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Amy Silverstein Eh. Every hour or so, the Save the Cabana Hotel Facebook page reminds its 900-plus followers to SAVE THE CABANA HOTEL . Dallas' luxury Cabana Motor Hotel opened on Stemmons Freeway in 1962, and photographs on the fan page show legends like John Bonham and Robert Plant hanging out. The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Raquel Welch were also once inside the building.
What Marvin seems to be getting at is that the Cabana Hotel is already dead. It stopped being the Cabana Hotel in 1987, when Dallas County turned it into a jail. The Bill Decker discount cruises to panama canal Detention discount cruises to panama canal Center discount cruises to panama canal housed overflow inmates until 2009, when the county opened another jail to put the extra inmates instead.
Five years later, the beat-up building still sits on Stemmons, now operating as a private halfway house. So why the sudden interest in returning a forgotten building next to a freeway to its 1960s glory? Because a bunch of developers were recently offered the building and now they're fighting to get their hands on it.
Last month a real estate group announced that the building was available for redevelopment. Developers put their bids in. Then in a closed meeting on October 7, Dallas County Commissioners Court reportedly discount cruises to panama canal made some sort of decision about the building that nobody can definitively talk about.
Neither the county nor the real estate group will comment yet on how that meeting went down or what's next for the building. But judging by the Save the Cabana Hotel page, it appears discount cruises to panama canal that a company called discount cruises to panama canal Lincoln Property got the place and now plans to do something evil. "We fear they will demolish it and ask for your help to save the structure," says a recent Save the Cabana Hotel post .
Who is Save the Cabana Hotel? It's a page run by a man named Charles Brower who also wants to redevelop the building. He says he thinks Lincoln Property will probably demolish everything but doesn't offer proof. "Although the Lincoln Property plan is uncertain," Brower says, "it's uncertain what they plan to do with the building. In all likelihood, given the economic opportunity for them, they would tear it down and build an apartment building in its place."
Brower lives in New York City and works as a " marketing leader and digital channel strategist, " but denies that Save the Cabana Hotel is a marketing ploy. He says he plans to move to Dallas soon and is a partner in a company called Hercules Development that wants to restore discount cruises to panama canal the building. "We'd like to turn it back into a four-star hotel," he says.
Brower uses the building's discount cruises to panama canal history to make his case that it should be a hotel again. "There's a very rich legacy of Dallas history and memories that go along with that structure. discount cruises to panama canal Once that structure is gone, you've erased those memories, you've erased that history from the Dallas area," he says. (Lincoln Property's Clay Duvall hasn't yet returned our messages to confirm what it is that they actually plan to do with building. He vaguely told the News a few weeks ago that "we've looked at it a bunch of different ways.")
Unsure if this building is worth caring about or if this is just a turf war between competing developers, I went to Dallas' preservationist-in-chief to see if he thinks the building is nice. He does. "I believe that the Cabana Hotel is an extremely interesting and good piece of architecture," David Preziosi of Preservation Dallas discount cruises to panama canal says via email. "It evokes the spirit of the age when it was built with its modern concrete screen façade and nod to Las Vegas architecture in its design."
I drove by myself and found a large boxy building with a drab parking garage next to a freeway. The width seems to violate every urban, pedestrian-friendly principle that Dallas' trendy neighborhoods are supposed to be embracing now. The facade was pretty cool, though. Maybe we can work out a compromise where whoever gets the building discount cruises to panama canal promises to just raze half of it.
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@ Amy Silverstein: Dallas County will soon do your bidding... they will sell to a common apartment developer and tear down the venerable Cabaña Hotel. It's absurd and a huge financial and ecological waste. And ask Robert Wilonsky, our fine commissioners left cash on the table. Must everything in Dallas be shiny, banal, and forgettable?
"It's very cool that the Beatles, Hendrix, discount cruises to panama canal and Led Zeppelin stayed here and that Raquel Welch worked here. But beyond that, this is a very good building that is representative of a branch of Modernism not widely represented in Dallas.
