Robbie Briggs on "Nasher Says No to Museum Tower’s Offer to Replace Oculi Roof": MT Sales Mounting

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Steve and Robbie Museum TowerRobbie Briggs, whose firms Briggs Freeman Sothebys, is marketing Museum Tower, is also disappointed that the Nasher has turned down Museum Tower’s offer to completely redo the Nasher roof and move on so he can move some properties. MT’s offer is one he called “generous”.

“It would be a lot more fun if the whole Arts District was behind it, and we could all be celebrating at a cocktail reception flowing from the Nasher to Museum Tower,” he told me. “I am still hopeful for a solution or that the parties will begin talking again soon.”

Meantime, Briggs has sold 4 units at Museum Tower this month. Robbie confirmed what other sources had told me: any manipulation or structural change in Museum Tower’s glass is an impossible solution as it voids the glass warranties and make it difficult, if not impossible, to insure the building. As for the garden, he says Museum Tower has offered to replace anything that has ever died there.

“I was there for the presentation to Nancy and David, and they had a very nice interaction. We never heard anything back. Then they went public.”

So what, I asked, is the pulse of buyers who are coming in to see the units?

“Most people say, ‘what’s the latest’. We say, ‘we are working on a solution,’ ” says Robbie. “Then they say, ‘show us the units!'”

Briggs has sold four this month. One high-profile Dallas couple we know of has moved in and has offered to bring in friends — stay tuned to this blog for more on that. And many of the city’s top social organizations are clamoring to hold their patron parties at Museum Tower.

“A lot of people are embracing it,” says Robbie, who adds it may take years before the emotion dies down.

“Museum Tower made an unintentional mistake, they have admitted it and have stepped up to pay for it,” he says. “I just wish we had the entire Arts District united behind this amazing building.”Museum Tower Int 041 Museum Tower Int 052 Museum Tower Int 053 Museum Tower Int 049 Museum Tower Int 048 Museum Tower Int 037 Museum Tower Int 046 Museum Tower Int 040 Museum Tower Int 036 Museum Tower Int 033 Museum Tower Int 030

 

 

 

 

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

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