Design District: Cabana Hotel

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Postby Tnexster » 11 Nov 2016 11:10

The former Cabana Motor Hotel is under contract (again) but this time to a hotel developer

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/ ... tract.html

Instead of converting the 10-story, 357-room hotel at 899 N. Stemmons Freeway into a data center or retaining it as a possible county detention center, Dallas-based Circa Capital Corp. has put the mid-century modern hotel under contract and begun its due diligence to convert it back into a hotel.

"We have it under contract and we are doing our due diligence," Fred Aldridge III, president and CEO of Circa Capital, told the Dallas Business Journal."We are enthusiastic about where we are."

Aldridge would not detail out the real estate firm's plans for the hotel, which was originally built in the early 1960s. But his team has begun talking to a number of different hotel flags about the potential of converting the property back into a hotel.

And, he said, the firm could always convert into a boutique hotel without a typical hotel flag. If all goes well, Aldridge said the firm could buy the building by the end of the year.

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Postby DPatel304 » 11 Nov 2016 12:37

Wow.. so the original plans for both this and the Kroger have both changed into something significantly better and more urban. Great sign for the city, now we just need the Sam's Club at Cityplace to be gone.

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Postby Tnexster » 11 Nov 2016 13:00

I have had a soft spot for this one and will be very pleased if it gets repurposed back into a hotel again.

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Postby lakewoodhobo » 23 Sep 2017 00:26

Developer behind controversial Statler redo agrees to buy historic Cabana hotel from Dallas County

Late Friday the Dallas County Commissioners Court agreed to sell the 399,000-square-foot property, which sits on 3.275 acres near the Design District, to Centurion American Acquisition, LLC. The sale price, according to county records, is $8.1 million...

Mehrdad Moayedi, Centurion American's chief executive, said in a statement sent to The News on Friday he intends to preserve the old Cabana, which was built in 1962 by a development team that included Jay Sarno, who also developed Caesar's Palace and Circus Circus in Las Vegas, and partially owned by Doris Day.

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Postby citygeek » 23 Sep 2017 17:17

You won't recognize the Design District in 5 years. 3 new hotels, at least one office building, and several additional 20-30 story apartment towers on the way.
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Postby Tivo_Kenevil » 23 Sep 2017 22:24

citygeek wrote:You won't recognize the Design District in 5 years. 3 new hotels, at least one office building, and several additional 20-30 story apartment towers on the way.


Is there a plan for pedestrian updates. That entire area is disconnected and missing sidewalks everywhere.

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Postby mdg109 » 24 Sep 2017 09:18

^Design District always feels very Addison to me.

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Postby R1070 » 24 Sep 2017 14:07

Blasphemy! lol

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Postby muncien » 25 Sep 2017 08:43

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:
citygeek wrote:You won't recognize the Design District in 5 years. 3 new hotels, at least one office building, and several additional 20-30 story apartment towers on the way.


Is there a plan for pedestrian updates. That entire area is disconnected and missing sidewalks everywhere.


DD has/had a great opportunity to repurpose all the rail road ROW that used to be used for deliveries between the buildings and turn them into pedestrian corridors (at least some of them anyway). Instead, they appear to be getting slowly gobbled up by parking lots and such. That's a bit of a shame, IMO. Many areas would love to have those types of corridors available for pedestrian connectivity.
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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 25 Sep 2017 09:30

What they need is a "large" corporate tenant who wants a walkable campus to come in gobble up the galleries and the railway right of way and build out that pedestrian passageway to Victory Park under Stemmons to the DART station...
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cowboyeagle05 wrote:What they need is a "large" corporate tenant who wants a walkable campus to come in gobble up the galleries and the railway right of way and build out that pedestrian passageway to Victory Park under Stemmons to the DART station...

