Statler Hilton

Interview with an Architect: Modernist Cliff Welch Featured in White Rock Home Tour

By Leah Shafer / April 17, 2015 /

In our ongoing series, Interview with an Architect, we speak with leading voices in the North Texas architecture community and learn about their work, development issues in our community, and good design practices and principals (you can read the first one here and the second one here). Cliff Welch, AIA, is a Dallas-based architect who champions modern…

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Preservation Dallas Produces Exhibit on Architectural Styles of Dallas

By Leah Shafer / March 18, 2015 /

For the architecturally curious, things like the difference between Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style houses and the hallmarks of the Tudor Revival style are the stuff of late-night curious Googling. A new exhibit produced by Preservation Dallas aims to clarify such matters using iconic Dallas architecture like the Old Red Museum and the Statler Hilton to…

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Time to Bust Out The Bubbly! Statler Hilton is (Finally) Under Contract With Plans For an Amazing Comeback

By Joanna England / May 29, 2014 /

Oh boy! We’re excited folks! The deal has gone through, and just as Candy predicted, Mehrdad Moayedi and his firm, Centurion American, have purchased the Statler Hilton from Leobardo Trevino’s Ricchi Investments. Of course, there’ll be no pomp and circumstance or champagne cork popping in the streets like the celebration dance City Hall enjoyed when…

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Dean & Deluca, Apple, Nike, H&M and More: What Mehrdad Has In Store for the Statler

By Candy Evans / February 3, 2014 /

I had to stop myself from making yet another one of the 20,000 editing mistakes one (I) makes when blogging 3000 to 5000 words per day. I almost typed “Has in Store for the Stoneleigh” instead of Statler, as in Statler Hilton in downtown Dallas. He owns the Creeks of Preston Hollow, too. Mehrdad just…

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Breaking: Champ d'Or On the Market for $35 Million in Hickory Creek

By Candy Evans / January 28, 2014 /

Yes, you heard that right and no, this is not deja vue. The Dallas real estate market is back, and so is Champ d’Or, listed this time with that go-getter of a Rogers Healy, priced at $35 million. You may recall the 48,000-square-foot Hickory Creek mansion (basically Denton), known as Champ d’Or, which translates to “Fields…

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