What's New Near Stonegate Fort Worth at Clearfork

If you live in Stonegate, you already have Clearfork sized up. It's the outdoor shopping center a short drive up South Hulen where Neiman Marcus anchors one end, Burberry and Tiffany fill in the middle, and the patios stay full on weekend afternoons. That read has been accurate since the center opened in 2017, and for nine years it has mostly held. What's changing this year isn't another national name joining the directory. It's the first time a Fort Worth-owned restaurant has moved in, and the terms of that move say more about where Clearfork is headed than any retail announcement has.

The Nine-Year Pattern Piattello Breaks

Clearfork has always leaned on brands you'd recognize from a dozen other cities. That's been the model since Simon opened the center in 2017 with Neiman Marcus as anchor, and it's carried through nearly every tenant announcement since. Piattello Italian Kitchen doesn't fit that mold. Chef Marcus Paslay is closing out almost ten years at the restaurant's Waterside location and relocating this fall into The Offices at Clearfork, the new mixed-use building at the corner of Marathon Avenue and Ozona Boulevard. It will be the first locally owned restaurant Clearfork has added since it opened.

Paslay has been straightforward about why he's making the move now rather than years ago:

"It really boils down to co-tenancy and the energy there."

That's a comment about foot traffic and neighbors, not about square footage or rent. It's worth sitting with, because the numbers behind the move tell a more specific story than "bigger space."

What the Square Footage Actually Says

The menu isn't changing much. The handmade pastas, wood-fired pizzas, and seasonal Italian dishes that built Piattello's following stay in place, with new items expected later this summer. What's changing is the schedule. Seven-day lunch service is new for this restaurant, and that detail matters more than the square footage. A restaurant doesn't add lunch service to catch weekend shoppers who were already coming on weekends. It adds lunch service because there's a weekday crowd showing up that wasn't there before.

The Retail Arrivals Nobody's Grouped Together

Piattello isn't opening into a vacuum. A cluster of retail moves has landed at Clearfork over the past several months, and looked at together they point in a specific direction:

• Grown Brilliance, a lab-grown diamond jewelry house founded by Akshie Shah, opened its third Dallas-Fort Worth location at Clearfork, joining existing stores at West Village in Dallas and Stonebriar in Frisco.
• Suitsupply has a location slated between CH Carolina Herrera and Natuzzi Italia, with a summer 2026 opening that makes Clearfork its third DFW address after Uptown Dallas and Plano's Legacy West.
• Design Within Reach is already open, bringing modern furniture pieces to a center that hasn't had a dedicated home furnishings presence beyond Arhaus and Ballard Designs.
• Rye 51, the Dallas-born menswear brand, filed plans for a build-out at 5163 Monahans Avenue, Suite C220, targeting a September 2026 completion for what appears to be a refresh or relocation of its current Clearfork footprint.

None of these are the kind of splashy flagship anchor that defined Clearfork's early years. They're smaller-format, accessible-luxury tenants filling gaps between the big names. That's a different growth pattern than the one Stonegate residents watched play out when Neiman Marcus, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton first arrived. This is a center densifying, not expanding outward.

The Building Behind the Move

The reason Piattello can add lunch service and the reason smaller retail tenants keep signing on both trace back to the same structure: The Offices at Clearfork, a three-story, 70,000-square-foot building with 50,000 square feet of Class A office space above 22,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant space. The building itself was completed earlier this year, in the second quarter of 2026, and Piattello signed on as the anchor restaurant tenant on that ground floor.

That's a meaningful shift for a center that started as a retail and dining destination people drove to on weekends. Clearfork's own long-range plan calls for two million square feet of office space, 1.2 million square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment, and 2,500 residential units, with additional multifamily housing, senior living space, and a hotel still to come. The Offices at Clearfork is the first real installment of that office component actually opening its doors. What that means in practice is a resident population of office workers arriving at Clearfork on weekdays, not just shoppers arriving on Saturdays. Piattello's seven-day lunch service is the first tenant decision built directly around that shift.

What Changes at the Trailhead

Stonegate residents who use Clearfork already have a Saturday routine that doesn't depend on any of this: the Trailhead at Clearfork, where Trinity Trails access sits next to a farmers market that runs every Saturday. That part of the property isn't changing. What's likely to change is when else it gets used.

Trinity Trails as a whole covers roughly 40 miles of running and biking paths across 17 trailheads, with boat launches, equestrian paths, and fishing spots spread along the river. The Clearfork trailhead is one entry point into that system, and it's been a weekend fixture for as long as the center has existed. With a new weekday office population landing next door this year, the same stretch of trail that's mostly quiet Monday through Friday and full on Saturday morning has the ingredients to pick up a second rhythm: lunchtime walkers and joggers using the trail the way weekend visitors already do, just on a different clock.

The Bigger Read

The easy story about Clearfork is that a shopping center keeps adding stores. That's true, but it undersells what's actually happening. A center that spent nine years building its identity around recognizable national brands just signed its first local, chef-owned restaurant, and the terms of that deal, more space, more seats, and lunch service that didn't exist before, only make sense if the surrounding weekday population is growing. The office building that just opened confirms it. The eventual plan for thousands of residential units and a hotel confirms where this is heading.

For anyone in Stonegate who treats Clearfork as an extension of the neighborhood already, that shift is worth watching for reasons that have nothing to do with real estate. It means new lunch options this fall, a trail that may start feeling busier on weekdays, and a shopping center whose next phase looks less like a mall and more like a second downtown a few minutes from home. For more on what makes this stretch of Fort Worth distinct day to day, the earlier piece on living in Stonegate as a Trinity-adjacent neighborhood covers the ground this post builds on.

If you're weighing what any of this means for your own plans in Stonegate, whether that's understanding how the neighborhood is evolving or figuring out what your home is worth in the middle of it, Shauna Bright is always glad to talk it through. Schedule a private consultation whenever you're ready.