Great Wolf Resorts
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| Industry | Hospitality |
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| Headquarters | Madison, Wisconsin, United States |
| Number of locations | 12 |
| Key people | Kim Schaefer, CEO |
| Website | Great Wolf Lodge |
Great Wolf Resorts is a chain of family oriented resort hotels under the Great Wolf Lodge and Blue Harbor Resort brands. Each features themed indoor and outdoor waterpark along with spas for adults and children, suites which include bunk beds, large arcades, and supervised children's activities.
The principal ownership of Great Wolf Lodge was composed of brothers Jack and Andrew Waterman who were the original owners of the Noah's Ark waterpark, which is commonly billed as America's Largest Waterpark. Great Wolf Lodge's headquarters is currently in Madison, Wisconsin.[1][2]
Great Wolf's CEO Kim Schaefer was featured in the U.S. version of TV's "Undercover Boss", which included visits to several lodges where she worked alongside a lifeguard supervisor, front desk clerk, restaurant waitstaff and in the children's program.[3][4]
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[edit] Properties
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- Garden Grove, California (opening 2013)[5]
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (opening late 2011)
- Concord, North Carolina
- Grand Mound, Washington
- Grapevine, Texas
- Kansas City, Kansas
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania
- Sandusky, Ohio
- Traverse City, Michigan
- Williamsburg, Virginia
- Wilkesboro, North Carolina (opening early 2012)
- Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
[edit] Future development
On January 13, 2010, Great Wolf Lodge, Inc. stated Zamias Services, Inc. of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, will co-develop a hotel-water park resort which will be attached to the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills. Zamias owns the mall in Frazer Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 28. The mall has struggled with vacancies since it opened in 2005, though the water park could make the mall a regional attraction. The hotel should open up by late 2011.[6]
On June 28, 2010 Great Wolf Resorts signed a License and Management Agreements for a Great Wolf Lodge location in Garden Grove, California. The hotel will be near Disneyland, Anaheim and Los Angeles and will be developed by McWhinney. The hotel will start groundbreaking in 2011 and the hotel should be opening around summer 2013.
[edit] References
- ^ Great Wolf Lodge official website Retrieved on 6/10/08
- ^ Great Wolf Lodge Fact Sheet Retrieved on 6/10/08
- ^ "'Undercover Boss' returns to area". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 2010-OCT-03. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101003/ENT11/10030319/-Undercover-Boss-returns-to-area. Retrieved 2010-10-03. "Deanna Lyons was too busy to talk much to new employee "Chris" waiting tables with her at Mason's Great Wolf Lodge in July. But the Lebanon resident said enough to make her "Undercover Boss" cry. Great Wolf Resorts CEO Kim Schaefer chokes back tears on the "Undercover Boss" commercial as she says: "It was just hard hearing her story." Lyons, 39, told Schaefer how her 9-year-old daughter, Alyssia Hill, was struck and killed by a pickup in Loveland in 1999."
- ^ Huff, Richard (4 October 2010). "Great Wolf Resorts CEO Kim Schaefer works all over the company on 'Undercover Boss'". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/10/01/2010-10-01_to_go_undercover_a_boss_has_to_work.html. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
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- ^ "Great Wolf plans water park near Pittsburgh". La Crosse Tribune. http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/state-and-regional/article_a51255a8-006e-11df-b1bf-001cc4c002e0.html.
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