Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:08:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> I'm curious about "We were contacted on July 4th via the
> rec.arts.sf.fandom
> newsgroup by the Gaylord people about their upcoming
> 300,000 square foot
> Washington Harbor resort convention center in P.G. County
> south of the
> Wilson Bridge. Bob said they will probably have
> sufficient function space,
> but probably not enough hotel capacity. The planned
> on-site hotel will only
> have about a thousand rooms, and an east coast Worldcon
> needs at least
> twice that. [Their website says 1500 rooms.] It is
> nowhere near any Metro
> station or any existing hotels or motels, but parking
> would be "copious and
> free". Ground has not yet been broken. We will keep their
> site in mind."
>
> Who are the Gaylord people?  From the rest of that
> sentence it sounds as if
> they're a development company but I can't see a company
> like that
> contacting someone via RASFF.  Or is this in reference to
> the person who'd
> talked with Sam and wanted to get in touch with the bid
> chair?  Does he
> work for Gaylord?
>

I think the Gaylord people might be the same company that
owns the mammoth Opryland Hotel just outside Nashville,
Tennessee.

Rich Lynch
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