Lone Star Gas

Built over a fifty-five-year period beginning in 1924, Lone Star Gas Lofts was a four building complex on a full city block with two of the buildings being art deco masterpieces designed by Lang & Witchell, one of Dallas’ great architects of the first half of the 20th century. The City of Dallas requested and received a deed to the property in 2005 when Atmos Energy relocated out of the CBD and the City in turn conveyed it to one of America’s largest developers, Forest City Enterprises, on the condition that the block be converted and renovated in a short period of time without further City subsidy. Unable to make the numbers work for its own portfolio, Forest City conveyed the property to Hamilton and it was thereafter completed at a cost of $46 million as a mixed use project with 230 loft apartments, 13,000 SF of retail, and 277 structured parking stalls.