Kips Bay's Last Year at 2999 Turtle Creek Anchors the Corridor's Late-Fall Calendar

The Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas returns to 2999 Turtle Creek Blvd. for a third straight season, opening with a preview party on Nov. 13. PaperCity bills it as the show house's "Third and Final Year at Turtle Creek." The building it uses was meant to be a 25-story Mandarin Oriental hotel and condo tower. That plan fell apart, and an empty French Renaissance-style mansion in the middle of the corridor became a three-year stretch of ticketed open houses.

For anyone who lives between Cedar Springs and Highland Park, that history shapes the season. The corridor's late fall now runs through a building whose next use hasn't been announced, next to a hotel restaurant whose executive chef left in August. The rest of the calendar falls into place around the show house's three-week run.

A building that sat between plans

Most people on the corridor know 2999 Turtle Creek as the formal stone house on two acres between Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek and the site of the planned Four Seasons. Its use has changed with each owner:

1. 2004. Developer John Eulich built the 25,000-square-foot French Renaissance-style office building, according to The Dallas Morning News.
2. 2017. An Eulich family company sold it to a Lincoln Property Co. partnership, which considered leasing it as offices while studying a possible high-rise behind it.
3. Late 2019. JMJ Development announced a 25-story tower with 176 Mandarin Oriental hotel rooms and suites and 100 branded residences. WFAA reported that it was expected to open in 2022.
4. 2020 to 2023. The project entity defaulted on a $32.5 million loan, and the secured lender, HNGH Turtle Creek LLC, won control of the site in bankruptcy court, WFAA reported. A federal judge approved a settlement in the ownership dispute in 2023.
5. 2024 to 2026. Kips Bay moved in. In July 2025, PaperCity said HN Capital Partners acquired the property in 2021 and was "still in the planning phase for its future use."

HN Capital Partners also owns Rosewood Mansion next door. Lending the house to a charity design event kept a stalled site open to the public. In 2025, founder Vipin Nambiar told PaperCity the show house was "another opportunity for us to showcase the fast growing design and luxury industry in Dallas." No announcement since then has said what comes after this year's run.

How to see it before the doors close

This is the seventh Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas overall, and a new group of designers will redo the full 25,000 square feet. Here are the details from The Dallas Morning News fall home-tour roundup:

• Preview party: Friday, Nov. 13, 4 to 8 p.m., tickets from $500
• General admission: Saturday, Nov. 14, through Sunday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, tickets from $50
• Closed: Thanksgiving Day
• Who benefits: the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, Dwell with Dignity and the Crystal Charity Ball
• Planning page: Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas

PaperCity counts 21 designers in this year's lineup. North Texas firms include Amy Switzer Design, Bobbitt and Company Interior Design, Fonde Interiors, Peters Cates Design, Coco & Dash, Nuance Interiors, Dana Wiseman Design, Kymberlyn Lacy Interiors, Layered Dimensions Interior Design and Platinum Gym Design.

Timing matters. The 2025 show house ran for two weeks after its Nov. 7 public opening. This year's general admission runs a little over three weeks and crosses Thanksgiving. Neighbors who can walk over have more choice of days than in either earlier year, and this is the last chance to see the inside of the building in this form. The property has 6,000 square feet of underground parking, which matters on a block where curb space is scarce.

The rest of the season, set around that run

With the show house open daily from mid-November into December, the corridor's other fall dates fall on either side of it or overlap it. The Turtle Creek Association's Tour of Homes was Oct. 4, so these are the dates still ahead:

Nov. 21 and 22 is the busiest weekend. The arts festival fills Reverchon Park with up to 100 painters, photographers, sculptors, glass blowers, jewelers and other makers. It adds artist demonstrations, live acoustic music and a children's play area, and it runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The show house is open both days, a short trip down Turtle Creek Boulevard. Anyone who wants an easier visit to either one can pick a weekday for Kips Bay.

The festival's own site describes its fall edition as an October event, but the 2026 dates are listed as Nov. 21 to 22. Anyone expecting an October date should note the change. Holiday on the Trail on Dec. 2 comes four days before the show house closes, which puts the corridor's two December events in the same week.

Next door, other pieces are also changing

The house at 2999 isn't the only part of this stretch between plans. Its neighbors are changing too, and that adds to what's unusual about this season.

The Mansion Restaurant. Executive chef Charles Olalia left Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek to become culinary director for Katz Bros Hospitality, CraveDFW reported in August. He now oversees Beverley's, Clifton Club, Green Point Seafood & Oyster Bar and Claremont. D Magazine's September report identifies him as the Mansion's most recent executive chef. The restaurant's posted dinner menu still lists his lobster-and-shrimp lumpia and calamansi mignonette. The Dallas Business Journal reported earlier this year that HN Capital was refreshing the restaurant's decor. That puts a kitchen in transition and a mansion between uses side by side under one owner.

The planned Four Seasons. On the other side of 2999, Carpenter & Company is behind the Four Seasons Hotel & Residences planned for 3001 Turtle Creek Blvd. The state filing for the project records 118 condominiums. If it gets built, the show house will sit between two luxury hotels.

Turtle Creek Park's East Parcel. On Aug. 1, the Conservancy at Turtle Creek Park announced a National Fitness Court Studio with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas for the park's East Parcel beside the Katy Trail. The Conservancy calls it the first publicly accessible National Fitness Court Studio in Dallas. The plan pairs bodyweight stations for strength, cardio, balance and core work with Infinity Golf, an interactive practice area. A custom History Wall will tell the park's century-plus story. The announcement gives no groundbreaking or opening date, so treat it as a plan for now.

Further up the trail, Friends of the Katy Trail lists improvements to the north end from Knox to Harvard and a new Fairmount Trail entrance. Both are scheduled for design in 2026 and construction in 2027. Neither will change trail access this fall.

If you live on the corridor and are curious how changes like these on your block might affect your own building or home, Anthony Cedano is glad to talk it through. Request a complimentary market consultation, and we can look at what's coming to Turtle Creek next and what it may mean for your property.