BBQ News

New Beeman Hotel near Dallas' Park Cities will have a BBQ restaurant

It also has a pool. Can you see the rubber ducky?

Photo courtesy of Convexity

A hotel on the edge of the Park Cities in Dallas is ready for the spotlight after a top-to-bottom renovation: The Beeman Hotel, previously known as The Magnolia Hotel, has reopened with 297 enhanced guest rooms and suites, new amenities, and a new BBQ restaurant coming soon.

Located at 6070 N. Central Expy., just north of Mockingbird Station, the Beeman is the former Magnolia Hotel Park Cities, which was rebranded and renovated by Convexity Properties in 2019.

Originally, it was a Radisson Inn. It became a Holiday Inn in 2012, then the Magnolia in 2015.

If you were driving down US-75, it was the hotel with the cool weird panels of light. But boo, those are gone.

According to a release, they had a soft opening in June. Now they're saying that all of their new amenities are ready to roll. Except the restaurant which is still, as mentioned, coming soon.

They've spruced up the rooms, upgraded the pool, added a new outdoor area, and created a grab-and-go market.

Led by locally based Studio 11 and Carrell Partners & Yost Architects, the redesign includes clean, tailored lines and an artistic flair such as unexpected uses of color in the rooms, with an accent wall featuring a geometrically muraled wallcovering and rustic elements such as sliding barn doors, which they claim are a nod to Dallas' "humble beginnings."

Other renovated public spaces include the corridors, fitness center, meeting spaces, and the indoor pool, with elements of Dallas' eclectic downtown, industrial Deep Ellum, and what they call the refined sensibility of Park Cities, by mixing saddle leather chairs, metallic accents, and pink pillows and throws.

The pink pillows are obvs the Park Cities refined part.

The indoor pool and outdoor space is located on main floor and now boasts string lights, greenery, golden rubber duckies, and a two-story mural featuring Dallas icons such as the Pegasus.

The property gets its name from John Beeman, one of the pioneering settlers of East Dallas.

As far as the restaurant goes, they do have a name, but not much else: Called Seely's Mill Texas BBQ restaurant, it'll be on the main floor for guests and locals, with a menu inspired by Texas' famed BBQ, including smokers on site.

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Holiday News

American Airlines expects record-setting travel on Thanksgiving 2024

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American Airlines ready for takeoff.

The holidays are looming and American Airlines is ramping up. Over the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend, the Fort Worth-based airline expects to process nearly 8.3 million customers across more than 77,000 flights.

According to a statement from American's COO David Seymour, the airline is having a good fall season and canceled fewer flights than its peers during October.

“Thanks to the hard work of our 130,000 team members, we canceled fewer flights than any of our major competitors this October and beat our own records for on-time departures and arrivals,” Seymour says.

That's surely good news. One hates to rain on their parade, but in June 2024, the only flight I booked this year, my flight was canceled less than 24 hours before take-off. I had made hotel reservations, scheduled a pet sitter, planned events, and arranged for a friend to pick me up at the destination airport. One employee speculated that it may have been "insufficient crew." Their only solution offered was: Feel free to reschedule your flight.

Thanksgiving facts and figures
The travel window runs from November 21 to December 3, and the airline expects to carry more than 500,000 more customers than it did last year.

The most-traveled day will be Sunday, December 1. The second most-traveled day will be Monday, December 2.

The peak of peak: 1,035 mainline and regional aircraft will be enroute at 10:45 am on Sunday, December 1 — the highest number of flights handled at any given time during American’s travel period.

The airline expects to serve more than 6.8 million Biscoff cookies on board from November 21 to December 3.

Travel tips
Download the American Airlines app and check in for your flight, noting added any bags to your trip. This will save you time at the airport.

If traveling internationally, download the Mobile Passport Control app, which can speed up your entry into the U.S. Global Entry members can download the Global Entry app, which allows you to submit your entry and go straight to the officer.

Upon arrival at the airport lobby, scan your mobile boarding pass to print bag tags quickly at a kiosk. If you’re not checking bags, go straight to TSA security with your mobile boarding pass.

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