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DOWNTOWN DALLAS - The biggest hotel in town is about to get a $10 million face-lift.
In a project that's scheduled to start this summer, the Adam's Mark Hotel in downtown Dallas will renovate its south tower, which includes 500 of the hotel's 1,842 guest rooms.
Besides new furniture and "soft goods" like bedspreads and carpeting, the tower will get all-new bathrooms and hallways and an updated heating and air-conditioning system.
Michael Spamer, who was named general manager of Adam's Mark Dallas in November, says the rehab work will be handled by the hotel's owner, St. Louis-based HBE Corp., and should be completed early next year.
Privately held HBE, one of the nation's leading design-build firms, in 1996 acquired what was then The Southland Center, consisting of two high-rise office buildings and a 500-room Sheraton hotel.
The company converted the office space to guest rooms, upgraded the existing hotel and developed a four-story, 210,000-square-foot meeting area. In 2000, the Adam's Mark Dallas was refinanced for $180 million.
With more than 1,800 rooms and 230,000 square feet of meeting and exhibition space, the HBE property is the largest hotel in Dallas indeed, in the state of Texas. It will have a close rival for that distinction...