Picture December 1927, when architect Wyatt C. Hedrick began planning the Electric Building, an 18-story Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance styled building in downtown Fort Worth. Its form is the product of a plan that began in December 1927, drawn by architect Wyatt C. Hedrick. The tower once housed the Texas Electric Service Company and the Hollywood Theater; a six-story annex was added on an adjoining lot in 1929.
In the decades that followed the building changed hands and uses: Interfirst Bank purchased it in 1974, closed the Hollywood Theater in 1976 and remodeled that space as a banking facility. Robert Bass bought the property in 1984 and in 1994 converted it into the apartments you see now, with retail on the ground floor. It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
Later owners include Atlas Properties, which bought it in 2009, and Tradewind Properties of Houston, which purchased it from Atlas in 2016. Stand here and imagine the passage from electric company and movie palace to bank and then to city apartments, a building that has threaded multiple lives through the heart of downtown. Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance styling climbs all 18 stories above the street-level retail, and the six-story annex of 1929 sits alongside.