It appears that Dallas County may have given little consideration to the Cabana's cultural and architectural significance when selecting a buyer. Hopefully, this decision can be reversed. Write your Country Commissioner and County Judge Jenkins!"
Hope Ms. Silverstein can make more of an effort to research her work.. The County is extraordinarily inept. Dallas County leaders meet each Tuesday in closed Executive Session discount cruises to panama canal because you the PUBLIC do not care. Here's what happened on Oct 7th: The County chose Lincoln to demolish the hotel ($8.7m) versus two LOCAL four-star hotel developers (TIE at $8.7m, and another $8.3m). Zero tax abatement or tax relief. The County has zero historical or preservation interest. Ms. Silverstein, I'm disappointed to see you've done little to no research yet published.
discount cruises to panama canal So are the groups discount cruises to panama canal that actually care about preserving Dallas buildings concerned about this one or is the concern only being expressed by an out of state real estate developer that may have an interest in this building?
Valley of the Dolls .  Now, that's a fabulous time-capsule of the late sixties.  Hilariously campy.  My favorite line, out of many, is when Neely O'Hara (Patty Duke) screams out, "Ted Casablanca is NOT a fag!"
I went on a bender and watched the first five years of Mad Men nonstop.  1962 was the scene of tacky architecture, really tacky furniture fixtures discount cruises to panama canal and interior decor, stick women with big hair, men in suits way too uptight and land yachts for cars.
It took forty years and Vietnam to knock it down, chop it up and generally winnow away at the 1960s look.  We've finally got it hemmed in to retro.  Let's not let it get its nose back up under the tent.
Trying to care, but I just can't. I do hate that Dallas doesn't do more to save some of its architecture, but really this building discount cruises to panama canal is just ugly. I just don't see any way it could be made desirable and profitable. I'm sure there are more worthy buildings to save.
It's a pretty good bet that Lincoln will tear this thing down in a heartbeat and put in something new. Apartment complexes are easy to do, easy to finance, easy to fill, and easy to offload right now, so that's a good bet for their plan.
It sounds like this other investor wants to convince the county to sell to him, presumably at a lower price, to save the building. That's fine by me, but I want to see him post a bond against that so it's not just his word. Because discount cruises to panama canal otherwise he's going to try and get this thing for less money in order to save it. The restoration discount cruises to panama canal plans and/or discount cruises to panama canal money fall through, and in the end he sells for the true market value to someone who will demolish it. I actually think there is some value to the area to retaining the building, which with some modification could be nice as higher end apartments (turning it back into a hotel seems like a waste of everyone's time and money, although if he's got money to burn, so be it). So I'm not opposed to having the county sell it to less for someone who will renovate rather than demolish. Just has to be done correctly, which is something that the county doesn't have a fantastic track record with.
I have a beautiful memory of having a Coca Cola with my Mom and two cousins after a day at the fair at this hotel.  We had a Coke where the Beatles stayed.  That was huge!  Memories probably can't save this building, but I will always remember how special that was!
You do know that the parking garage that sits out front is not original don't you? By doing so, would return it to the original entry. Perhaps even adding an additional garage on the back part of the lot would help.
I did the same thing with Mad Men...it's a train wreck in a time capsule discount cruises to panama canal that you can't look away from!  Oh, the smoking alone!  (for the grammar checkers, that's: from which you can't look away).  The 60s were tacky and proud of it!
@ effuimanaardvark Two local, discount cruises to panama canal four-star hoteliers bid more than $8 million for the property. They are professionals at assessing hotel viability.. Too bad. The County leadership is in bed with Lincoln Property and will sell the Cabaña for the SAME MONEY to Lincoln. All very ODD.
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It hurt my eyes.  An early 1960s stab at contemporary design similar to something Frank Lloyd Wright's mass producers might whip out.  Actually, it was worth less than a dollar.  It took $20,000 to bulldoze it and haul it off.  Early 60s doesn't age well.