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Austinites to play big role in $65M restoration of historic Texas hotel
By Catherine Leffert and Will Anderson – Austin Business Journal
Jun 21, 2019, 2:46pm CDT Updated 8 hours ago
A historic hotel in North Texas is getting a $65 million makeover, with the help of a prominent Austin restaurateur and hotelier.
More details on the plan to renovate the 90-year-old Baker Hotel and Spa in Mineral Wells, west of Dallas, were announced June 19. The site was purchased by businessmen from Dallas and Austin with the vision of restoring the Great Depression-era property to its former glory and reopening it in 2022.
Hotel honoring Grant Teaff planned for Lake Brazos
By MIKE COPELAND Sep 5, 2019
A local businessman with a track record of proposals that have failed to come to fruition has launched a multimedia advertising campaign for a planned 17-story, 326-unit hotel on Lake Brazos called the Grant Hotel, in honor of Baylor University’s winningest football coach, Grant Teaff.
“And we are going to get it done,” added Dyson, who said Base4, an international architectural firm specializing in modular construction, has spearheaded design of the complex Dyson proposes placing at Marlin Highway and South Loop Drive, near La Salle Avenue, on land once occupied by Young Brothers Contractors and later Knife River Construction.