Corporate could do it or Dallas could balls up and pass some zoning with an urban vision for the area

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 25 Sep 2017 10:14

buildingswithlegs wrote: Corporate could do it or Dallas could balls up and pass some zoning with an urban vision for the area


The city has the zoning in place already its up developers to build it out in many places and the city not let them opt out of features that could affect the potential urban walkability.

http://www.dallascityattorney.com/51P/Articles%20Supp%2015/Article%20621.pdf

PD 621 is established on property generally bounded by Sylvan Avenue/Wycliff Avenue on the
northwest, the meanders of the old channel of the Trinity River on the north, Interstate 35 on the east,
Continental Avenue on the south, and the Trinity River Floodway on the west. The size of PD 621 is
approximately 415.13 acres. (Ord. Nos. 25013; 25560; 27006)

This special purpose district is to be known as the Old Trinity and Design District
Special Purpose District.

Subdistricts 1 and 1A are transit-oriented, mixed-use zoning district for the
development of combinations of medium-density residential, retail, and office uses.Development should encourage residential, retail, office, and lodging uses in compatible combinations within walking distance of DART light-rail stations; conserve energy; provide for efficient traffic circulation; conserve land;
minimize vehicular travel; encourage both day-time and night-time activity; encourage use of mass
transit; increase pedestrian activity; and encourage bicycle usage. Subdistricts 1 and 1A retain the
potential for limited industrial and warehouse uses.
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Postby Dettmann1 » 25 Sep 2017 15:02

cowboyeagle05 wrote:
buildingswithlegs wrote: Corporate could do it or Dallas could balls up and pass some zoning with an urban vision for the area


The city has the zoning in place already its up developers to build it out in many places and the city not let them opt out of features that could affect the potential urban walkability.

http://www.dallascityattorney.com/51P/Articles%20Supp%2015/Article%20621.pdf

PD 621 is established on property generally bounded by Sylvan Avenue/Wycliff Avenue on the
northwest, the meanders of the old channel of the Trinity River on the north, Interstate 35 on the east,
Continental Avenue on the south, and the Trinity River Floodway on the west. The size of PD 621 is
approximately 415.13 acres. (Ord. Nos. 25013; 25560; 27006)

This special purpose district is to be known as the Old Trinity and Design District
Special Purpose District.

Subdistricts 1 and 1A are transit-oriented, mixed-use zoning district for the
development of combinations of medium-density residential, retail, and office uses.Development should encourage residential, retail, office, and lodging uses in compatible combinations within walking distance of DART light-rail stations; conserve energy; provide for efficient traffic circulation; conserve land;
minimize vehicular travel; encourage both day-time and night-time activity; encourage use of mass
transit; increase pedestrian activity; and encourage bicycle usage. Subdistricts 1 and 1A retain the
potential for limited industrial and warehouse uses.


The city has the zoning in place? As someone who reads a lot of zoning code, the city of Dallas has some of the most convoluted, confusing and non-organized code you can find. Add into that the city does not have an external tracking system and you end up with a very difficult process to get anything done.

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Postby lakewoodhobo » 25 Sep 2017 15:57

DBJ version of the story has a little more info:
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... ml?ana=twt

The Farmers Branch-based development group is also planning to build a ground-up, 20-22 story residential tower atop a parking garage adjacent to the long-vacated property.

The $8.1 million deal is slated to close Nov. 15, with construction expected to start as early as mid-2018.

"We want to keep the history of the hotel," he added. "We want to create a different kind of hotel there for a hip, younger crowd with more of a Miami-style to it. I'm excited about it."

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Postby willyk » 25 Sep 2017 22:24

The location is currently an armpit, but the Lowest Stemmons Project should clean it up and make this a worthy location for a boutique hotel.

ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/ocr/paved/lowest-stemmons.pdf

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 26 Sep 2017 08:36

This is going to be one of those wait and see projects. They already have their hands full with finishing the Statler which is not near complete in its entirety with the parking garage mixed-use thing they have to build to keep the Dallas Morning News happy. Plus the Old Library isn't close to being ready for the DMN to move in yet.

They have made moves on South Dallas for a very large mixed-use project announced a month ago. They seem like a company that wants to be a Trammel Crow of sorts but balancing a few projects at a time takes a lot of competent professionals that some development companies never seem to hire.

