Construction and Expansion Update

“The new Opal's location in The Garden is completed, but its opening is being postponed while crews continue work on the new elevator foyer next to it. The elevators will provide private access to the new players' lounge, and workers were still installing and finishing shetrock and other elements of the foyer last week. The new Opa's will offer Starbucks coffee and a selection of popular muffins, cookies and candy. Elsewhere in The Garden, the holiday poinsettas have been replaced with sping-evoking bromeliad, which are members of the pineapple family and have thick, stifff leaves and bright-flowered spikes. The bromeliad surround the bases of the palm trees throughout The Garden. Plants in The Garden are changed periodically to enhance a feeling of freshness for guests. Work continues on the new retail shops that are tucked behind the twin waterfalls, on either side of the small ground-floor rotunda. Recessed track lighting has been installed in one of the stores, and mechanical and electrical work in both shops appears to be nearly complete. Plans call for the shops to offer fine jewelry and seasonal gifts. Work also is continuing in portions of the Event Center. While most of the meeting rooms have been open since late fall, crews are still working on one glass enclosed room off the main corridor, next to the restrooms. Crewas last week were hanging sheetrock in that room, which is shaped something like a trapezoid. Utility crews were out at the Golf Dome site last week, working on the facilities infrastructure. The dome will be the premier indoor golf practice facility in the region and is slated to open sometime in February.”