Editor's note: The top Fort Worth news of the week includes a wild installation coming to the Botanical Garden and a booming Fort Worth neighborhood. Plus, an area museum gets a global accolade. Read more about our most popular stories below, then visit this guide for the best weekend events.

1. Fort Worth Botanic Garden to host 800,000-brick LEGO wildlife display. Colorful LEGO sculptures will bloom alongside flowers and trees in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden this summer. The garden will host an exhibit called "Sean Kenney's Nature POP! Made with LEGO Bricks," from May 22-September 7, featuring more than 40 animal sculptures created from more than 800,000 LEGO bricks.

2. Booming Fort Worth ZIP among 10 fastest-growing new neighborhoods in U.S. As Texas' ever-growing population generates more demand among regional housing markets, one Fort Worth ZIP code has seen more growth than nearly all other ZIPs in the state — and in the country.

3. Fort Worth's Sundance Square makes bold move to revive retail spaces. The owners of Fort Worth's Sundance Square are bringing in outside help to lease retail space in the downtown district. Commercial real estate firm JLL has been selected to oversee retail leasing for more than 105,000 square feet of restaurant, retail, arts, and entertainment space in Sundance Square.

4. Premium ice cream chain Bruster's churns first store in Fort Worth. A Pittsburgh-based ice cream chain has scooped into Fort Worth. Bruster’s Real Ice Cream, founded in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, in 1989 by an actual guy named Bruce, has opened in the buzzy north Fort Worth-Keller area.

5. Stunning Arlington museum declared most beautiful in the world. A new list of the world's most beautiful museums includes one gleaming North Texas museum on the roster for 2026, The National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington.

The National Medal of Honor Museum. Courtesy photo