FORT WORTH-A Dallas-based developer plans to demolish thelandmark Green Oaks Hotel in west Fort Worth and replace it with athree-story office building. Wilcox Capital Partners, a division ofCawley Wilcox Cos., the development company that bought the284-room hotel out of bankruptcy five years ago, is alsoconsidering building a replacement hotel on part of the site.

The Tudor-style hotel, which has hosted a long list ofcelebrities since it opened as the Green Oaks Inn in 1965, willface the wrecking ball in December, In January, Cawley Wilcox willbegin work on a 185,000-sf speculative office building on seven ofthe property's 12 acres. Completion is anticipated for late 2008 orearly 09.

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