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About Us

The Las Vegas Trail Revitalization Project, known as LVTRise, is a collaboration and partnership of private companies, human service organizations and government agencies dedicated to helping residents of the Las Vegas Trail area improve their neighborhood and day-to-day lives. In response to the devastating crime, unemployment and educational challenges in the LVT area, the organization works to alter the trajectory of the lives of the residents living in the area and focuses resources for both sustained change and immediate positive impact to life.

 

LVTRise and its community advocates have determined that residents were in need of the following:

CRIME CONTROL & PREVENTION

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YOUTH PROGRAMS

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

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Our Mission

We dedicate our work to collaborating with community partners, empowering community members through training and case management, and impacting the Las Vegas Trail community by increasing school performance, increasing housing stability, and reducing the crime in the neighborhood.

Our Vision

Our vision is to permanently transform the lives of the residents living in Las Vegas Trail, by continually providing resources and services dedicated to the revitalization and sustainability of the geographical area.

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Community Center

Rise Community Center

The Community Center is a NEIGHBORHOOD HUB focused on providing a home for services that will improve our residents lives. A place to call home and create community, LVTRise welcomes all of its residents to benefit from the services the center has to provide.

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The property includes about five acres of land, two buildings totaling 12,650 feet, a parking lot and recreation amenities. Residents can use this new community center free of charge. From financial literacy and career development to counseling and educational classes, after-school programs and meal assistance, the community center seeks to be the hub that connects, empowers, and impacts the Las Vegas Trail area.

The LVTRise community center will relies on community partners and committed community volunteers and donations offered by organizations and individuals of Fort Worth, to provide their time and assistance to better back community residents. In our work to provide the basic necessities to some of Fort Worth’s most vulnerable citizens, LVTRise relies heavily on the talent and treasures of our local philanthropic community.

History of LVTRise

August 2017

March 2018

The Las Vegas Trail Revitalization Mobile Food Pantry Unit starts operating.

Neighborhood revitalization is initiated through a series of town halls with community members and key stakeholders in Las Vegas Trail. 

October 2018

April 2019

The Las Vegas Trail Revitalization Project becomes an official non-profit organization known as LVTRise, Inc.

The Las Vegas Trail Revitalization Project Mobile Food Pantry Unit contract ends. The City of Fort Worth moves forward with purchasing the Westside YMCA and LVTRise starts operating out of the RISE Community Center

August 2019

IDEA Rise Public School opens.

November 2019

Phase 1 construction of the RISE Community Center begins.

March 2020

LVTRise Food Pantry established.

October 2020

Phase 1 of the RISE Community Center opens to the public.

January 2021

June 2021

The Fort Worth Library at the RISE Community Center opens.

The City of Fort Worth approved a petition establishing a PID within the Las Vegas Trail neighborhood. 

Summer 2022

July 2021

The RISE Community Center new basketball courts opened to the public.

Phase 2 Opens with B&GC LVTRise Branch officially open!

November 2023

Spring 2024

Estimate for court completion.

Estimate for Child Care Associates
groundbreaking.

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