Posted March 24, 200421 yr Company in talks to build hotel, indoor water park By Erica Solvig The Cincinnati Enquirer A Wisconsin-based resort company is negotiating with Paramount's Kings Island to build an estimated $60 million hotel and indoor water park on the theme park's campground. While details are not final, the Great Lakes Companies Inc.'s Great Wolf Lodge Family Resort is likely to include a 300-room hotel, a conference center for up to 1,200 people and a year-round, indoor water park covering about 90,000 square feet. The water park would be almost three times the size of the one at the company's Great Bear Lodge in Sandusky, spokesman Eric Lund said. Like its other resorts, Great Wolf would have a woodland lodge theme that includes log walls and a vaulted-ceiling lobby area with a stone fireplace. Read full article here: http://www.cincinnati.com/
March 31, 200421 yr OUTSTANDING. I am also happy to see Deerfield continue to get snubbed. Deerfield needs to be absorbed in Mason. Deerfield is a joke township that is scattered around Mason, in other words - Deerfield Township as a whole does not connect. It is scattered pieces of acreage to the north, south, east and west. This would also help my property value being a Mason homeowner as the area grows to be a resort destination. It is a shame that the NCAA Hall of Fame moved from Kings Island to South Bend. That would have been another cool attraction in the area.
October 16, 200420 yr Mason City Council Monday night rescheduled a public hearing to Nov. 22 to rezone 46.7 acres and a concept PUD for the Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water park proposed for Paramount Kings Island’s campground. Mayor Pete Beck said developers on the project were not ready to make a presentation to council. The proposed development would include a 401-room hotel, a 60,000-square-foot conference center and a 74,000-square-foot indoor water park.
November 30, 200420 yr I've heard this project is not going to happen. I was talking to a friend of mine who is in management at PKI and he said pretty much that Paramount and Great Lakes Company were not able to reach an agreement on profit sharing. He did say, however, that Viacom would like to look into ways to produce revenue at PKI year round. It looks like this will mean a return of Winterfest (probably next year) and possibly some development by Viacom Comumer Products group. The development by Viacom is probably a little ways off, but may include something like a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant or a Spongebob Squarepants hotel.
November 30, 200420 yr studies revealed that about a third of the population in the United States is located within a five-mile drive of Mason. :?
November 30, 200420 yr It is before Mason City Council right now. I hope it happens. It would only add to the draw of the region as a tourist destination.
November 30, 200420 yr studies revealed that about a third of the population in the United States is located within a five-mile drive of Mason. :? LMAO!
January 17, 200520 yr Mason welcomes new resort Year-round attraction to be ready in '06 By Erica Solvig Enquirer staff writer Warren County's nearly $600 million tourism industry is on track to get its first major year-round attraction. The Great Wolf Lodge - with a 401-suite hotel, 74,000-square-foot indoor water park and 60,000-square-foot conference center - is to start being built this summer at Paramount's Kings Island campgrounds. City Council approved the proposal Monday night, adding that final road improvement and traffic details will be worked out later. The outdoor-themed resort, expected to open in late 2006, is an $80 million investment that could generate "significant" revenue from sales and hotel taxes, according to Great Wolf project manager Peter Tomai. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050112/NEWS01/501120395/1056
January 18, 200520 yr I remember a while back there was talk of an indoor skiing area, can't remember if it was Wilmington or Mason. Anybody remember hearing about that?
January 20, 200520 yr Good to hear this is finally happenening. This is good news for tourism although it would make for "3" water parks in walking distance. I wonder who will suffer in the summer?
January 20, 200520 yr No one. The indoor waterpark probably won't be used much in the summer, regardless. It'll still be the Beach and Boomerang Bay for the summer and the Great Wolf in the winter. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 27, 200520 yr Officials see impact from Great Wolf facility Beach administrator not concerned over water park attraction Thursday, January 20, 2005 Some business owners see doom and gloom when competition lands on their door step seeking to take away customers. That’s not the picture officials from The Beach Water Park see. They see the benefits from added competition. For the second time in less than two years, a company has announced they will build a new attraction that could take customers away from The Beach Water Park in Mason. Paramount’s Kings Island opened its revamped water park Crocodile Dundee’s Boomerang Bay in 2004. Read full article here: http://www.pulsejournal.com/business/content/business/stories/2005/01/20/pj0120greatwolffolo.html
April 8, 200520 yr Mason gives Great Wolf Lodge project final OK Construction plans, permit approvals next step With the final planned unit development approved for Great Wolf Lodge, the Great Lakes Co. now must present construction plans and work permits before the first shovel goes into the ground. One concern with the project proposed for Kings Island Drive is the possible removal of the light at Wilson Avenue, which was installed about five years ago because it was a high-accident area. Warren County Engineer Neil Tunison said he would be in favor of removing the light for the project if it is made into a right in/right out access to and from Kings Island Drive — and if the Wisconsin-based Great Lakes Co. pays for the improvements. Read full article here: http://www.pulsejournal.com/hp/content/news/stories/2005/04/07/pj0407masonpc.html
April 8, 200520 yr I'm surprised you guys are in favor of it. Is it not contributing to the sprawl? :lol:
April 8, 200520 yr ^ it's another tourist attraction to the Cincinnati metro area. The more draws to the area, the better off Cincinnati is.
