A Quintessential Character Town…Sulphur Springs TX

Two years of collaborative planning produced a $6.3 million renewal of the rural city’s four-acre civic square and main streets. 

Like many small cities, Sulphur Springs’ (population 15,000) downtown faced a slow decline, and development shifted to its perimeter following the 1970s construction of nearby interstate I-30 and the conversion of its main streets to one-way. Compounding these challenges, the city’s historic square, framed by the picturesque 1895 Romanesque Revival Hopkins County Courthouse, was converted into a surface parking lot.