Cabana Hotel
The Cabana Hotel has earned its spot in Dallas folklore. The Beatles and Led Zeppelin crashed there. Raquel Welch worked as a cocktail waitress there. It was modeled after Caesar’s Palace and did a little hard time as a county jail. And now, Dallas’ historic Cabana Hotel will be redeveloped into affordable apartments. Developer Zach…
The Dallas City Council approved Wednesday $41 million in tax increment financing funds for the redevelopment of the former Cabana Hotel into mixed-income housing. Developer Zach Krochtengel with Cabana Sycamore Development Inc. requested the Tax Increment Financing funds to boost a $116 million redevelopment project on 3.27 acres at 899 North Stemmons Freeway. The former…
A local developer announced last week that he’s buying the Cabana Hotel and redeveloping it into affordable apartments. Zachary Krochtengel of Sycamore Strategies recently made headlines for his plans to build a mixed-income project, Cypress Creek at Forest Lane, in the Lake Highlands area. That project was denied by the Dallas City Council due to…
By Nancy Smith Special Contributor Raquel Welch, the brunette bombshell actress of film, television, and stage, passed away in her L.A. home Wednesday after a brief illness at age 82. As a journalist, I fondly recall my own interactions with Welch, who had several Dallas connections decades apart. When I was the business editor for…
An overcrowded jail that’s not up to code is prompting Dallas County commissioners to contemplate demolishing and moving the facility — making way for prime real estate on the western edge of downtown Dallas. Commissioners will appoint a committee next month to analyze the situation and make a recommendation within a year on whether to…
