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Times Ten Cellars Buys Cultural District Asset

FORT WORTH-The winery's partners buy a 50-year-old former pecan shelling factory, now used for offices, to convert it into a wine bar, tasting room and retail space.

By Connie Gore | Updated on August 28, 2008

FORT WORTH-Getting a seat at the heart of the city’s Cultural District, Times Ten Cellars of Dallas has just acquired a 50-year-old former pecan shelling factory for its second location in the metroplex. The all-in cost will be $3.5 million to $4.5 million for acquisition and conversion of existing office space into a wine bar, tasting room and events space.

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.

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