Company pulls out of Chula Vista project
By Tanya Mannes and David Washburn
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
A redevelopment deal that would have erased decades of failure to build up the Chula Vista bayfront – and made the city a big player in the national convention business – is dead.
Citing an inability to reach an agreement with local unions after more than a year of negotiations, Gaylord Entertainment said yesterday that it will no longer pursue a plan to build a $1 billion hotel and convention center on the city's long-vacant bayfront.
The Tennessee company's decision marked a stunning reversal of fortune for a deal that Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox just months ago called “the most realistic and realizable plan for the bayfront that I've seen in more than 30 years.”
While Cox and other city officials joined Gaylord in blaming unions for the deal's demise, local labor leaders, along with Rep. Bob Filner, D-San Diego, said the company's intractable negotiating stance and Cox's poor leadership led to its unraveling.
Cox said Gaylord CEO Colin Reed called her yesterday afternoon from Nashville to tell her the news.
Read more of this story in the San Diego Union-Tribune
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Deadlock over Gaylord resort spurs rally by officials
By Tanya Mannes
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Faced with the threat of losing a bayfront development to a labor dispute, Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox and other public officials held a rally yesterday to demand that union leaders resume bargaining with Gaylord Entertainment.
“Labor leaders, it's up to you now,” Cox said, surrounded by 150 supporters in a vacant lot near the Gaylord site. “Get on the next plane to Nashville and make a deal now to let this resort go through.”
Negotiations between local unions and Gaylord broke down Friday.
The Tennessee-based company has city and Port of San Diego support to construct the $1 billion hotel and convention center on a long-vacant stretch of bayfront land, but no agreement with the local union leaders to build it. Without an agreement, Gaylord officials have pledged to walk away from the development.
Read more on this development in the Union Tribune in San Diego.
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Faced with the threat of losing a bayfront development to a labor dispute, Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox and other public officials held a rally yesterday to demand that union leaders resume bargaining with Gaylord Entertainment.
“Labor leaders, it's up to you now,” Cox said, surrounded by 150 supporters in a vacant lot near the Gaylord site. “Get on the next plane to Nashville and make a deal now to let this resort go through.”
Negotiations between local unions and Gaylord broke down Friday.
The Tennessee-based company has city and Port of San Diego support to construct the $1 billion hotel and convention center on a long-vacant stretch of bayfront land, but no agreement with the local union leaders to build it. Without an agreement, Gaylord officials have pledged to walk away from the development.
Read more on this development in the Union Tribune in San Diego.
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