Ask a Riverhills resident what Clearfork is for, and the answer has always been the same: dinner, a movie, maybe a lap of the AMC Dine-In on a Friday night. That answer is starting to go out of date. A Fortune 500 bank is about to move its downtown Fort Worth office five minutes from your front door, and the retail lineup that fills the gaps between now and then is denser and more specific than it was even a year ago. The shift isn't cosmetic. It changes when the parking lot fills up, who's walking the sidewalks at noon on a Tuesday, and what "just a quick trip to Clearfork" is going to feel like this fall.
Riverhills sits just south of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River, tucked between Bryant Irvin Road and Overton Woods in the 76109 zip code that also holds Tanglewood, Westcliff, and the TCU-adjacent neighborhoods. That geography has always put Riverhills within a short drive of the Shops at Clearfork. What's changing is what "the Shops" actually contains.
The Anchor Tenant Isn't a Store
The most consequential thing arriving at Clearfork this year isn't a boutique. It's an office building. Simon, the property owner, and Cassco Development Co. have broken ground on a three-story, 70,000-square-foot expansion called the Offices at Clearfork, with 50,000 square feet of Class A office space on the top two floors and 22,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant space below it. Wells Fargo has signed on as the anchor tenant, relocating from its downtown Fort Worth office to take the top floor and part of the second, according to CultureMap Fort Worth's coverage of the project. It's the third office building at the center, joining two that are already fully leased.
For a neighborhood that has treated Clearfork as a leisure destination for the better part of a decade, that's a real shift in the kind of traffic the corridor generates. Office buildings mean a weekday lunch rush instead of a weekend dinner rush, employees who need a coffee at 8 a.m. and a parking spot at 5 p.m., and a retail mix that starts optimizing for people who work there five days a week, not just people who visit on Saturday. Riverhills residents who've never thought twice about weekday timing at Clearfork may want to start factoring it in.
What's Actually New on the Shelves
The retail side hasn't stood still either. Suitsupply, the Netherlands-based menswear brand known for its tailored suits and European cut, is slated to open between CH Carolina Herrera and Natuzzi Italia this summer, its third Dallas-Fort Worth location after Uptown Dallas and Plano's Legacy West. Grown Brilliance, a lab-grown fine jewelry house, is set to land between TUMI and Johnny Was, becoming the brand's third DFW address after West Village in Dallas and Stonebriar in Frisco, per CultureMap's rundown of the new arrivals. Both join a fashion and beauty lineup that has grown steadily more specialized, with a standalone Jo Malone London, a Chanel Fragrance & Beauty boutique, and Fort Worth's first CH by Carolina Herrera now anchoring that stretch of the center.
| Arrival | What it is | Status this fall |
|---|---|---|
| Offices at Clearfork | Three-story office and ground-floor retail building | Wells Fargo relocating from downtown as anchor tenant; opening targeted for 2026 |
| Suitsupply | Menswear and tailoring | Slated to open between CH Carolina Herrera and Natuzzi Italia, summer 2026 |
| Grown Brilliance | Lab-grown fine jewelry | Opening soon between TUMI and Johnny Was |
None of this displaces what Riverhills residents already treat as their default: the sixteen-restaurant lineup that includes the dry-aged steaks at B&B Butchers, the wraparound patio at Doc B's, the Thai and Vietnamese plates at Malai Kitchen, and Grimaldi's for the nights nobody wants to cook. Pinstripes still handles bowling and bocce for the evenings that need a plan. What's changed is the density and specificity around all of it, which is a different thing than "more shops."
The Trail Nobody Has to Drive To
Not everything about Riverhills' relationship with Clearfork runs through a storefront. The Trailhead at Clearfork gives residents direct walking access along the Trinity River, part of a trail system that runs more than 100 miles and connects 31 neighborhoods across Fort Worth, according to Trinity Trails. Regulars on this stretch know to look for the cattle that still graze on ranch land bordering the path, a detail that has nothing to do with retail and everything to do with why people who live here don't think of Clearfork as a shopping center so much as an extension of their own backyard.
That distinction matters more this fall than it has in past years. As the office building fills in and the retail roster gets denser, the trail is the one piece of the corridor that isn't going to change shape. It's still free, still open, and still the fastest way to get from a Riverhills front porch to something that feels like the country, even with a Chanel counter and a Wells Fargo lobby a few hundred yards away.
Three Weekends Worth Marking on the Calendar
A short drive from Riverhills, the Fort Worth Botanic Garden has built its fall 2026 calendar around three distinct events. ¡Celebramos!, the garden's Hispanic heritage celebration, runs from late September into October. Día de los Muertos programming follows on November 1. The biggest of the three is the Fall Japanese Festival, set for November 7 and 8, 2026, presented in partnership with the Fort Worth Japanese Society and built around taiko drumming, traditional tea ceremonies, and craft and food vendors spread across the garden's grounds, according to the garden's official event listing.
Last year's two-day festival drew an estimated 14,000 visitors, a scale that gives a sense of what to expect if this year's turnout holds, per NBC 5's coverage of the event. One line from that coverage sums up why residents keep coming back year after year:
"It's an oasis of calm," says FWBG director of events and exhibits George Cripps.
For a neighborhood already juggling a construction-heavy office project and a fashion roster that's expanding by the month, having a reliably quiet counterweight a short drive away is worth knowing about even if you never go inside a store this fall.
What This Actually Adds Up To
None of these developments individually change what it feels like to live in Riverhills. Together, they point to something specific: the corridor that used to function as a weekend amenity is starting to run on a weekday schedule too. An office tower with a downtown bank as its anchor tenant, a retail lineup dense enough to support three new specialty brands in a single stretch, and a trail system that hasn't changed at all in the middle of it. That combination is what "living near Clearfork" is going to mean for Riverhills going forward, and it's worth knowing before the Wells Fargo lease starts and the lunch-hour parking gets tighter.
If you're weighing what any of this means for your own property, or you're helping someone think through a move into a neighborhood positioned this close to Fort Worth's fastest-changing commercial corridor, the team at Duwe-Olsen Group knows Riverhills block by block. Reach out for a private consultation with our Fort Worth luxury specialists.
