Dallas Morning News: Judge Dismisses Claim that Downtown's Forty Five Ten will "Entomb" Next-Door Wilson Building

January 19, 2016 — The Dallas Morning News (DMN) reports that Judge Martin Hoffman has dismissed most of Forest City's lawsuit against Brewer client Headington Realty and Capital LLC. The suit had claimed that billionaire Tim Headington's plans to build a five-story luxury retailer on Main Street in downtown Dallas would harm the historic Wilson building, located next door. 

According to the report, Forest City had wanted Headington to keep the retail shop, Forty Five Ten, at least 20 feet from the Wilson Building. 

Headington's attorney, Bill Brewer, told the DMN the lawsuit was a "desperate attempt to disparage Headington and to extract value to which Forest City is not entitled." 

"We always believed this would be the outcome," Brewer said. "It was expected, and we're grateful for a system that gives us good judges who are able to get a hold of a problem and wrestle it to the ground." 

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Dallas Business Journal: Headington Cos. Fires Back at Forest City

July 24, 2015 — The Dallas Business Journal (DBJ) reports on a real estate dispute between an affiliate of Forest City and Brewer client Headington Realty and Capital LLC. 

On July 8, the Forest City affiliate filed suit against billionaire Tim Headington's companies claiming that Headington's plan to develop a five-story boutique shop on Main Street in downtown Dallas would harm a residential building next door — blocking the windows in several units.  

In the face of the lawsuit, the report states, Headington has "fired back with a strongly worded letter through his attorney William 'Bill' Brewer III."

The letter asks Forest City to immediately dismiss its suit with prejudice "because it is groundless and brought in bad faith." 

"The claims they articulated are so grossly lacking in any legal merit, you have to wonder why it was done," Brewer told the DBJ. "In Texas, you are allowed to develop your property and utilize it to its best effect. It is particularly annoying here, given the present owner of the property frankly is not only a newcomer to Dallas, in a sense, but stood silently by when the property was up for sale."

"They had an opportunity to buy it, restrict it in some way and put it back on the market, but they didn't do that," Brewer said. 

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