Add on to that the tax financial scandal which can kill some potential partnerships that are needed to pull off a large mixed-use development in South Dallas.
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Postby lakewoodhobo » 05 Oct 2017 10:58

Since he wants this to be a Vegas-style hotel with pool, maybe Hard Rock Hotel can be lured back to North Texas after the last deal fell through.

Residential tower and resort pool are planned with Cabana hotel redo
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... hotel-redo

"The hotel is going to stay a hotel," Moayedi said. "We are going to give a big emphasis on a pool.
"It's going to be like a Las Vegas pool."
Moayedi said plan is to market the property to millennials who want a one-of-a-kind plans to stay, hang out and party.
"There sill be a lot of events," he said. "There will be a big nightclub in there and a couple of restaurants."

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Postby tamtagon » 05 Oct 2017 12:25

How about a Dallas-Style hotel with pool, night life, dining scene? Every time one of these dealios try to imitate a scene from Vegas, Miami, Chicago, NYC whatever, the potential is minimized. Gawh!

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Postby Tnexster » 08 Oct 2017 14:30

A second phase of development would add a residential high-rise.

"We are building a tower with 400 units of residential on the parking garage," Moayedi said.


This would be a fairly significant tower....would it not?

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Postby Cord1936 » 08 Oct 2017 20:43

Tnexster wrote:
A second phase of development would add a residential high-rise.

"We are building a tower with 400 units of residential on the parking garage," Moayedi said.


This would be a fairly significant tower....would it not?


The AMLI Fountain Place tower has 350 units at 46 stories and 562 feet tall, so the answer to your question is yes!

Using AMLI's specs to do some math it could make the Cabana residential tower around 642 feet and 53 or so stories tall.

So, yes, the future Cabana residential building could be a significant tower for that side of Stemmons! Would look incredible for a skyscraper of that height to be located there.

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Postby Tivo_Kenevil » 08 Oct 2017 23:35

tamtagon wrote:How about a Dallas-Style hotel with pool, night life, dining scene? Every time one of these dealios try to imitate a scene from Vegas, Miami, Chicago, NYC whatever, the potential is minimized. Gawh!

What is Dallas style?

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Postby hjkll » 09 Oct 2017 01:00

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:
tamtagon wrote:How about a Dallas-Style hotel with pool, night life, dining scene? Every time one of these dealios try to imitate a scene from Vegas, Miami, Chicago, NYC whatever, the potential is minimized. Gawh!

What is Dallas style?


Some hulking structure covered in LED lights with 0 ground floor retail and 16,000 parking spots

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Postby joshua.dodd » 09 Oct 2017 06:23

This is Dallas style:

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Postby exelone31 » 09 Oct 2017 09:56

What I'm guessing (pure shot in the dark) they mean by a "Las Vegas Pool" is something like a full-sized Sisu. That is definitely not my scene, but it seems to be extremely popular.

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Postby dallaz » 24 May 2018 07:37

Work underway to redo Dallas' landmark Cabana Hotel

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... bana-hotel

Work is moving ahead to turn save a landmark Dallas hotel.

The 56-year-old former Cabana Motor Hotel on Stemmons Freeway on the edge of downtown Dallas is being restored by Centurion American Development Group.

That's the same company that spent more than $230 million to redevelop downtown's landmark Statler Hotel.

Centurion American CEO Mehrdad Moayedi said demo work at the 10-story Cabana is wrapping up.

"We are doing the environmental clean up - all the asbestos is out," Moayedi said. "In another week we will be done."

Some of the interior space not original to the hotel is also being removed.

The building served as a minimum security jail for years before it was left vacant and sold by Dallas County.

"We are demoing stuff that is not historic," Moayedi said. "There were holding tanks and bars between the balconies and rooms."

Moayedi plans to convert the old hotel to 262 new rooms plus restaurants.

"It will be a combination of suites and 2-story cabana rooms," he said. "We are trying to get our historic plan approved in Austin."

Centurion American also intends to build a 140,000-square-foot apartment tower on top of the old hotel garage.

The Cabana was once one of Dallas' most fashionable accommodations.

It was constructed by Las Vegas developer Jay Sarno, who also built Caesar's Palace and Circus Circus.

