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#51 Nitixope

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Posted 17 March 2021 - 06:40 PM

Looks nice.

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Posted 20 October 2021 - 04:59 PM

Abilene has broken ground on their downtown hotel.

https://www.google.c.../amp/8459279002

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Posted 01 November 2021 - 09:41 AM

The Wyatt Hedrick-designed Brownwood Hotel will be a hotel again. 

 

 

The Brownwood Historic Texas Hotel LLC finalized its purchase of the former Brownwood Hotel property, located at the corner of Fisk and Baker. The company, headed up by Jeff Tucker, owner of Teddy’s Brewhaus, intends to renovate the facility and create a boutique hotel that opens its doors to the public approximately three years from now.

https://www.brownwoodnews.com/2021/10/06/brownwood-historic-texas-hotel-llc-finalizes-purchase-of-downtown-landmark/ 



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Posted 01 November 2021 - 10:29 AM

Here's a little more info on the group that did the feasibility study on this hotel and other similar projects including (Wyatt-designed) Baker in M.W. 

https://brownwoodbus...brownwood-hotel

 

“Timing is good for this type of study, as there are a large amount of state and federal tax credits, as well as energy efficiency programs to layer in financial analysis for the renovation.  We feel the current environment is great timing to explore the options of the hotel revitalization project," said the director of economic development, Ray Tipton.

 

The McCaslin Hotel Consulting, LLC providing a unique set of services: https://mccaslinhotelconsulting.com/

Our services include market studies, asset management, internal rate of return/gap analysis, economic impact studies, RFQ/RFP process management, hotel occupancy tax projections, repositioning studies and brand impact studies.

 

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Posted 19 April 2022 - 08:02 PM

College Station getting a new tallest building

 

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Posted 03 July 2023 - 12:09 PM

The Denison Hotel restoration seems to have died during covid but there's a new TDLR filing for it: https://www.tdlr.tex.../TABS2023022601



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Posted 03 July 2023 - 12:14 PM

The new hotel in Abilene is open: https://ktxs.com/new...mes-first-guest

 

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Posted 03 July 2023 - 12:48 PM

The Denison Hotel restoration seems to have died during covid but there's a new TDLR filing for it: https://www.tdlr.tex.../TABS2023022601


That’s cool to see. The hotel (and the downtown) remind me of the LaSalle hotel in downtown Bryan. We recently had family move to Denison. I’ll look to stay here when it opens.

The Google Streetview was updated 3 days ago. Looks like there is a construction debris chute on-site.

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Posted 03 July 2023 - 12:56 PM

 

The Denison Hotel restoration seems to have died during covid but there's a new TDLR filing for it: https://www.tdlr.tex.../TABS2023022601


That’s cool to see. The hotel (and the downtown) remind me of the LaSalle hotel in downtown Bryan. We recently had family move to Denison. I’ll look to stay here when it opens.

The Google Streetview was updated 3 days ago. Looks like there is a construction debris chute on-site.

 

 

The Facebook page on the project went silent in March 2020: https://www.facebook...TheHotelDenison

 

The last post, 

 

 

Due to COVID-19 we have decided to postpone our renovation in an effort to keep our community and workers safe. We will resume as soon as possible and look forward to continuing to share the progress with you!


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Posted 25 July 2023 - 07:35 PM

Article: My husband and I moved to a remote Texas town for work. We thought it'd be temporary, but we just bought our second home and don't plan to leave.
https://www.business...home-2023-7?amp

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Posted 26 July 2023 - 07:18 AM

Article: My husband and I moved to a remote Texas town for work. We thought it'd be temporary, but we just bought our second home and don't plan to leave.
https://www.business...home-2023-7?amp


Ok I laughed out loud when the ‘remote’ town was Midland. I enjoy reading these personal stories, the Fort Worth Report does a neighborhood edition that is fun to read. They are really roughing it it Midland, not sure how my college friends get by with their country club, nice steakhouses, cushy oil jobs, and direct flights to anywhere in Texas, Vegas, or Phoenix. I figured by the title they would live in Junction, Dumas, or Alpine.

Enough of the the snark, I’m bullish on Texas mid-size cities and even smaller towns to grow as cities get more expensive and remote work more common. The ‘Magnolia Effect’ in Waco or the artist effect in Marfa. It takes just handful of creative types or investors to look at a small town and breathe life into it. We are starting to see that in the greater Austin area. People looking at living in towns like Rockdale as a future exurb of Austin. The growth can be painful, but hopefully it gives the historic buildings in the quaint town centers new purpose.

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Posted 01 March 2024 - 11:43 PM

Midland's Hotel Santa Rita never was built and evenutally canceled, the lot will now be home to a park.

 

https://www.cbs7.com...-491512111.html

 

I somehow missed that this park opened in 2020. It looks really nice!

 

https://www.centennialparkmidland.org/



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Posted 02 March 2024 - 08:47 AM

Midland's Hotel Santa Rita never was built and evenutally canceled, the lot will now be home to a park.
 
https://www.cbs7.com...-491512111.html

 
I somehow missed that this park opened in 2020. It looks really nice!
 
https://www.centennialparkmidland.org/

That looks really nice! Glad they built that.

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Posted 05 March 2024 - 12:36 PM

I guess when you are moving from Amarillo then Midland may be a 1/2 step upwards.  I stopped there on a trip to New Mexico and I went with an open mind.  Not my cup of tea.  Not to mention that the physical geography of the entire Permian Basin is really bad.  It looks like it is stuck in the middle of a nuclear winter.


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Posted 05 March 2024 - 02:48 PM

My aunt used to live in Amarillo, sometimes we would go there just to visit, and other times we would stay at her place overnight on our driving trips to Colorado and Northern New Mexico.  I'm fairly familiar with the city.  On our trips to both Big Bend National Park and on separate trips to the Davis Mountains, we would always stop in Midland to grab a bite to eat.  I will agree that the geography is poor, but I would always love to the the first glimpse of the mountains as we were heading west.


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