Historic building renovation stays on budget with PEX-a
When the Texas and Pacific Railroad built its Dallas headquarters facility in 1918, they probably couldn’t have imagined that almost a century late, the building would be converted into a hotel to accommodate the ever-increasing number of visitors to downtown.
The railroad left the building to a bank in the late 1950s, and since then the building has endured several facelifts and remodels until it closed in early 2000. A decade later, Irving, TX-based Lowen Hospitality management bought the office building and began to convert the building into a Homewood Suites by Hilton. Lowen Hospitality hired the Dallas architecture and engineering design firm of Aguirre Roden, Inc. (ARI) and Aguirre Roden Building Solutions (ARBS) to fill their needs for a design-build format.