Mesa could soon be home to Arizona’s biggest hotel.
The owner of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry hotel plans to build a new version of its signature hotel brand in Mesa, the company announced Wednesday.
Tennessee-based Gaylord Entertainment will buy 100 acres of the 3,200-acre General Motors Proving Ground in southeast Mesa to develop its fifth Gaylord resort and conference center project.
The hotel is expected to rise ten stories, will boast 1,200 to 1,500 rooms, and will have 400,000 square feet of meeting/convention space, restaurants and other resort amenities.
The Mesa project could be ready to start construction within 90 days after GM moves out, with the hotel opening as early as 2012.
Reed said Mesa was an attractive destination for the company because of its “well-educated work force, communities which are well governed and a decent community.”
Gaylord Entertainment, which specializes in upscale conference center resort complexes, also has properties in Florida, Washington D.C., and Texas.
