Kennedale...hot or not? (Fort Worth, Arlington: apartment, neighborhoods, high school)

[Bullandram1]

What’s the scoop with Kennedale? As an outsider driving through I don’t see anything worth moving there??? Commercial buildings...country looking....homeless people. Someone enlighten me with the good stuff....

[TheProtege]

Small average middleish class city that happens to have it's main street go through a bunch of salvage yards, cheap looking industrial building and some meh looking business/residential buildings. The east side has some nice middle and upperish middle class neighborhoods while the west side is still sort of rural looking. Been a few years, but I remember the city was doing an Arlington and throwing money at the "downtown" area to make it more attractive (the stuff they built is nice). Unfortunately FW has two of it's landfills right up against the western border of the city along with quite a few gravel and sand pits all along that border. Finally it shares a very weird border with Arlington so some of the nice neighborhoods / crummy looking salvage yards are actually in Arlington.

[jbb303]

Kennedale pushed out a lot of sexually oriented businesses back in the early 00's and the areas along I-20 and Mansfield Hwy. look significantly better than they did 20 or so years ago. I always hear good things about the schools for such a small town. I lived in an apartment across the street from the high school (yet it was in Arlington) and it was a very quiet neighborhood.

[naterator]

Agreed, they've come a long way the last 15 years or so.

These days, the main drawback for me is the proximity to the Fort Worth landfill (literally across the street), but it seems they've got that under control through the installation of gas capture systems (and not dumping solid waste from the water treatment plant into the landfill).

[motherhen220]

I work in Kennedale & the stench from the landfills is aweful some days though you can't smell it SE of the post office. Small Town politics can get petty.