Every hotel brand has a spec book. Every mixed-use program has competing demands. Retail wants visibility. Residential wants quiet. Parking wants efficiency. The hotel brand wants exact adherence to a finish palette that was designed in a rendering — not on a jobsite.
The problem is coordination. Not construction. Most contractors can hang drywall and pour concrete. But managing the intersection of multiple owners, multiple program types, and multiple finish tolerances — simultaneously, inside a single structural envelope — that’s where projects fall apart.
Virgin Hotel Dallas won an ENR Award of Merit. Knox Street — a $619M joint venture with Balfour Beatty — has a 29-level hotel/condo tower with 46 custom condos built to 1/16-inch tolerance. Cambria Downtown Houston turned a 1931 Art Deco tower into a modern hotel without losing the building.
This is complexity at the finish level. And finish-level complexity demands people who stay.
$619M
Knox Street JV
268
Virgin Hotel Rooms
46
Custom Condos at 1/16" Tolerance
21 yrs
Senior PM Tenure
A Marriott has specific millwork profiles. A Virgin Hotel has a specific material palette. A Cambria has an identity system that runs from the lobby to the bathroom hardware. None of them care about your construction challenges. The spec is the spec.
Executing those standards across 140 rooms — or 268 — requires a team that treats the brand book as law. The QC challenge isn’t whether the work is “good.” It’s whether it matches, unit by unit, floor by floor, without drift.
At Knox Street, that challenge multiplies by 46. Forty-six individually customized condos. Buyer-selected finishes. 1/16-inch tolerance. Brian Wileman — 21 years at ANDRES, employee-owner — is the Senior PM managing it.
When a scheme system error caused the wrong material to land in a unit, the entire finish package got torn out and redone. Not because the installation was poor. Because the documentation was wrong, and the buyer paid for something specific.
That level of accountability doesn’t come from a process manual. It comes from a PM who’s been at the same company for 21 years and treats every unit like his name is on the building.
Through the ESOP, it is.
Here’s what Knox Street actually looks like:
5 levels of below-grade parking (with support kitchens and staff offices) 10-level Class AA office building 28-level multifamily tower — 186 units 29-level hotel/condo tower — 140 hotel rooms, 46 condos Active urban retail corridor where restaurants and shops run throughout construction
Managing this isn’t just construction management. It’s logistics management. Crane picks. Concrete pours. Material deliveries. Trade sequencing around a neighborhood that doesn’t stop because you’re building. Restricted delivery hours. Tower crane placement that accounts for adjacent structures. And sustained friction with neighbors and city agencies that lasts the life of the project.
Brian’s approach: absorb it. Manage it personally when it escalates. Pick up the phone. Not RFIs and waiting.
Knox Street is a joint venture with Balfour Beatty — one of the largest construction firms in the world. Balfour holds the prime contract. ANDRES manages all finishes except Front of House amenity areas.
Think about that for a second. Balfour Beatty had every option in Texas. They chose ANDRES.
Not because we were local. Because they needed a partner with trade relationships, regulatory knowledge, and site-specific execution capability to deliver at their standards. National firms entering Texas markets need that. We are that.
The JV also produced something tangible beyond the project: Balfour brought a logistics practice that Brian adopted, saved significant money, and now carries as a permanent tool. When knowledge flows both directions in a JV, both teams get better. That happened here.
The standalone hotel is becoming the exception. Mixed-use — hotel, residential, office, retail in one development — is the default for urban construction in DFW now. Land costs in urban cores demand density. Financing structures demand multiple revenue streams. So everything ends up in one building.
For developers, that creates a coordination problem. Multiple program types. Multiple brand standards. Multiple permitting tracks. Multiple stakeholders. One construction team.
For contractors, it’s a capability test. Can you deliver hotel-quality finishes in the same building where you’re managing multifamily unit turnover and office core-and-shell? Can you run below-grade parking construction on an active urban street while keeping neighbors from losing their minds for three years?
Knox Street, Virgin Hotel, and the Cambria projects aren’t claims about our capability. They’re the evidence.
Portfolio
Virgin Hotel Dallas
Dallas, TX
268 rooms. ENR Texas & Louisiana Award of Merit (2020). Ground-up hotel for one of the most design-conscious brands in the market. The Virgin brand standard leaves zero room for interpretation. The finished product earned national recognition.
