Update: 4-28-2017, 8:18 a.m. — This article was updated to correct the height description of the Westin and the structural materials description of the Texican Court, and to clarify the corporate name of the primary architect.
Posted: 4-26-2017, 1:40 p.m.
by Adolfo Pesquera
Irving (Dallas County) – Invited contractors will be submitting bids by May 2 for the construction of the 148-room Valencia Texican Court hotel.
The hotel will be located at the southeast corner of West Las Colinas Boulevard and West Northwest Highway, and north of Promenade Parkway. It is the smaller of two hotels to be constructed adjacent to the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas.
Earlier this spring, Irving officials held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Westin Irving Convention Center Hotel, a 13-story, 350-room project that will include a 16,000-square-foot ballroom and meeting space. Preston Hollow Capital arranged a $115 million construction loan for the Westin project, and Austin Commercial LP was the selected general contractor.
The Westin hotel project is scheduled to open in early 2018.
BOKA Powell LLC is the architect on both the Westin and the Valencia Texican Court. The estimated cost for Valencia Texican Court is $17.6 million. The hotel will be comprised of several one- to three-story metal frame buildings, a swimming pool, courtyard and surface parking with 157 spaces.
The total building footprint for Texican Court is about 45,000 square feet, according to the project specifications.
Houston-based Valenicia Group controls the project through a separate entity, Southern Star Las Colinas LP. The rest of the Texican Court development team includes landscape architect Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, interior designer Rottet Studio, and civil/structural engineer RLG Consulting Engineers. The MEP is Blum Engineers.
The two hotels are key components in the redevelopment of the convention center and the commercial lands around Lake Carolyn. This includes construction of the $180 million Music Factory, which began last year and is expected to be open by the end of this year.
The Music Factory will include an eight-screen Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 8,000-seat Live Nation indoor/outdoor concert hall, other entertainment venues, restaurants and speciality eateries.
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