cabana motor hotel

The Late Raquel Welch Was a ‘Goddess’ in Dallas

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / February 18, 2023 /

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…

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Mehrdad Moayedi Buying, Reviving Cabana Motor Hotel Where Beatles Stayed: Hotel, Pool, Bars

By Candy Evans / October 6, 2017 /

Mehrdad Moayedi is nearing the end of his three-year, $230 million renovation of the historic Statler Hilton in downtown Dallas. He bought the iconic hotel in 2014 with $46.5 million in TIF financing and has almost completed making it into a totally glam live-work-play-stay destination again. What does Mehrdad need now? Another project! And the…

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Residential High Rise Rumored with Sale of Cabana Hotel

By Leah Shafer / November 12, 2014 /

A storied property near the Dallas Design District that fell from a swinging night spot and hotel for rock stars in the 1960s to housing for county prisoners and sex offenders in the 1980s and 1990s may be on the rise again. According to this Dallas Morning News story first reported by Robert Wilonsky, the Dallas…

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