Kert Platner, one of three partners in the winery, tells GlobeSt.com that Times Ten's plan is to occupy 8,000 sf and lease the 14,000-sf balance of 1100 Foch St. to retail tenants that would complement the wine bar and the Cultural District. With the deed now in hand, he says the next move is to apply for a state license for the location.

The sellers, Tom Struhs and Elizabeth Falconer, have four months to relocate their commercial real estate and design businesses, according to Platner. In the interim, RKP Design of Dallas will start designing the interior, which will include vaulting the ceilings and exposing original beams to create an environment with character as Times Ten Cellars has in Dallas in a historic US post office building, built in 1945 at 6324 Prospect Ave. in the Lakewood District. If all goes as planned, construction will begin in December or early January and possibly be done for an August 2009 opening, the same month they christened the Dallas winery in 2005.

Roger Chieffalo of Chieffalo Realty in Fort Worth had been scouting the district for Times Ten Cellars for a few months when Struhs and Falconer asked him to sell their long-time office location. They reportedly plan to move their businesses to their nearby Trinity Bluffs development. Chieffalo says the office/warehouse, sitting on a half acre, was on the market less than 60 days when Platner and his partners, Rob Wilson and Chris Lawler, toured it.