Owner Of Dallas Apartment Building Sues Future Neighbor
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DALLAS (CBS11) - Stephanie Thurman moved onto Dallas' downtown Main Street artery of residential activity last November.
Directly across two lanes of traffic sits Neiman-Marcus. Her trio of windows of her fifth floor loft inside the historic Wilson Apartment building offers a view of the downtown skyline to the west.
"I love it. As soon as I saw this view, that was it", she described in her reason for leading the apartment. But
Thurman's view is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by her building's owner, Forest City Enterprises. "The City of Dallas invested in the Wilson," senior Vice President Jim Truitt said Wednesday.
Truitt's company filed suit against Headington Realty and Capital LLC, the owners of The Joule Hotel, and developers of planned retail boutique Forty Five Ten. The boutique will move next to the Wilson Building in 2016, but instead of a three-story building, the lawsuit claims a five-story structure will be an unreasonable nuisance for Wilson tenants like Thurman.
"There's no way I can live in an apartment with no windows, and if they build higher than expected, this unit will be completely dark", Thurman says.
William Brewer, attorney representing the Headington Realty firm issued a statement Wednesday saying,
"Our client believes the lawsuit grossly mischaracterizes the facts related to this project".
Brewer said the retail project has widespread community support.
Tenant Thurman says she too would love to see Forty Five Ten on Main Street, but she's afraid the planned development will block the view she so cherishes right now.
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