[vjackson]

11:12 AM CDT on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
By SUZANNE MARTA / The Dallas Morning News
smarta@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...n.a442bb6e.html

Officials for Gaylord Entertainment Co. confirmed Wednesday that they plan to move forward with a $315 million expansion to their Grapevine resort.

Gaylord will add another 500 rooms and 200,000 square feet of meeting space to its massive Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center on Lake Grapevine starting next year.

The long-rumored project would create the largest hotel in Texas when finished in 2010.

Gaylord said Wednesday that it has received approvals for economic incentives from the Grapevine City Council, and it was still waiting for necessary approvals by the Army Corps of Engineers and by its own board of directors.

The project includes a resort pool and other recreational amenities aimed at the hotel’s growing leisure business.

Colin V. Reed, Gaylord’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement that the project would create new jobs, add to the local tax base and help the hotel complex better accommodate demand.

[cjyoung]

11:12 AM CDT on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
By SUZANNE MARTA / The Dallas Morning News
smarta@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...n.a442bb6e.html

Officials for Gaylord Entertainment Co. confirmed Wednesday that they plan to move forward with a $315 million expansion to their Grapevine resort.

Gaylord will add another 500 rooms and 200,000 square feet of meeting space to its massive Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center on Lake Grapevine starting next year.

The long-rumored project would create the largest hotel in Texas when finished in 2010.

Gaylord said Wednesday that it has received approvals for economic incentives from the Grapevine City Council, and it was still waiting for necessary approvals by the Army Corps of Engineers and by its own board of directors.

The project includes a resort pool and other recreational amenities aimed at the hotel’s growing leisure business.

Colin V. Reed, Gaylord’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement that the project would create new jobs, add to the local tax base and help the hotel complex better accommodate demand.

This will be the Super Bowl headquarters hotel.

[safly]

And thus setting itself up for a "PREFERRED SITE" rating for the Texas Gaming Commission approved resort style casinos.

COMING SOON!

[John T Roberts]

Neighbors of the hotel are concerned about the 500 room expansion because of noise. The hotel expansion will include a 12 story, 500 room addition and a pool area, plus enlarging the convention center from 400,000 square feet to 600,000 square feet. The four story parking garage will be expanded to six stories. The neighboring residents are concerned about the lights from the parking garage, noise from the expanded air conditioning systems, and the hotel guests looking down into their yards. The neighbors have also complained about noise from the Glass Cactus nightclub.

[texastrill]

Are the cranes I see at 377 and 170, in N.FW/Roanoke,looking east,the cranes for this project?

[JBB]

No, I think those cranes are for an expansion at the Fidelity campus in Westlake. The Gaylord is quite a distance to the east of there.

There is currently a tower crane just to the south of the Gaylord at the Great Wolf Lodge.

[texastrill]

No, I think those cranes are for an expansion at the Fidelity campus in Westlake. The Gaylord is quite a distance to the east of there.

There is currently a tower crane just to the south of the Gaylord at the Great Wolf Lodge.

Thanks.I thought they were to close to be something in grapevine,not to mention so tall that close to DFW.

[Texas Super]

No, I think those cranes are for an expansion at the Fidelity campus in Westlake. The Gaylord is quite a distance to the east of there.

There is currently a tower crane just to the south of the Gaylord at the Great Wolf Lodge.

There is a huge crane at the Gaylord site and it has been there for a couple of weeks now. The tower crane at the Great Wolf Lodge is almost finished with the GWL expansion. Does anyone know who the General Contractor for the Gaylord Expansion is?

[dustin]

is the proposed sw2ne rail line going anywhere near this resort?

[JBB]

is the proposed sw2ne rail line going anywhere near this resort?

The Grapevine Main station is a few miles away and the DFW North station is even closer. The line will pass within a couple of the hundred yards of Great Wolf.

[safly]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

[redhead]

Hey, flyman, I thought you were boycotting anything to do with Grapevine?

[safly]

As of today I am. I can still hook up a ride to G-Vine, drop some trash in their city's containers, and then ride back home.

I've even considered driving about in the city of Grapevine, use up about 1/2 a tank of gas while polluting their air quality. Then proceed to gas up just outside their city limits.

[JBB]

You do realize the city of Grapevine has nothing to do with the schools, right?

[safly]

You do realize the city of Grapevine has nothing to do with the schools, right?

Sure it does, it has EVERYTHING to do with it. In fact, the city of GRAPEVINE has the authority and ability to NOT ENDORSE the school districts decision and their reasoning. But I wouldn't count on local politicians to DO THE RIGHT THING ALL THE TIME. If I choose not to spend my money over in Grapevine then I am not supporting how they handle their school system and their underlying culture. I am doing some research on the school board members, and if they own or work for certain companies, guess what they will be aded on my list too.

It's a simple gesture and if others follow my lead then great, my point is being made.

Right now, I CHOOSE NOT TO support the city of Grapevine. Just like the school board members of Grapevine HS chose not to support the TRUE purpose and spirit of their Valedictorian title and to that of the sole individual who has OVERACHEIVED in their public school system.

When my friends and business owners over at certain restaurants on Grapevine's Main St. ask me why they have not seen me around there, I'll let them know why.

This is a cultural issue with that of it's school board members. This has nothing to do with race, so far. But the cultural byproduct which led them to decide that "WE CANNOT GIVE HER THE TITLE OF VALEDICTORIAN, even though she graduates this year with the school's highest GPA HONOR" is one that REFLECTS upon the culture and norms that go on over there and with their "system". This young girl helped her school's and her class' overall GPA, which keeps them in a certain performance level that is envious to the state, but she doesn't get what she sets her goals on to get all this time and RIGHTFULLY deserves to have handed to her. Blows my mind here!

So for now, I could care less about this hotel and the town it sits in. A greater and much larger hotel will come about in Texas, only natural in this state.

[JBB]

You sound like an insane person. The school district is completely independent of the city. Do you think they should "ban" the school district?

[safly]

You sound like an insane person. The school district is completely independent of the city. Do you think they should "ban" the school district?

Johnny public can do the banning around here, but the city shoould present a case where they do not APPROVE nor ENDORSE this school board's policy decision. It is obviously soiled with the handprints of lawyers and the school board obviously has no backbone when interpreting their own policy that has no distinct nor definitive remedy or instruction. So how does one expect a student to follow that same policy as well while keeping the spirit of acheivement at GHS?

The school district is mostly comprised of those that live in the city of Grapevine or it's districts boundaries. The school's board members is STRICTLY comprised of those that live in the school's district, which is Grapevine and possibly some other outlying towns. I will not support the commerce (sales revenues, city sales tax revenues) of a city that of which they reside in, or support. Nor will I leave my capital footprint in a city that relies as such, and that it maintains it's property values, which in return funds improvements and other budgetary discretions with the school district at hand. Simple enough for me to understand.

I do the same thing in certain parts of East Texas, if they don't really want my kind or accept my kind, then I won't give them two bits of my hard earned money. In the case of the city Grapevine and GCISD, I am boycotting a prime example of public educational policy-making stupidity and those that interpret such at it's very core.

I may sound like an insane person, but are you insane for hearing me?

[texastrill]

Did anybody else see the crane tipped over?I saw it yesterday,when did it happen?

[JBB]

It's not tipped over. It's just folded up like that when not in use.

[safly]

boycott.