Knox Street
Dallas, TX
$619M joint venture with Balfour Beatty. 29-level hotel/condo tower (140 luxury hotel rooms + 46 custom condos), 28-level multifamily tower (186 units), 10-level Class AA office, 5 levels of below-grade parking. Active urban retail corridor. 46 custom condos at 1/16-inch finish tolerance. Balfour Beatty chose ANDRES as their Texas partner.
Cambria Downtown Houston
Houston, TX
Adaptive reuse of the Tower Petroleum Building — a 23-story 1931 Art Deco structure in the Harwood Historic District. AGC Outstanding Historic Restoration Award. Preservation Houston Good Brick Award. The Art Deco style stayed. The interior became a modern hotel.
Cambria Hotel
Dallas, TX
Modified from the existing Petroleum Building. 23 stories, originally built in 1931. Art Deco exterior preserved with modernized interiors for the Cambria brand.
Aloft Hotel (Santa Fe Building)
Dallas, TX
Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ first Dallas Aloft. Former 8-story Santa Fe Railway building vacant for over a decade. 193 rooms. Adaptive reuse with structural challenges including column sag and unconventional slab correction.
Canyon Ranch Spa
Luxury spa construction at the intersection of hospitality finishes and wellness-specific program requirements.
Hilton Anatole Renovation
Dallas, TX
One of Dallas’s largest convention hotels. Maintaining guest experience while actively building inside an occupied property.
Marriott Hotel Uptown
Dallas, TX
Hotel construction in one of Dallas’s most active mixed-use corridors.
La Playa Beach Hotel & Conference Center
Naples, FL
Beachfront hotel and conference center renovation. Hospitality delivery outside the Texas market when the project called for it.
People Also Ask
How does ANDRES handle hotel brand standard compliance?
Through QC processes built into the project management structure — not bolted on after. Hotel brands provide detailed spec books covering every finish surface, fixture, and material. We treat those as non-negotiable. At Knox Street, we put a dedicated QC position on the job specifically for finish verification — walking each of the 46 condos with the approved spec sheet, confirming correct materials installed correctly. That kind of granularity prevents documentation-driven errors, which are the most common source of rework in hospitality.
What was the Knox Street joint venture with Balfour Beatty?
Balfour Beatty — one of the world’s largest construction firms — selected ANDRES as their Texas finishing partner for the $619M Knox Street development. Balfour holds the prime contract and managed structure and shell. ANDRES manages all interior finishes except Front of House amenity areas. The JV structure reflects Balfour’s confidence in our ability to execute at their standards with the Texas trade relationships and regulatory knowledge they needed.
Can ANDRES build both hotels and residential in the same project?
Knox Street is the live proof. A 29-level hotel/condo tower and a 28-level multifamily tower, managed simultaneously. Hotel rooms follow brand standards. Condos follow individual buyer selections. Multifamily units follow a different spec entirely. Three finish programs, one team, one schedule.
How does ANDRES manage construction on active urban streets?
Direct, sustained coordination with neighbors, city agencies, and the trade teams. At Knox Street, construction runs on one of Dallas’s most active retail and restaurant corridors. Restricted delivery hours. Carefully planned crane placements. Constant management of neighbor concerns over the life of the project. There’s no shortcut. It takes a PM who absorbs the friction, manages it personally, and picks up the phone when things go sideways.
What’s the difference between a hospitality renovation and an adaptive reuse hotel project?
Renovation updates a hotel within its existing use — new finishes, new systems, modernized rooms. Adaptive reuse converts a building from a different use — office, warehouse, railway depot — into a hotel. Different animals entirely. Renovation means maintaining guest operations during construction. Adaptive reuse means solving structural, mechanical, and code challenges the original building was never designed for. ANDRES has done both: Hilton Anatole (renovation) and Cambria/Aloft (adaptive reuse).
Your hotel brand has standards. Your mixed-use program has competing demands.
We’ve managed both — at the same time, in the same building. The conversation starts with the team. You meet the PM who will manage your project. That PM has been here for decades. And they’ll be here for the next one.