Growing Grapevine

Grapevine Economic Development Presents "Growing Grapevine," a podcast about the people and policies that shape our unique community. This season, we're looking at the first Big Fish to get hooked on North Texas, and the community transformation that followed.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.