April 9, 200520 yr I am for it, it isn't promoting sprawl numb nuts it is promoting tourism in the area. Edale, you were right on point.
May 5, 200520 yr The funniest thing was the news last night: "News 5 has learned...." Oh, really? This thread was started 14 months ago....
June 15, 200520 yr From a blurb in the 6/15/05 Enquirer's "Briefly" section: Council OKs 400-room motel Mason City Council took the final step Monday to allow for construction of a 400-room hotel with a 74,000-square-foot indoor water park in this Warren County community. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050615/NEWS01/506150391/1056/rss02
August 16, 200519 yr Kings Island to break ground on resort center Paramount's Kings Island will break ground Aug. 18 on a $100 million, 450-square-foot resort just north of the main park. Kings Island will develop the resort with Great Wolf Resorts Inc. and will be called the Great Wolf Lodge at Paramount's Kings Island. It will have 401 all-suite guest rooms, a 78,000-square-foot indoor water park, two themed restaurants an arcade and a conference facility. (I assume they mean 450,000 square foot) http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2005/08/15/daily7.html
August 18, 200519 yr Mason lodge breaks ground Great Wolf to open on former Kings Island camping site in 2006 By Jessica Brown Enquirer staff writer Construction will kick off today for a $100 million resort and water park that could attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the region. The Great Wolf Lodge is scheduled to open in late 2006 just north of Paramount's Kings Island. A groundbreaking ceremony is 10 a.m. today. The 450,000-square-foot, outdoor-themed Great Wolf Lodge will include a log-sided resort with 401 guest rooms, an indoor water park, a 100-game arcade, two family restaurants and other features. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050818/NEWS01/508180443/1056
August 18, 200519 yr if thats not cincinnati vernacular...i dont know what is! holy crap! good ole log cabin right in the middle of a hunking parking lot
November 25, 200519 yr Great Wolf Lodge traffic plans worry Kings school board By Richard Wilson The Pulse-Journal; Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Driving to and from Kings High School and Junior High will be more difficult when Great Wolf Lodge opens late next fall. Kings Local School District board members were presented with the proposed changes to the traffic pattern Nov. 21 by Warren County Engineer Neil Tunison. Their concerns were many, including controlling the speed limit and the amount of traffic that will be flowing by the school buildings. Read full article here: http://www.pulsejournal.com/life/content/features/stories/2005/11/22/pj1124kboe.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=5
December 12, 200519 yr Officials mull solutions to Great Wolf traffic County, Mason, Deerfield and Kings all part of planning Wednesday, December 07, 2005 More traffic will come with the opening of Great Wolf Lodge next year — leaving Kings school board members concerned about a proposal to open Columbia Road by the high school and junior high. Warren County Engineer Neil Tunison presented the proposed changes to Warren County commissioners during their work session Dec. 1. Tunison said a new traffic light is to be installed by the city of Mason on Kings Island Drive for Great Wolf Lodge, a 400-room hotel with an indoor water park and conference center. He said the traffic light at Wilson Road and Kings Island Drive is to be removed because it is too close to the new traffic light at Great Wolf Drive. Read full article here: http://www.western-star.com/life/content/features/stories/2005/12/07/ws1208greatwolf.html
May 5, 200619 yr New resort gets ready Great Wolf Lodge next to Paramount's Kings Island is on track to open this fall featuring a 405,000-square-foot lodge, 401 guest rooms, an indoor water park, a 100-game arcade, two family restaurants and 40,000 square feet of convention space. The $100 million project, just north of Kings Island along Kings Island Drive, includes an outdoor theme and a log-sided facade. The project is a joint venture with Kings Island, which has a minority interest and contributed 39 acres that had been its campground for the lodge site. Great Wolf, based in Madison, Wisc., will operate the resort under its company brand and keep majority interest. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060505/BIZ01/605050367/1076/BIZ