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Postby cowboyeagle05 » 24 May 2018 08:14

Well, he is moving fast on this one, isn't he? I imagine this one he doesn't want to drag on like the Statler. He probably wants to get it done and move on.
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Postby lakewoodhobo » 24 May 2018 12:32

I'm surprised he's not asking for incentives from the Design District TIF. Seems a little too good to be true.

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Postby Tnexster » 24 May 2018 21:32

I'd like to know more about the 140,000 sf residential project on top of the garage.

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Postby dallaz » 18 Apr 2019 08:05

Developers seeking approval for high-rise addition to Dallas' Cabana Hotel

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... bana-hotel

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Postby lakewoodhobo » 18 Apr 2019 08:19

Glad to see this one in the news again. The site doesn't look very active and with Centurion working on so many other projects, I was afraid this plan would stall or get canceled.

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Postby tamtagon » 18 Apr 2019 08:49

So, maybe at the time in Dallas, the cycle refers more to part of town rather than supply's ability to meet demand...?

Still expensive but more affordable than LoMac (Victory Park Uptown), Design District and East Dallas developments continue the rebirthing cycle of "Downtown Dallas" as the geographic definition begins to line up more with the popular perception from the vast North Texas suburban environs that many neighborhoods are downtown. Turtle Creek, Victory Park, Uptown, West Village, Old East Dallas (Deep Ellum), The Cedars, CBD, Design District are all bundled together as what is downtown.

The real estate cycle waxes in one downtown neighborhood, wanes in another but hasn't stopped. Each milestone development along the way eases into the new normal after a few years and Downtown keeps getting bigger.

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Postby Tnexster » 18 Apr 2019 09:01

Good deal, I love this old hotel and DD needs another high rise.

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Postby jsoto3 » 26 Apr 2019 22:49

This zoning exhibit currently going through the City Plan Commission gives a sense of what this tower's approximate height and proportions might be:
https://dallascityhall.com/government/m ... 7_2018.pdf

EXHIBIT 621 L
TOWER DIAGRAMS FOR SUBDISTRICT 1J
Tower size and orientation. Building height may be increased a maximum of 60 feet if:
(1) the portion of the building above 75 feet in height has a floor plate of 25,000 square
feet or less; and
(2) the tower dimension perpendicular to the east Trinity River levee is at least three
times longer than the tower dimension parallel to the east Trinity River levee (tower dimension is
measured at the widest point of the building facade).

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Postby Tnexster » 27 Apr 2019 12:38

So what's the potential here? Looks like at least 32-35 floors but maybe higher?

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Postby Cord1936 » 27 Apr 2019 12:50

jsoto3 wrote:This zoning exhibit currently going through the City Plan Commission gives a sense of what this tower's approximate height and proportions might be:
https://dallascityhall.com/government/m ... 7_2018.pdf

EXHIBIT 621 L
TOWER DIAGRAMS FOR SUBDISTRICT 1J
Tower size and orientation. Building height may be increased a maximum of 60 feet if:
(1) the portion of the building above 75 feet in height has a floor plate of 25,000 square
feet or less; and
(2) the tower dimension perpendicular to the east Trinity River levee is at least three
times longer than the tower dimension parallel to the east Trinity River levee (tower dimension is
measured at the widest point of the building facade).

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Great news on this! The floor count in the Apartment Tower drawing is 37 ...

But what does the vertical annotation mean that says "Minimum 3X" with what appears to suggest additional height above the 37 floors? If that is the case it would push the floor count to 50.

And if so it also appears to suggest a sloping roofline at the top ... that design would be a great addition to the west side of Stemmons. It would create a definite skyscraper canyon effect driving through that area of I-35 and Downtown.

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Postby jsoto3 » 27 Apr 2019 15:09

^^ The diagram is a 3d axonometric and what you are seeing at the top is the flat roof of the tower, not a sloping roof or additional height. As noted in the text (item 2) included in my post directly above the diagram, the 3X dimension is specifying the minimum required tower length relative to its width (the horizontal dimension X at the top). This is a general requirement of the zoning district along this side of the Trinity (PD 621, the area between the river and I-35 and between Continental and Sylvan/Wycliff), with the intent to limit the width of the side of towers facing the Trinity and prevent a continuous wall of wide towers along the river corridor frontage.

