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But the Maple Terrace office building stands out as something of a unicorn. In a section of Dallas where more and more super towers and corporate monoliths continue to rise (Goldman Sachs is building a $500 million office campus, and Bank of America is constructing its new 30-story Dallas headquarters nearby), Maple Terrace brings a mere 157,000 square feet of office space, creating a rare boutique building in a land of corporate Goliaths. "Most office buildings today are going after large tenants," Eckel says. "There's sound revenue thinking behind doing fewer deals to fill a building, but there are a lot of small tenants, especially in our urban core, who are looking for a place to do business. This is pretty rare." Having offices designed by architect and designer Lauren Rottet is even more rare, but to make sure Maple Terrace Residences and the boutique office building felt linked, Hines tapped Rottet to do the interiors of both. Rottet says, "The inspiration for the interiors of the new building came from the elegance of the 1920s and old Hollywood glamour combined w i t h s c u l p t u r a l elements of Mission Revival architectural style." The result is a striking green-hued lobby-level bar with a checkered tile floor dubbed Alfred's (after the original building's architect), which serves as a retreat for office workers and residents of the new tower. This reimagined Maple Terrace is marked by little escapes like this, including a secret garden where residents enter through a decorative gate and an art installation in the mailroom that recreates the lyrics of Elvis' "Heartbreak Hotel," with artist Bengisu Bayrak using Presley's handwritten notes for reference. Of course, the more-than-75-year-old live oak tree that towers over the main circular drive of the office building, creating an impromptu green space, is the kind of touch that only time can create. "With a lot of projects, we have to create a story from scratch," Eckel says, his sport coat flapping in the breeze on that eighth-floor terrace. "Here, that story has already been written." Two restaurants in the Maple Terrace building add a new modern tale. Local Tex- Mex legend Michael "Mico" Rodriguez's Doce Mesas is already open in a bright airy spot, and Catch — the buzzy seafood restaurant from Houston's Tilman Fertitta, Mark Birnbaum, and Eugene Remm — is set to open in a sprawling 12,000-square- foot space on Friday, November 8. Catch fits in with Maple Terrace's celebrity past, having drawn Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and other A-Listers to its New York location. A New High-Rise with a Past At The Maple Terrace Residences, 90 percent of the 345 units are equipped with balconies, with monthly rents ranging from $2,400 up to $17,000 for the best of the nine penthouses. Elvis wouldn't recognize those Dallas-of-today prices, but he would be familiar with the distinctive stucco facade on the original apartment building (the one converted into the office building), which Hines preserved. While researching the building, Eckel and his team discovered that more stucco was put into Maple Terrace during its 1920s construction than any other building in the world at the time. While office tenants and their guests get access to that eighth-floor original Maple Terrace, residents of the new tower can zoom up to the 22nd- story Conservatory, a sky lounge with much wider views of the city and pool cabanas that are built into the building. This is a decidedly new Maple Terrace, but it hasn't turned its back on its original namesake across the courtyard. "Maple Avenue was kind of like the Beverly Drive of Dallas at that time," Eckel says. He looks down at the busy and construction-heavy Maple Avenue of Dallas today. There's much gleaming steel, but a little holdover of stucco and priceless history too. Maple Terrace Residences, 3003 Maple Ave., mapleterraceresidences.com. The new lobby of the reimagined original Maple Terrace building brings grand touches. In the 1950s, Maple Terrace's pool scene was legendary, drawing Hollywood celebs. COURTESY HINES COURTESY HINES (Continued from page 46) 48