Growing Grapevine

'Growing Grapevine' returns with our biggest season yet! We're going way back to the early years of Grapevine to explore how and why our Authentic Historic Downtown came to be, then talking to the folks shaping developments and thriving in storefronts there today.  We've packed everything from the Cotton Belt Rail line to your favorite restaurant on Main Street into twelve half-hour(ish) episodes,...

Our yearlong exploration of Grapevine Mills ends with a festive excursion on one of the City's most well-known attractions: the North Pole Express. But this themed train ride is more than one of 1,400 events in the Christmas Capital of Texas. It's also an important resource for one very important organization working to welcome new residents and economically disadvantaged families to Grapevine.

Our ongoing tour of Grapevine Mills dives deeper into the shopping center than ever before, bypassing iconic destination retail and entertainment offerings to drop in on an area few guests ever see: a fully functional police substation right on site! Hear from officers who patrol and train on the grounds (and the management who are thrilled to host them, even if a few TVs are harmed in the process...

The next stop on our grand tour of Grapevine Mills comes with polished wood floors and family entertainment aplenty! Join us as we examine the public-private partnership that turned a JC Penny Outlet into a service for residents all across Dallas-Fort Worth. Fieldhouse USA solved a few problems for Grapevine's award-winning Parks and Recreation Department... including one massive expansion you'll...

Grapevine, Texas is synonymous with dining, retail, and entertainment. But one of the City's fastest-growing companies is actually an unlikely tech startup: Sera Systems, a software developer serving technicians in the plumbing and HVAC space, is a multi-million-dollar publicly traded company with an unassuming headquarters just off Main Street. In this episode, our tour of Grapevine Mills pauses...

Our tour of Grapevine Mills takes an exciting turn down Main Street, thanks to the startup-friendly culture at Simon and in the City of Grapevine! In this month's episode, you'll meet Rachel Townsend-Cerny, owner and gallerist at RTown Art Gallery. A Grapevine native and the product of GCISD schools, Rachel is determined to grow the arts in her hometown. And she's not alone. Katy Lemieux and Valer...

There's no shortage of cutting-edge entertainment users in Grapevine, but one batch predates the majority of well-known concepts. The Merlin Entertainments cluster - which consists of a LEGOland Discovery Center, a SeaLife Aquarium, and the first American Peppa Pig World of Play - draws hundreds of thousands of people into the City every year. In fact, their parent company is second only to Disney...

Before Meow Wolf Grapevine was public knowledge, it was Project Black Corinth. After doing our best to explain Grapevine's newest destination attraction in last month's episode, the Economic Development team wanted to dive into the most important part of the project: its impact. Hear from the Creative Directors behind The Real Unreal and the team that recruited one of the nation's fastest-growing...

This month, our tour of Grapevine Mills detours all the way to Santa Fe to answer a question we've been hearing a lot lately: What is Meow Wolf? There's no simple answer when it comes to Grapevine's newest destination attraction, so we pulled out all the stops to give you an insider experience at the House of Eternal Return. Audio elements and episode image courtesy of Meow Wolf; original photogra...

Our tour of Grapevine Mills takes an unexpected detour to explore one of the most ambitious proposals ever entertained in this community: the establishment of a Fortune 100 International Headquarters in the heart of the City. What would have happened if Grapevine was selected to be the home of Amazon HQ2? Could something similar happen in the future? Are these projects worth pursuing in communitie...

After opening to rave reviews, Grapevine Mills ran into tough headwinds in the mid-2000s. A dated aesthetic, less-than-perfect tenants, and a Great Recession should have spelled doom for the City's landmark shopping center... instead, Grapevine Mills now stands against the popular opinion that malls and physical retail are dying. Today, we're exploring the strategy that outperforms 99% of regional...

We travel back in time to witness the wildly successful launch of Grapevine Mills, complete with skate parks, theme restaurants, and an obscure little band called Hanson. Then ask... how long can the 90s aesthetic hold up? Grand opening footage and audio courtesy of KTVT, CBS 11 News.

Your tour of Grapevine Mills begins with an unusual stop: a video game arena from the United Kingdom. But BELONG Gaming is more than an interesting tenant at your favorite shopping center. It's a gateway into one of the most pressing questions of our day... how do you prepare the next generation to join a workforce filled with professional gamers, online influencers, and jobs that haven't yet been...

'Growing Grapevine' returns with an in-depth look at the shopping center at the heart of the city. From its arrival in 1997 to an overhaul in the 2010s and an innovative new lineup coming soon, Grapevine Mills is a microcosm of the community... join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour! Audio from Grapevine Mills' grand opening courtesy of KTVT, CBS 11.

In the Season 1 Finale, we sit down with Economic Development Director Larry Holt and a panel of experts to answer one simple, yet essential question... what's next for Grapevine?

For decades, Grapevine was a City defined by tourism and small business. But in the last few years, multiple major corporations have selected this suburban town for National and even Global headquarters. And not always for the reasons you'd expect...

If your City is built around visitor attraction, shouldn't a global pandemic be cataclysmic? Grapevine Chamber of Commerce CEO RaDonna Hessel and City of Grapevine CFO Greg Jordan join our investigation into the depth (and breadth) of business in Grapevine.

In April 2004, the Gaylord Texan – one of Grapevine's most iconic projects – opened to the public. Three years later, Great Wolf Lodge arrived in the City with the largest property the chain has built to date... right across the street from their competitors.

In Grapevine, a Planning and Zoning Commission board made up of seven representatives and two alternates oversees the regulation of development across the entire City. In this episode, we're going back in time to the 1970s and '80s, when Grapevine's 9™️ first concocted their Master Plan.

Travel back in time to a Grapevine with far fewer things to do in this, the first of six episodes exploring Grapevine's growth into a Destination market.

In this special episode, we're taking you back to a tragic Easter Sunday morning in 1934. Together, we'll explore an infamous piece of local history... and one entrepreneur's unique strategy for making the most of it.

The footprint of DFW Airport covers a good portion of Grapevine, making the City an essential part of the North Texas economy. Today, we're sitting down with the airport's Vice President of Commercial Development to learn more about how that came to be and what it means for the region.

Now serving his third consecutive three-year term on the Grapevine City Council, Paul Slectha is both a Grapevine native and a former TEXRail skeptic. Now, he serves on the Board of Directors at Trinity Metro. In this episode, we ask him why he wanted to serve in leadership and what impact the new commuter rail has and will have on the City.

North Texas is one of the nation's fastest-growing metropolitan areas, at or near the top of most economic and population growth lists for the last decade. To get a better sense of where Grapevine fits into that picture, we asked the Fort Worth Regional Chamber's Chris Strayer why companies love Dallas-Fort Worth.

Meet the team that spends thousands of hours turning Historic Main Street into the Christmas Capital of Texas™️