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Corp.’s master-planned Grand Central Park along South Loop 336. In November, Conroe Mayor Toby Powell said the city had not decided where the convention center would be developed. Most recently, at a Jan. 23 joint Conroe City Council workshop and Conroe Industrial Development Corp. meeting, Garfield Public/Private LLC presented the final report on the hotel and convention center project. According to the report, the project will be located in Grand Central Park and cost $85.2 million to develop. A developer agreement and design- build agreement for the hotel and convention center will be brought to City Council on March 14. FULL STORY BY KELLY SCHAFLER
hotel and convention center. Mike Durham, senior vice president of the Spirit of Texas Bank general counsel, said the bank intends to build a two-story theater on the north- west side of the property. In November, bank officials said the bank’s nonprofit, Spirit of Texas Foundation for the Arts, would launch a fundraiser in January for the theater’s construction, which was said to take approximately 15-18 months to build before opening in 2020. As of press time, the fundraiser had not been launched and officials have not responded for a request for comment. Bass said he also intends to sell approximately 8 acres of the plaza to an experienced hotelier to build a hotel and convention center. At a Nov. 8 Conroe City Council meeting, Houston-area hotelier Jay Patel spoke during the citizens forum about plans for a four-star, 200-room Delta by Marriott hotel at the plaza. However, Patel said the Delta brand is only interested in the site if a con- vention center is also developed. The city has considered a confer- ence center at Johnson Development
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Conroe and help merchants. “We want to revitalize the mer- chants’ land values and offer some- thing that would offer our residents ... something unique,” Bass said. VISION FOR SPIRIT OF TEXAS PLAZA On Oct. 8, Hawes Hill Calderon LLP presented a master plan for Conroe to expand and enhance the downtown area, including adding a large theater,
CONROE The Spirit of Texas Plaza debuted in April 2015 as a bank build- ing with two adjacent office buildings opening in the following years. Now Spirit of Texas Bank CEO Dean Bass is switching his focus to the next big phases of the plaza: the 1,800-seat Yellow Rose Theatre and a full-service hotel and convention center. Bass said the new development projects would attract more people to
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