Frisco | May 2023

DEVELOPMENT

OPENING UP OMNI PGA The land where Omni PGA Frisco Resort now stands was once nothing more than a “Field of Dreams” area ve years ago, Gov. Greg Abbott said at the grand opening. 2018: early discussions about the resort May 4, 2021: Omni PGA Frisco celebrates groundbreaking. Feb. 11, 2022: project reaches halfway point and topping out of hotel building. August 22, 2022: PGA Frisco Headquarters opens. March 28, 2023: resort grand opening date announced for May 2. May 2, 2023: Omni PGA Frisco celebrates grand opening.

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OFFERING LUXURY Approximately 30,000 rooms have already been booked for guests through the end of the year. The development sits on more than 60 acres of land on the larger PGA campus, bringing golfers and non- golfers alike a specialized experience.

State, city and Omni PGA Frisco Resort ocials cut the ribbon to the new Omni PGA Frisco Resort during a ceremony May 2.

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Omni PGA to oer resort accommodations, golf Omni ocials, state and city lead- ers, and hundreds of guests cheered as the doors to the Omni PGA Frisco Resort opened for the rst time at a enjoying the restaurants and enjoying the bars, putting on The Dance Floor, doing the par three course which we call The Swing,” Blake said. “It’s just going to be a beehive of activity that’s unlike anything else that exists at a common hotel or resort.” BY ALEX REECE

500 guest rooms

4 pools

5 retail shops

May 2 ribbon cutting ceremony. “I do a lot of these events,” Gov. Greg Abbott said. “But it seems, as [Mayor Je Cheney] knows, that I may be doing more of these in Frisco than any other place in the state of Texas.” Early discussions for the resort date back to 2018, said TRT Holdings President Blake Rowling. TRT Hold- ings is the parent company of Omni. “Construction on the golf course started 1,362 days ago…and now today, we’re going to open this won- derful resort,” said Je Smith, Omni PGA Frisco Resort’s vice president. The $520 million development cov- ers 60 acres of land on the overall PGA campus and has many amenities to oer its guests, said Kurt Alexander, president of Omni Hotels and Resorts. Besides simply having a place to stay, guests will be able to enjoy spa treatments, shopping, bars, restau- rants and golf activities. “I think on a day like today, we’re gonna have 1,500 people over there

Another addition to the experience at Omni PGA is the “historic views” of the sprawling golf courses visible from the resort and its ranch houses, 10 small cabins available for guests to stay in instead of a room, Cheney said. “The experiences and the inspira- tion behind this resort are all rooted in authentic stories and have an intentional nod to the extraordinary energy and spirit that exists in Texas,” Alexander said. Although it has just opened, Omni PGA plans to make a lasting impact on the residents of Frisco as well as its visitors, Cheney said. Not only were 508 of the more than 1,000 resort employees hired directly from a University of North Texas Frisco campus hiring event, 300 golfers from Frisco ISD will be invited to train at PGA annually. “If we’re not wearing state titles every year, we got a problem,”

10 luxury four- bedroom ranch houses

127,000 square feet of meeting space

13 food and beverage outlets

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Omni PGA Frisco Resort 4341 PGA Parkway, Frisco 469-305-4500 www.omnihotels.com Reservations can be made online or by phone.

Omni PGA Frisco Resort has several bars and restaurants on site.

Cheney said jokingly. In the time since the resort was rst announced, the project had died and been reborn many times until it was nally built and nished, Smith said. “On behalf of our city council, everyone who leaned in to make this a project reality…the residents of Frisco that are going to enjoy this project for generations, let me be the rst to say join me in giving them a warm Frisco welcome,” Cheney said.

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