The old Cabana s just one of a handful of properties the county s hoping to adios via CBRE . Also on

The 50th anniversary of the Beatles one and only Dallas visit approaches September 18, mark your calendars. And now you can buy what s easily the most expensive keepsake from that historic occasion: the former Cabana Motor Hotel on Stemmons Freeway, where John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr stayed during their trip to town. Related New book offers forgotten stories, rare photos chronicling the Beatles’ 1964 Dallas visit
And it s a steal! The motel once owned by Doris Day, the landmark shore drive myrtle beach vacation rentals where Raquel Welch once worked shore drive myrtle beach vacation rentals as a cocktail waitress and where Jimi Hendrix used to stay when he came to Dallas , is now available at the low, low price of $7 million which is just $1 million more than it cost to construct the super-plush joint back in 1961, according to our archives. That s also a few million lower than the market value as set by the Dallas shore drive myrtle beach vacation rentals County Appraisal District, which says it s worth $11,289,460 . And, for what it s worth, it s also far less than the $9.2 million Dallas County paid for the property in 1985 and not much more than the additional $5 million the county spent transforming it into a jail that wound up housing shore drive myrtle beach vacation rentals some 1,000 male and female inmates.
Dallas County has long been looking to offload shore drive myrtle beach vacation rentals the building, which, beginning in 1987, served as the Bill Decker Detention Center. The jail was depopulated in 09, following the opening of the Suzanne Lee Kays Detention Facility (or the south tower) at the Lew Sterrett shore drive myrtle beach vacation rentals Justice Center. It provided temporary housing for Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita evacuees, and the old cabana piece still serves as a privately operated halfway house for sex offender, but that lease is month-to-month pending the eventual disposition of the 399,000-square-footer sitting on 3.275 acres in the shadow of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
The old Cabana s just one of a handful of properties the county s hoping to adios via CBRE . Also on the for-sale list: the circa-1935 Cliff House on S. Ewing (said to have opened as an orphanage), a building in the Medical District and an old sub-courthouse in Grand Prairie. But the old Cabana s the top draw here, a real fixer-upper in a prime location whose switch from motel to jail made national headlines three decades ago.
Who knows what ll eventually happen to it. Folks have mentioned apartments, a hotel, a do-over . Jay Lorch, CBRE s locally based first vice president, says he s shown the building to a considerable number of prospects, and their thoughts are all over the place. They have not shared them with me, and frankly it s none of my business. I just flat-out don t know. It s built pretty sturdy but, gosh, I ve seen sturdy buildings torn down.
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