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* The applicant proposes to increase the floor area by 106,052 square feet, and increase the number of rooms from 128 to 264. In addition, due to the increase in the hotel’s footprint, the maximum floor area for the meeting space will increase from 3,000 square feet to 7,000 square feet and the maximum combined floor area for nonresidential uses in conjunction with a hotel or motel use increase from 7,000 square feet to 9,475 square feet, excluding the meeting rooms.

* PDS No. 111 permitted the development of a two-story above-ground parking structure that had to comply with several design standards. As a result of the increased in land area, the applicant will provide all off-street parking underground; therefore removing the conditions that reference the design standards for the parking structure.

* The loading and unloading area will be located in the rear of the proposed development, which is adjacent to an existing alley. The loading and unloading area will not be visible from the adjacent residential uses.

maconahey wrote:From the City Plan Commission agenda for 1/19/17:

* The applicant proposes to increase the floor area by 106,052 square feet, and increase the number of rooms from 128 to 264. In addition, due to the increase in the hotel’s footprint, the maximum floor area for the meeting space will increase from 3,000 square feet to 7,000 square feet and the maximum combined floor area for nonresidential uses in conjunction with a hotel or motel use increase from 7,000 square feet to 9,475 square feet, excluding the meeting rooms.

* PDS No. 111 permitted the development of a two-story above-ground parking structure that had to comply with several design standards. As a result of the increased in land area, the applicant will provide all off-street parking underground; therefore removing the conditions that reference the design standards for the parking structure.

* The loading and unloading area will be located in the rear of the proposed development, which is adjacent to an existing alley. The loading and unloading area will not be visible from the adjacent residential uses.

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willyk wrote:Do they have the Sugar building too?

ContriveDallasite wrote:Am I the only one who hopes the Sugar Building stays? It's a nice building and it forces the developers to be creative with the plot of land. Wall-to-wall sites are rare in Dallas and I hope they can make it work.

In the fall of 2013, Boutique Hotel News broke the story of New York-based Dream Hotel Group’s plan for a $50 million, 16-story hotel in Uptown.

The development company, then known as Hampshire Hotels Management, purchased a vacant lot at 3207 McKinney Avenue for the project. Amenities were to include a 6,000-square-foot ground floor restaurant, a seventh-floor pool deck and a lounge. Construction was predicted to begin by January of 2014, but that proved to be overly optimistic — news reports followed its progress through the spring of 2015, but still saw no construction start.

The Dallas Morning News reported in March 2015 that construction was “expected to begin next month on a 128-room Dream Hotel.” Initially, 5G Studio Collaborative LLC was the architect.

Between late 2013 and March 2015, the development team had to run through a gauntlet of local groups, including the City Plan Commission and the Oak Lawn Committee. To reduce noise and traffic, plans were changed to put three levels of a five-story parking garage underground, instead of the original one level underground, and the queue for valet parking was moved off-street to an interior courtyard. The height also dropped to 15 stories.

A spokesman for the developer said this raised the project cost to just over $60 million. With the revisions, everything appeared to be in order and the project was finally a go — but more than two years later, the vacant lot is still getting its grass mowed.

According to the Dream Hotel Group website, the Dream Dallas is still “coming soon” to Uptown, so TOWERS Dallas asked DHG’s vice president of communications, Katie Fontana, about its status.

“Dream Dallas is still very much happening. The design has changed dramatically since 2015, but we aren’t ready to share new renderings/details publicly at this time. The hotel is slated to open in 2019.”

— Katie Fontana, Dream Hotel Group

OLC President Brenda Marks managed to fill in some details about the revision. The original project was to be built on the lot between the office building at 3219 McKinney owned by the law firm Waters Kraus & Paul and the film production building at the corner of McKinney and Bowen Street, she said. Months later, the development group put the Waters Kraus & Paul property under contract.

“They then came back to OLC with a different design that incorporates both locations. We went through several months of conversations between the developer and the adjoining townhouse neighbors on Cole [Avenue],” Marks said.

The latest plan was supported by the OLC in late 2016, she added. The deed transfer wasn’t recorded until May 26, 2017, according to county appraisal district records. According to a state filing by the new architect, HKS Architects Inc., the revised project will have 250 guest rooms, various restaurants, meeting room facilities, and a rooftop swimming pool overlooking a three-level parking garage.

HKS revised the project cost estimate to $75 million and stated that construction was estimated to begin November 2017. Coincidentally, Dream Hotel Group was announcing their project around the same time that Trammell Crow Company’s High Street Residential and project partner Principal Real Estate Investors were announcing plans for the 20-story M-Line Tower, which was to be built directly across the street from the hotel.

MrsKravitz wrote:According to construction company, demo on law firm may begin end of November and hotel construction early 2018. However they also mentioned that deal is not 100% go yet.

Redblock wrote:No, they could not reach a deal for the Sugar building. It will remain.

The building to be demolished is the red building north of the vacant area.

Jasimm wrote:Dallas Dream Hotel- Opening 2020 according to an article celebrating the new Palm Springs Dream Hotel groundbreaking.

Cbdallas wrote:The Sugar building has not sold yet as they are waiting for me to win the lottery and make it my new home.