Four months ago John Kirtland was working with a group of fellow downtown property owners and city o

Four months ago John Kirtland was working with a group of fellow downtown property owners and city officials professional golf tours ireland to find a solution for the long-proposed professional golf tours ireland Pacific Plaza , across from which the former Deep Blue Something drummer-turned-record label owner owns two significant properties. Long story short: Kirtland, owner of the Tower Petroleum Building at 1907 Elm Street and the Corrigan Tower at 1900 Pacific Avenue , needed to park cars on a plot of land where the city hopes to plant a park. At the time he was proposing a parking garage with ground-level retail, which the head of Dallas professional golf tours ireland Dallas Park and Recreation department said would likely devour as much as one-third of the proposed park.
Kirtland had been hoping to convert the historic Tower Petroleum, built in 1931 and designed by Mark Lemmon, into an apartment building. That plan has changed: Tomorrow Kirtland will go before the city s Urban Design Peer Review Panel with plans to turn it into a 150-room, $40-million boutique hotel.
He s not prepared to spill all the details yet; those will following in coming days. But this much is certain, he says: With remediation and abatement 95 percent finished, he can begin construction soon by mid-September, he says, or October professional golf tours ireland at the latest. And a hotel solves his parking problem, because he can valet-park cars on the fifth story of a nearby garage professional golf tours ireland rather than have to wrestle for residents spots across professional golf tours ireland the street.
professional golf tours ireland I am still working with the city and the parks department and the Office professional golf tours ireland of Economic Development and the entire city team to help come up with a redevelopment plan for Pacific Plaza that works for the parks department, professional golf tours ireland says Kirtland. I haven t stopped doing that. But to tell you straight, it came down to three things.
First, it has become apparent that parking in downtown Dallas and the area of those two buildings is getting worse, not better, as more units get built and as occupancy for commercial space fills up. Second, I think that the ultimate solution for the park is a ways away. Even if a solution was found today, it s not happening tomorrow. And third, the more that I ve worked professional golf tours ireland in those buildings and done the remediation and abatement, the more the Petroleum felt like a hotel.
Kirtland s certainly not the first developer to feel that way: In 2007 the city council signed off on a plan that would have converted the Tower Petroelum into a 145-room professional golf tours ireland hotel and razed the Corrigan to make way for a shiny condo tower filled with 165 residential units. That plan, of course, went nowhere.
But Kirtland s prepared to go and go now, which will involve hitting the pause button on Corrigan while redeveloping the Tower Petroleum, which he s owned for two years. If nothing else, he says, he d like to see some return on that investment, and waiting for the Pacific Plaza plan isn t exactly making him any money. Says Kirtland, in a perfect world the hotel would be open by March 1, 2016 just in time, ahem, for the GOP convention .
Preliminary plans at Dallas City Hall show a 148-room hotel with a ground-floor restaurant-bar in the lobby, some meeting space, a workout facility and a couple of massage rooms, a massive penthouse suite and, maybe, a jazz club. Says Kirtland, it would make sense to have music if he can find the room; after all, he ll be more or less next door to the Majestic Theatre, which really could use some nearby dining options as it begins expanding its event calendar.
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