Originally Posted by
khabah
Le Méridien Fort Worth announced; this will be a redevelopment of the shuttered-since-2006 Hotel Texas Annex at 815 Commerce Street adjacent to Hilton Fort Worth. The hotel will have 189 rooms, a restaurant, library, new rooftop bar on the 14th floor, meeting spaces and an overhauled pool deck. It's quite an odious little building, but the design sounds promising and the owners are excited to bring Le Méridien in, so I'm confident it will be an attractive property.
Redevelopment of the building started in January 2022, with opening planned for 2023.
khabah
I love how they pitch it as a "historic" building in the press release.
The historic part, if it can be called that, is the 5-story lower portion, which was originally the parking garage for the Hotel Texas. The garage was constructed in 1928. The 8-story hotel portion on top, reached from the main hotel building by a skybridge, was added by Sheraton in 1970, and isn't historic at all.
The structure was going to be converted to apartments a few years back, hope they gut it down to the skeleton for the hotel refurb.
I would presume they'll have to convert the lower parking levels to a lobby, restaurant, bar, etc, since the structure had only the upper-floor guest rooms before.
I did a lot of updating on the hotel's Wikipedia page a while back:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Texas