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Big News: Everything Is the Same

Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:47 AM PST



Many of us have been waiting patiently for an announcement about the Chula Vista bay front. The port and Gaylord Entertainment have been huddling in secret for months trying to salvage the project. So, Tuesday, when I got an e-mail from Gaylord, I thought maybe it was happening. Gaylord doesn't send out many e-mails.

What was the big announcement?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- February 12, 2008 -- Gaylord Entertainment Co. (NYSE:GET) announced today that negotiations between the City of Chula Vista, The Unified Port of San Diego, and Gaylord Entertainment continue to move forward.

Nice. Sounds like fun.

-- SCOTT LEWIS




6 Comments so far on this story...

Looks like SLOP got scooped. You need to read the UT more.

Posted by Larry | reply to this comment
February 13, 2008 10:01 am

Larry - not sure what you mean, the U-T only reported the same thing Gaylord did: Negotiations continue...

Posted by Scott Lewis | reply to this comment
February 13, 2008 10:11 am

"Chula Vista's negotiations to develop a $1 billion hotel and convention center on its bayfront are nearing the final stages, with a deal expected by mid-April. " -- That says a heckuva lot more than you did. I had no idea that they were this close until I read it in the UT. Your post? Not so helpful.

Posted by Larry | reply to this comment
February 13, 2008 11:38 am

Gosh Larry the U/T is reporting news now? I guess someone like Cheryl Cox, a good ol' gal, must have tipped them off on the dream she had last night.

Posted by Ian Trowbridge | reply to this comment
February 13, 2008 1:18 pm

Not to speak for Scott, but I'd say anyone who wants to know what's going on in SD reads ALL the news ALL the time, for better or worse. This includes the left and right blogs that often get tipped off long before the traditional news media. Recently, the right wing blogs have scooped news before the right wing SD-UT, and I've read the articles where such blogs have been given credit for the hat tip by the big paper. // Now, Larry, you ongoing and bitter curmudgeon, the reality of news is that it gets disseminated widely, and nowadays there's no longer a real urgency to be first or to be the scooper. Scooping used to mean something, but now it is irrelevant with the new internet media phenomenon. What's important is that news doesn't get buried!

Posted by Christopher Hall | reply to this comment
February 13, 2008 6:13 pm

If CV goes thru with aything close to the $300 million give away that was last on the table the residents should take out the entire pool of elected officials and pound themn into the ground-head first.

Posted by Billy Bob Henry | reply to this comment
February 13, 2008 7:38 pm


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