“A landmark North Texas hotel has been purchased by a group headed by Dallas-Fort Worth investors. The new owners of the 90-year-old Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells west of Fort Worth say they plan to start work immediately to restore the property,” Steve Brown at the Dallas Morning News reports.
Since Pratt on Texas has aired I have reported on several stories in which the famed Baker was to be renovated but friends, it appears this is an authentic deal with people who have the money to get it done and I find it exciting.
Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells
The beginning budget is $65 million to turn the once-grand 14-story Baker into a luxury resort, spa and conference center featuring 157 rooms with a “natural springs-based wellness spa with indoor and outdoor natural springs and more than 22,000 square feet of meeting and event spaces.”
The Baker Hotel long in the tooth, finally closed in 1972 as a ghost of its once glorious self where huge celebrities like Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, The Three Stooges and President Lyndon B. Johnson, came for its mineral waters and five-star service.
The investment group, headed by Laird A. Fairchild, plan to reopen the Baker in 2022 and let’s hope the Texas economy keeps on growing so that nothing will stop this remake of a Texas legend in West Texas’ Mineral Wells.
A Texas legend is to be reborn: The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells
Since Pratt on Texas has aired I have reported on several stories in which the famed Baker was to be renovated but friends, it appears this is an authentic deal with people who have the money to get it done and I find it exciting.
Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells
The beginning budget is $65 million to turn the once-grand 14-story Baker into a luxury resort, spa and conference center featuring 157 rooms with a “natural springs-based wellness spa with indoor and outdoor natural springs and more than 22,000 square feet of meeting and event spaces.”
The Baker Hotel long in the tooth, finally closed in 1972 as a ghost of its once glorious self where huge celebrities like Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, The Three Stooges and President Lyndon B. Johnson, came for its mineral waters and five-star service.
The investment group, headed by Laird A. Fairchild, plan to reopen the Baker in 2022 and let’s hope the Texas economy keeps on growing so that nothing will stop this remake of a Texas legend in West Texas’ Mineral Wells.