The streetclothes are already being shed from the recently vacated office building at the corner of Main St. and Rusk downtown where a Fort Worth development and hospitality company is planning its next hotel project. Pearl Real Estate announced plans to gut and renovate the 22-story building at 806 Main St. early last year. And now, a reader reports, permits are posted in the window and the paneling and windows in a single column have been removed.
Underneath the white-marble and brown-glass slipcover — installed about 30 years ago — is a stone, terra cotta, and brick building built about 100 years ago and expanded 10 stories skyward in the 1920s. The building is directly across the street from the brand-new BG Group Place.
- Upcoming Projects [Pearl Real Estate]
- Previously on Swamplot: Slipping a Hotel Under the Slipcover: Plans from the New Owner of 806 Main
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Ah, I thought we had something new. That piece was stripped quite some time ago, maybe 4-6 weeks?
it was at least 5 months ago when i started my job downtown.
Thadvertisingis appears to be the old Lumberman’s bank bui9lding buji9lt by S. F. Carter. Later and for many years it was Second National Bank. On the corner was a large four way clock advertisng a jewelry store. It was commonplace to ask someone to “meet me under the clock”.