“It’s a 110-year-old building with tremendous charm that we’re restoring and bringing back to life.”
Jeff Blackman
Founder
Bedford Lodging
…on a historic Fort Worth fire station becoming part of the new Nobleman Hotel (fire pole included) via the Dallas Business Journal.
Since 2013, Dallas-based Bedford Lodging has built hotels across the U.S. that look like, well, hotels—including The Hoffman Hotel in Basalt, Colorado, an AC Marriott in Santa Rosa, California, and a Fairfield Inn & Suites in El Paso, among numerous others. But one being built now in Fort Worth is the first to feature a fire pole.
Blackman told the Dallas Business Journal’s Seth Bodine that construction on The Nobleman Hotel is nearly complete, with 153 hotel rooms and a restaurant called The Duchess built around a key feature: Fort Worth’s historic, repurposed 1911 Fire Station No. 5. The fire station’s fire pole and staircase are being repurposed as part of the “heart” of the project, which could provide needed lodging near numerous hospitals in the city’s Medical District.
Read more in the DBJ’s story.
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