Here's a couple of other projects for Corpus:
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Developer shares Padre Island plans with residents
April 14, 2006 05:35 PM CDT
PADRE ISLAND - The developer who plans to build a world class resort next to Packery Channel shared some of the plans with residents who live on Padre Island.
The sketches shown to island residents on Thursday represent somewhere between $400 million and $1.3 billion of Padre Island Development. The northern end will be called "The Village at North Padre Island" Complete with a world class hotel, which could stand 10 stories high, along with numerous condos and shops.
On the south end, you'll find "Beach Walk Village" with about 400 beach houses, a small hotel and more stores and restaurants. A boardwalk connects the entire project, but don't expect to find your typical restaurants.
"We think it's much more interesting to have people run them that you know and when you come back next year you remember you visited with them the year before. We very much believe in local content," said Gulf Shores Venture developer Paul Schexnailder.
The developer said a beach free of cars was necessary. Now a petition drive is trying to get the cars back on the beach.
"This resort is not gonna go in, at the quality that we have planned, nor the scale we have planned if the beach does not become pedestrian resort quality," he said. Developers said opposition is not a deal breaker, "I think it's an issue that been alive for a long time in the community and I'm not surprised at it. Everybody has difference of opinion, that's part of where we live, the country we live in, I don't think it's unique to Corpus Christi." What would be unique is the type of resort never before seen here in Corpus Christi.
There's been speculation that a company called Intrawest will manage the resort. While Schexnailder didn't confirm that, he did say anyone interested in the company's track record could check out it's Web site Intrawest.com. The company currently runs resorts in places like Aspen, Colorado, Orlando, Florida and Napa Valley, California.
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BOARDWALK BY THE BAY
CORPUS CHRISTI (Caller.com) – A major amusement park called Boardwalk by the Bay is coming to Shoreline Drive on Corpus Christi Bay. The Corpus Christi City Council selected TRT Holdings to redevelop the dilapidated Municipal Coliseum, and company officials are in ongoing negotiations with the city about the details. The outdated coliseum will likely be razed for parking for the amusement park.
TRT Holdings is owned by multibillionaire Robert Rowling, a former Corpus Christi resident who owns 550 Gold’s Gym health clubs; Waldo’s, a dollar store chain in Mexico; and 40 Omni Hotels.
Preliminary plans call for a carousel, game arcade, bumper cars, go-cart racing, miniature golf, an entertainment venue, rolling chair swing, spinning coaster and boutique retail shops. A controversial 100-foot Ferris wheel is also part of the plan.
TRT has no experience in developing amusement parks, so it has contracted with Minick Associates and William L. Haralson Inc., both of which have experience in the field.
TRT Vice President Michael Smith says the development is part strategy and part hometown loyalty for Robert Rowling. The strategy is to entice tourists to downtown, where TRT owns 22 percent of the surface area of the Downtown Management District including two Omni hotels.
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Here are images of the Cotton Yard project:
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