$215M domed ski resort planned for North Texas

[TexasTowelie]

Texas skiers looking to hit the slopes in the coming years could find themselves traveling to a Dallas suburb rather than the mountains of Colorado or New Mexico.

City leaders in Grand Prairie are expected to vote in January on a $215 million plan to build the country's first snow dome.

Grand Alps Resort would offer seven slopes year-round, a snowboard course and a Hard Rock Hotel. The complex would cover about 60 acres.

Sherman Thurston, president of the Grand Alps Group, says land purchases could start by February with groundbreaking in May. Developers are projecting a 2017 opening.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/texas/215m-domed-ski-resort-planned-for-north-texas/njdQS/

[Historic NY]

1. So what is the hottest temp in Texas....

and isn't there a H20 shortage.

[bluedigger]

2. Did they strike water in North Texas?

Because they will need plenty of it, not to mention electricity, to run a four season indoor ski area in North Texas. It's a little more involved than an ice rink.

[notadmblnd]

3. Really? Texas has the water to waste on an indoor ski arena?

[niyad]

4. where is the water coming from?

I am reminded of a bumper sticker from years ago:

If God had meant texans to ski, She would have made bullshit white.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. That last line is priceless.

And stolen.

[niyad]

9. you are welcome. it has long been one of my favourites.

[tridim]

6. Pretty much the worst idea I've heard in forever.

Ski Dubai might be worse.

[freshwest]

7. Stealing taxpayers dollars wholesale, ain't they?

[Paladin]

8. How about just reopening the Number 3 Lift, out on NW Highway?

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Did anybody else besides me frequent the Number 3, back in the 70's? It was fashioned after a ski resort bar, and it was an absolute zoo, each and every night. This new project has "fail" scrawled all over it......