the site and intends to tear down the old building and construct a 23,100-sf strip center of high-end retail called The Shops at Camp Bowie.

Plans call for a bank, a restaurant and upscale specialty shops. The plan is to have the project ready to open in late summer or early fall 2009. Southwest Fort Worth is an attractive place for retail with a vacancy rate 0.5% lower than the citywide average and rents on Class A space $1.50 a square foot higher than the city as a whole.