June 2, 200619 yr New plan for roads around Great Wolf Thursday, June 01, 2006 By Daniel Wells Columbia Road south of Kings High School and Kings Junior High won’t be one way. Instead, Columbia Road will get speed humps, a three-way stop at Wilson Road, and guardrails along the school property, according to the latest plan Warren County Engineer Neil Tunison presented to county commissioners. Great Wolf Lodge, the 400-room hotel with an indoor water park and conference center under construction in Mason, prompted the changes. Two traffic signals had to be moved for the complex, which opens this fall on Kings Island Drive. Traffic, including the district’s school buses, won’t be able to turn left from Wilson Road onto Kings Island Drive once the changes are complete. Instead, they will use the new Great Wolf Drive next to the hotel. Read full article here: http://www.western-star.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/06/01/ws0601columbiaroad.html
August 11, 200618 yr The wild wolf calls Hey, look at me! BY JESSICA BROWN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Expect unsolicited howling at the Great Wolf Lodge next to Kings Island. Staff members' sporadic wolf calls punctuated a hard-hat tour of the construction site on Thursday. The noise will be one of many quirky offerings of the north woods-themed family resort and indoor water park when it opens in mid-December. And if projections prove accurate, the lodge might have tourism officials here howling with excitement. The Warren County Convention & Visitors Bureau expects the $100 million, 450,000-square-foot lodge to expand the county's tourism season - currently dominated by Kings Island and other summer attractions. Tourism, the county's top industry, brings in about $600 million a year in admission fees, hotel stays and other spending, according to the bureau. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060811/NEWS01/608110397/1077
August 11, 200618 yr <b>About the lodge</b> <i>401 themed hotel rooms. Prices range from <b>$299 to $499</b> a night for regular rooms; suites cost more. A 79,000-square-foot indoor water park, with the region's only water roller coaster. Arcade with 100-plus video games. A 40,000-square-foot conference center and 10,000-square-foot ballroom.</i> http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060811/NEWS01/608110397
August 11, 200618 yr I meant pricing for people who don't stay there. Are you only allowed to use the waterpark if you stay at the hotel? If that is the case, this place will see very little local money.
August 11, 200618 yr most places like this require you to buy a hotel rorom in order to use the facilities. With prices like that...probably won't be able to go there and check it out. Also....i like other people's money better...hopefully they see some other parts of the city as well when they come
August 31, 200618 yr From the 8/30/06 Enquirer: Lodge to get $350,000 back THE ENQUIRER MASON - The Great Wolf Lodge will be reimbursed $350,000 for road improvements for its 450,000-square-foot hotel, conference center and indoor water park in Mason. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060830/NEWS01/608300376/1056
November 22, 200618 yr I drove by it last week and thought it looked like the largest hotel in the region. The exterior is very dominating.
December 9, 200618 yr Lodge gets ready to howl BY JESSICA BROWN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER The buzz has been growing for months – but maybe we should call them howls. After years of planning and 16 months of construction, the Great Wolf Lodge will open the doors of its conference center, lodge and indoor water park Thursday in Mason, next to Paramount’s Kings Island. The $100 million project – nearly as costly as the $110 million National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati – hopes to attract people from hundreds of miles away to splash away the winter doldrums in a resort where rooms will cost $169 to $699 a night. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061209/NEWS01/312090003
January 3, 200718 yr Completed! I went there over Christmas break and it was quite impressive. It should provide much needed higher quality lodging in the northern burbs for such guests as the Tennis stars that play here during the summer. I believe the Mariott off Mason-Montgomery is the only 3 star hotel in the Mason area.
January 3, 200718 yr Completed! I went there over Christmas break and it was quite impressive. Do they only allow hotel guests to use the indoor water park, or can local people purchase day passes?
January 3, 200718 yr I wondered the same thing and yes you need a room in order to use the water park. 4 passes are included per room and each additional pass is $15. If you know someone staying there, they can get you into the park for an additional $15. Rooms are as low as $149 but average $299 to $499 for their rooms if you are a walk in.
January 3, 200718 yr I wondered the same thing and yes you need a room in order to use the water park. 4 passes are included per room and each additional pass is $15. If you know someone staying there, they can get you into the park for an additional $15. That's a bummer. The indoor water park sounds cool, but I can't justify spending around $300 for a hotel room when I have a place to live that is about 45 minutes away. For that type of rate I would rather stay in downtown Chicago or something.
