In the early 1950s, the family founded Cassco Land Co. and began developing its land into new neighborhoods in response to regional growth. Cassco prepared its original Master Plan for development of the Edwards Ranch property in 1955, and during the next 30 years, oversaw the development of such prominent Fort Worth neighborhoods as Tanglewood, Overton Park, Overton Crest and Overton Woods.

The increase in rooftops exhausted existing infrastructure, especially area roadways. As owner of the last piece of undeveloped land in close proximity to the city, Cass Edwards II felt a civic duty to preserve a corridor for a proposed highway project intended to provide downtown access for future residents of southwest Fort Worth, southern Tarrant County and northern Johnson County. The family stopped large-scale development of the ranch in the 1980s to preserve this corridor.

Although proposed alignments for the Southwest Parkway had been on the books since the late 1950s, the city really began its push to design the tollroad in 2002. Through a combination of a land sale and land donation, the Edwards family conveyed 183 acres for the Southwest Parkway in 2005. The Southwest Parkway will be an extension of the existing State Highway 121 running southwest from downtown Fort Worth and will ultimately extend to Cleburne.

Cass O. Edwards II died on Aug. 1, 2005. The remaining 850 acres of the Edwards Ranch are his legacy. Today, the Edwards Ranch project sustains the family vision so associated with Cass II of responsible development carried forward with integrity and community-mindedness. We intend to showcase and honor the dedication and resilience of a truly great Texas family with our mixed-use development of the last three Edwards Ranch neighborhoods – Clearfork, Riverhills and Overland – and in so doing build on the success of the original subdivisions while keeping faith with the family’s civic-minded vision of urban progress.

Come explore the different areas of the Edwards Ranch development: Riverhills, Clearfork and Overland.