December 9, 2025
For John Wood, it’s hard to imagine a more ideal location to plant crops and build urban greenhouses than at an expansive former fairway tucked away in the Woodhaven neighborhood.
Wood wants to increase food accessibility among Fort Worth youth through agriculture and environmental stewardship by using the green space at the 150 acres of the now defunct Woodhaven Country Club and golf course.
His environmental nonprofit Econautics aims to use the east Fort Worth site to foster connectivity to nature among children and families.
“That’s the goal,” Wood said. “It could meaningfully increase the quality of life for youth in the neighborhood.”
Crescendo Development, the company that now owns the acreage at the Woodhaven golf course, is one step closer to its vision for agriculture, housing and retail at the site now that Econautics has signed on.
The nonprofit is the first organization to put the land to use after Crescendo received approval from city officials in October for its preliminary plan to create the mixed-use development that faced some pushback from neighbors who worried about the traffic and density it would bring.
“We want to preserve as much green space as possible while having an economically viable project,” Crescendo Development owner and founder Will Northern said. “Econautics will serve as a healthy, holistic draw that will show it is possible to have agricultural-type uses adjacent to development.”