March 7, 200718 yr Great Wolf ailments baffle officials BY JENNIFER BAKER | [email protected]; March 7, 2007 Officials at Great Wolf Lodge are working with state and county health officials to figure out why dozens of adults and children have experienced rashes, coughing and other minor respiratory or flu-like symptoms after visiting the new indoor water park. Officials with the Warren County Health Department and Ohio Department of Health said Wednesday they have received five or six complaints from groups or families since the beginning of the year. No one has been hospitalized but one child was taken to an emergency room and some have received medical treatment on the scene from paramedics or from their family doctors after leaving, said Dan Collins, director of environmental health for the Warren County Health Department. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/NEWS01/303070035
March 7, 200718 yr I wondered the same thing and yes you need a room in order to use the water park. 4 passes are included per room and each additional pass is $15. If you know someone staying there, they can get you into the park for an additional $15. That's a bummer. The indoor water park sounds cool, but I can't justify spending around $300 for a hotel room when I have a place to live that is about 45 minutes away. For that type of rate I would rather stay in downtown Chicago or something. The business model is geared toward large family groups. Pretty genius really. Pool the costs (NO pun intended) and preserve the family atmosphere, without having to contend the lowly unwashed (pun REALLY not intended). Great Wolf ailments baffle officials BY JENNIFER BAKER | [email protected] March 7, 2007 ... "The Great Wolf Lodge left us howling mad," Dave Farrar said. "Everybody got sick. A lot of people we talked to that were staying there said their kids had rashes in the water and at night, their lungs were just filled with mucus and coughing. We had lifeguards telling us not to spend more than an hour in the enclosed pool but it was random. Nothing was posted." http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/NEWS01/303070035 Now THERE'S a blurb for the brochure. By the way: enough with the "howling" puns, please.
March 8, 200718 yr Some say water park made them sick Great Wolf, health inspectors haven't found the reason why BY JENNIFER BAKER | [email protected]; March 8, 2007 State and county health officials are trying to figure out why dozens of adults and children have experienced rashes, coughing and other minor respiratory or flu-like symptoms after visiting the new Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park. Great Wolf officials said Wednesday that they are working to solve the problem, and that health department tests of the pools' water showed nothing unusual. Officials with the Warren County Health Department and Ohio Department of Health said they have received five or six complaints from groups or families since the beginning of the year. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070308/NEWS01/703080408/1056/COL02
March 8, 200718 yr I say it's a result of all the urine in the water. Chlorine + Ammonia = HOWLING BAD TIME.
March 9, 200718 yr More complaints filed about Great Wolf BY FEOSHIA HENDERSON | [email protected] March 9, 2007 MASON– At least 60 more families have called the Warren County Health Department complaining of respiratory problems and flu-like symptoms after visiting the Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park. Those calls followed reports earlier this week that dozens of adults and children experienced rashes, coughing and other minor symptoms after visiting the new park. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070309/NEWS01/303090007
March 9, 200718 yr Here is a pic of the inside of the indoor water resort: PHOTO: Great Wolf Lodge CiN Weekly | David Sorcher
March 16, 200718 yr Great Wolf Lodge's problems not unique KEVIN EIGELBACH | CINCINNATI POST March 16, 2007 MASON - Health officials in Warren County hope that an investigation of upper respiratory complaints at the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason can provide answers to similar problems in other indoor water parks. ... Indoor swimming pools and water parks around the country are reporting similar problems, Warren County Health Commissioner Duane Stansbury said. Click on link for article. http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070316/NEWS01/703160351
March 17, 200718 yr Great Wolf issues statement ... http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS01/303150014 That is the most pointless, ass-covering, non-statement I've ever read. I hereafter vow NEVER to patronize Great Wolf Lodge.
March 27, 200718 yr Conditions improve at Great Wolf BY JENNIFER BAKER | [email protected]; March 27, 2007 Health officials say conditions have improved at Great Wolf Lodge. There have not been any new complaints over the past two weekends. Dan Collins, director of environmental health at the Warren County Combined Health District, credited the circulation of fresh air in the water park. "That obviously has improved conditions," he said. But Jennifer Beranek, a spokeswoman for Great Wolf Lodge, said the park always circulates mostly fresh air. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070327/NEWS01/303270019
March 28, 200718 yr I bought my first home in Old Brooklyn in the fall - and would recommend the neighborhood to anyone. Depending on what part of the neighborhood you live in - it can differ. The "parkview" area (where i live) near the metropark is a beautiful stock of brick bungalows built in the late 40's and early 50's. They have lots of character, and are well maintained. On the southern end of the neighborhood, "South HIlls", you have a more colonial stock type of house - also well maintained. There are parts of The "OB" that aren't as well kept b/c they consist of doubles that are rentals. The neighborhood is great though ,and houses will range from $75 - $150K. Cleveland has had a lot of foreclosures, so many of the "for sale" hosue are actually bank owned, and are being offered below market rate - but are in good shape. The 'hood has lots of children (most go to private catholic schools though) and is very stable. When looking though, if you keep in the "44144" zip code of the neighborhood, you have a nicer housing and resident population. The 44109 zip code, in large, is just not as aesthetically pleasing. Good Luck!
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