Hotel News

Autograph hotel to open on Lake Grapevine will come with private yacht

Autograph Collection Hotel and Residences on Lake Grapevine

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A new hotel is coming to Lake Grapevine in Flower Mound: Called the Autograph Collection Hotel and Residences on Lake Grapevine, it'll open in the Lakeside Village mixed-use development in Flower Mound, where it will break ground in mid-2025.

It'll be a Marriott property developed by Realty Capital, the Dallas-Fort Worth based developer of Lakeside Village in Flower Mound, a 160-acre mixed-use development next to Lake Grapevine that's currently in the final phase of construction, and which will include more than 40 shops and restaurants, offices, entertainment, public amenities, and approximately 2,500 residences.

The final phase consists of single-family Mediterranean-style villas starting at $2 million — that is not a typo — high-rise residences, hotels, a private social club, shops, offices, a wedding chapel, and lakefront restaurants.

The Town of Flower Mound approved a Chapter 380 Incentive Agreement for the hotel and office project called 3301 Sunset Boulevard, a six-story Class AA office building, with a private social club on the second floor and two levels of underground parking.

The hotel will be 12 stories, with 181 guest rooms and suites featuring balconies with lake views, a rooftop pool and terrace, spa, private yacht for guest excursions — that also is not a typo — restaurant and bar, ballrooms, fitness center, lakefront wedding chapel, outdoor music amphitheater, and lakefront restaurants. The hotel will have 21 branded condominium residences on the top three floors.

The hotel and office building will break ground in the second quarter of 2025 and will be connected on the first and second floors to provide access to shared amenities, such as the private social club, spa, hotel bar and restaurant, outdoor pool and terrace, ballroom, and meeting rooms.

Realty Capital is partnering with Coury Hospitality, the largest operator of Autograph Collection Hotels in the U.S., who will operate the hotel.

Realty Capital already has a number of projects under construction in Lakeside Village including:

Lakeside Tower, a 16-story condominium tower was completed in 2021 and is sold out
55 single-family villas, being built by Van Trease Architectural Designs and Realty Capital Residential, are under construction on 3111 Sunset, a 16-story 207-unit multi-family residential tower opening in January 2025.

Realty Capital and Swinerton are also building the two-level underground parking garage that will provide parking for the six lakefront restaurants.

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DFW Airport starts its long-awaited construction of new Terminal F

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DFW Airport Terminal F

After a false pre-pandemic start, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is getting back into the business of building a new terminal: DFW broke ground of the construction on Terminal F – its sixth terminal and the first new construction of an entire terminal at DFW since 2005.

Terminal F has long been in the works but plans to build it got shelved in 2020, when airport officials worried about what effects the pandemic would have on travel. The year 2024 has resolved that dilemma with a resounding "none": Both TSA and American Airlines are predicting record-breaking figures for travel during this holiday season and for the entire year.

The new terminal will have 15 gates, modernized amenities, and a "double-loaded concourse" — meaning that airplanes will be able to line up on both sides of the terminal. (The alternative is linear, where the planes all line up on one side, says the internet.)

“The new Terminal F will expand the airport’s footprint with state-of-the-art facilities that align with our first-in-class customer experience and operation as we support the historic rise in air travel to and from the North Texas region,” says DFW CEO Sean Donohue in a statement.

Terminal F is a $1.6 billion program that will feature a 400,000-square-foot concourse, plus a future-conscious design in which DFW will be able to expand Terminal F with additional gates and other supporting facilities.

The construction joins ongoing expansions at DFW in Terminal A and Terminal C, with the ultimate goal of adding 24 new contact gates to prepare for continued growth.

An expansion of Terminal E is also included in the program that will add more than 100,000 square feet of new check-in, security, and baggage claim facilities dedicated to customers flying to or from Terminal F. Customers using Terminal F will check in at Terminal E and connect between the two gates by using the airport’s Skylink system, which will welcome a new station above Terminal F when the terminal is anticipated to open in 2027.

They're building the terminal using an innovative modular construction technique in which segments are built, then moved to the final terminal site. Compared to traditional construction methods where all activity takes place on the site of the new facility, modular construction increases project efficiency and expedites construction timelines because construction activity can take place simultaneously at two sites. It also moves the construction activity away from the terminal, reducing impact to customers and airlines.

DFW first used the modular construction to rebuild five gates in Terminal C in 2022.

“By utilizing modular construction techniques that we first pioneered with the High-C Gates, we will deliver Terminal F using technology at a scale that’s unique among airport development projects," Donohue said.

The design-build team for the Terminal F concourse and Skylink station is Innovation Next+, a joint venture comprised of Archer Western Construction, Turner Construction Company, Phillips May Corporation, H. J. Russell & Company and CARCON Industries, with PGAL, Gensler and Muller2 as design team members.

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