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Mandarin Oriental Doesn't Do Dallas?

March 14, 2008 at 11:20 AM | 0 Comments

A Mandarin Oriental hotel is set to open sometime in 2010 in Dallas in a towering 43-story skyscraper in Victory Park (just across the street from the W Dallas. Or it was set to open.

The Dallas Morning News has been following the construction closely and recently there have been some significant scaling back of the work. Two construction cranes were taken down and a planned parking garage is almost finished but at a much smaller sized than expected.

And most tellingly:

Workmen painted over colorful advertisements for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, which were on the fence at Olive Street and Victory Avenue.

The Victory Park Internet site says that the project will open in 2010. And a spokeswoman in Mandarin Oriental's New York office said the same thing. But she acknowledged that the opening date of the hotel is up to the developers and "subject to change."

On the MO's website for hotels under development, Dallas is indeed listed for 2010. However, work needs to start now if that hotel is going to open in time. We hate to say it, but with the markets in bad shape, this kind of news might get more and more common.