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United Fidelity building in Downtown Dallas to become Homewood Suites hotel
The 10-story high-rise at 1025 Elm St. originally housed the offices of the Texas & Pacific Railroad.
By STEVE BROWN
Real Estate Editor
stevebrown@dallasnews.com
Published 08 August 2011 10:57 AM
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An Irving hotel firm is transforming a vacant downtown Dallas office building into an all-suite hotel.
The former United Fidelity Life Insurance Building at 1025 Elm St. has been vacant for more than a decade.
Earlier this year, Lowen Hospitality Management bought the property out of foreclosure. It has begun work to convert it to a Homewood Suites by Hilton Hotel.
The first phase is to gut the old building and ready it for redevelopment, Lowen officer Sanjay Naik said Monday.
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Built in 1918, the 10-story high-rise originally housed the offices of the Texas & Pacific Railroad.
In 1920, United Fidelity bought the Texas & Pacific Building located between Elm Street and Pacific Avenue and moved its office into the lower floors of the high-rise. Most of the building remained occupied by the railroad into the 1950s.
The insurance company in 1959 decided to modernize the classical-style high-rise with a glass and metal exterior.
That’s when an adjoining five-story parking garage was constructed facing Griffin Street.
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Dallas architecture, engineering and design firm Aguirre Roden Inc. is handling the work on the renovation project.
“We are in the design phase of the renovation as well as performing some demolition work,” executive vice president Gary Roden said.
The Elm Street project is the third new hotel development under way downtown.
Construction will be completed later this year on the Omni Dallas convention hotel on Young Street. South of the convention center on Lamar Street, development has begun on a 76-room Nylo Hotel.
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