Link to PD 621 (Old Trinity and Design District Special Purpose District):
http://dallascityattorney.com/51P/Artic ... %20621.pdf

To be clear, this diagram is a zoning guideline, not an exact proposal for the tower. So I wouldn't presume the floor count shown in the diagram is necessarily what it will actually be.
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Postby jsoto3 » 27 Apr 2019 15:18

The zoning case for this project (Z178-314) is described in the 5/2/19 CPC Docket, starting on page 337:
https://dallascityhall.com/government/m ... Docket.pdf

The zoning case is a request to create a new subdistrict specifically for this site within district PD 621 in order to increase the maximum allowable FAR (floor area ratio) to 5.5 and a max height up to 400ft, contingent on meeting certain conditions to achieve the bonuses.

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Postby willyk » 28 Apr 2019 00:05

I hope the architects do something that fits the original Las Vegas-Rat Pack vibe.

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Postby dallaz » 03 May 2019 11:11

Central Market project for Dallas' Uptown neighborhood gets approval


https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... s-approval


The plan commission also voted to allow developers restoring downtown Dallas' landmark Cabana Hotel to add a residential tower to the project.

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Postby lakewoodhobo » 03 May 2019 12:23

Of course I would love it if the residential tower had a distinctive MCM style, but something they could easily do that would be very complementary of the existing hotel is they could have glass balconies with this same pattern of breeze blocks etched in the glass.

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Postby Tnexster » 03 May 2019 21:33

Awesome, wonder how soon we will see some renderings of the new project?

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Postby lakewoodhobo » 17 Sep 2019 17:17

First look: Renovation of downtown Dallas' historic Cabana Hotel is moving ahead
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... ing-ahead/

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Postby lakewoodhobo » 19 Sep 2019 10:12

I realized after the most recent story came out that there's very little info out there about the other Cabana motor hotels that were developed by the same group of investors, including Doris Day, and whether they still exist. So far I've found three others, although one was never actually named Cabaña.

Atlanta Cabana, opened in 1958 and razed in 2002.
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Palo Alto Cabana, opened in 1962 and modernized in the late 90s to become the Crowne Plaza Palo Alto (still open). Coincidentally, the Beatles also stayed at this hotel while on tour.

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The Parliament House Motor Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama looks almost identical to the Dallas Cabaña. It was built in 1964 and destroyed in 2008. This hotel was meant to open as the Birmingham Cabaña, but the group of investors backed out before it was finished due to the intense racial/political climate there.

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Re: Design District: Cabana Hotel

Postby Tnexster » 19 Sep 2019 12:36

I love this project! Hope it comes out as well as the plans look.

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Postby texasstar » 19 Sep 2019 12:55

Wow, we saved something that other cities demolished. That's a twist.

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Postby Tnexster » 04 Nov 2019 09:27

Developer seeks incentives for historic downtown Dallas hotel project

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... l-project/

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Postby CTroyMathis » 04 Sep 2020 14:21

Due to the last post being November of last year, I'm not sure if there is another thread out there or more recent bits/pieces are scattered w/in other threads.

Anyhow, looks like renovations for the rest of the floors can/may/will (?) start soon:
https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/ ... 2020022199

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Postby willyk » 08 Sep 2020 03:59

Would be nice if the City would improve the sidewalks on Dragon and Slocum to encourage more street life and investment between The Cabana, The Virgin and on to the Trinity Strand.

Seems to be a frequent problem that Dallas has great assets to anchor infill, but Dallas doesn’t make the investments in infrastructure to connect them. So, they remain as islands. Perot/KWP and EMC/EQ/FM/DE are other prime examples.

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Postby CTroyMathis » 20 Nov 2020 14:10

Just some more data showing how much longer the renovation will take including an unfinished 11th floor addition, perhaps partial coverage over current roof.
https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/ ... 2021004603