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Our monthly highlight of new businesses in Grapevine is usually built to showcase the incredible diversity of this market, combining retailers with restaurants and office users to give you a broad-spectrum view of the City. But some months, the trends are too powerful to ignore. In our September roundup of...
Artificial Intelligence projects like ChatGPT and Google Bard have dominated the headlines lately, and for good reason: machine learning has the capacity to revolutionize our approach to just about everything. While there’s a long and complex conversation to be had about the proper uses and guardrails for these emerging technologies,...
New businesses arrive in Grapevine nearly every week, and it's our pleasure to help you keep up with the action. This is a monthly feature in which we highlight a selection of newcomers that epitomize the diversity of our local economy. For a full list of new businesses, visit grapevinetexas.gov. You...
There are countless reasons to visit Grapevine. Some people come for the history, others for the dining and drinks. Still more choose our City for its wealth of quality retail. The market is so packed with good things, in fact, that it’s difficult to imagine room for any more. But...
It's been over a year since Meow Wolf announced a fourth permanent exhibit at Grapevine Mills, and most of us have spent the intervening time trying to figure out how to explain the concept to newcomers. Now that The Real Unreal has opened to the public, we have a new...
It’s been over a decade since Merlin Entertainments arrived in Grapevine; enough time for the brand to have fallen off your radar. Launched out of the U.K. in 1999, Merlin has spent the 21st century assembling a massive portfolio of attractions that span four continents. Some they built, while others...
It's been a big summer for Grapevine, with new destination restaurants and entertainment offerings opening left and right. Development tends to come in waves, in part because macroeconomic forces cause contractions and investment booms and in part because it's all about momentum. Once an area starts to take off, it's...
Meet the Dynamic Owner and Chef Behind Oishii Sushi, Your Next Favorite Pan-Asian Restaurant
Jun 2 2023The last few years have been tough for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Even here in Grapevine, where destination dining and entertainment thrive, the pandemic took a toll. But, as is often the case, a small batch of closures spurred the arrival of new and exciting concepts; none more...
We’re just over a month away from the grand opening of Meow Wolf’s Grapevine exhibition, The Real Unreal. Tickets are on sale and going fast for the July 14 debut, and the attraction is projected to bring a wealth of visitors into Grapevine. Last month, we published a closer look...
Ever since the public announcement of their new project last year, Meow Wolf has been at the center of conversations all over Grapevine. Often, those conversations start with a simple question:
What is Meow Wolf?
And, to be honest, that’s a great place to start. Even the staff...
Whether you’re new to Grapevine or an established part of the community, you’ve got access to a wealth of public and private resources. Economic Development supports the business community, but so does the Chamber of Commerce and the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. It can be difficult to know whom to...
Five years ago, Amazon selected Queens, New York, and Arlington, Virginia as the bifurcated site of their long-anticipated HQ2 project: a supplemental headquarters for the fast-growing company as it expanded its footprint far beyond Seattle. That decision marked the end of a yearslong competition between communities around the United States,...
We celebrate the latest business openings in Grapevine with a list of diverse new companies across the City every month... and this time, it was hard to choose just five. So we cheated a little and lumped three awesome new restaurants together in one listing so that there would be...
Grapevine Mills recently celebrated 25 years in operation, but it‘s also celebrating a decade of rebirth. The shopping center at the heart of Grapevine, Texas launched a years-long reinvigoration in the early 2010s. Since then, aesthetic changes and new tenants have revamped the property into a dynamic retail and entertainment...
After hosting a wealth of groundbreaking ceremonies and ribbon cuttings to close out 2022, development has cooled slightly here in Grapevine. That's normal; we'll see projects heating up again as we move it into the Summer and Fall. But even in down months, Grapevine is home to incredible entrepreneurs and...
As Valentine’s Day approaches, we can think of no better thing to celebrate than the long-lasting love between local businesses and the City of Grapevine. And, while rom-coms aren’t quite the same as public-private partnerships, we’ve noticed a few startling similarities as we ponder the beautiful relationships that make this...
You love Grapevine. If you didn't you wouldn't be reading this article. But no single person in our fine City knows everything there is to know about how it works, what's in the works, or why things here work the way they do. Our goal here in Grapevine Economic Development is...
2022 turned out to be another prolific year in Grapevine, with 161 verified new Certificates of Occupancy issued from January through December. All kinds of businesses continue to choose Grapevine, and it's become our monthly tradition to highlight a few of the City's newest vendors as a celebration of the...
For most people reading this, the idea of Professional Video Games probably sounds absurd. Appealing, maybe, but outlandish. The kind of fairytale we wished for as children or warned our children against. And yet, today, eSports are a multi-billion-dollar industry with teams and competitors all over the world.
Including...
As we enter the Holiday Season, retailers and services seem keen to join over 3,500 successful businesses here in the Christmas Capital of Texas. Grapevine Mills Mall has loaded up on exciting new offerings, including a temporary Nintendo kiosk that is sure to have your kids begging for another shopping...
Grapevine Economic Development is proud to announce the return of the 'Growing Grapevine' podcast! The inaugural season focused on the 'Big Fish;' projects that helped trace and explain the booming growth of the City over the last fifty years. Host Steven Jones returns in Season 2 with a more focused...
With another prolific month of new openings, the City of Grapevine is officially on-pace to issue more verified new certificates of occupancy this year than last! Only two months remain in the calendar year, but we're averaging 13.7 new businesses per month in 2022. To see a full listing of...
After a successful year at the helm in Grapevine, Larry Holt is joining the Economic Development team at Los Angeles County EDC. Holt posted notice with the City Manager’s Office and Human Resources on October 24, 2022. His last day in office will be Friday, November 4, 2022, whereupon he...
In a move that was six years in the making, Colorado-based General Contractor Fransen Pittman Construction finally settled into North Texas. After years of eyeing the lucrative market, the team decided to strike while the iron was hot, launching a new office in a competitive real estate market driven by...
