A historic but long-vacant Dallas office building that has ties to the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is being pitched for a new chapter as a boutique hotel.
Dallas Innovates reports Wildcat Management has unveiled concept plans that would turn the six-story Purse Building into a 100-key boutique hotel with 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The company said the transition into a lodging space “represents a boutique-scale hospitality opportunity rarely found in Tier-1 U.S. markets.”
Dallas-based Merriman Anderson Architects has been hired to create architectural studies for this proposed endeavor, with the goal of creating what Wildcat called a “fully modernized boutique hotel blending historic character with contemporary design.”
Built in 1905 as a warehouse for the Parlin & Orendorff Implement Company, it served for many years as the headquarters of Purse & Company Wholesale Furniture. The brick building was used by the FBI as an investigative command center following the Kennedy assassination at nearby Dealey Plaza. Wildcat acquired the building in 2017 and extensively rehabbed the property.
