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P.G. resort grabs regional convention businessPublished 11/20/08
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Some have called it a Vegas casino minus the slot machines. Turning on the last bend of Interstate 295, it looms like The Wizard of Oz's Emerald City.
But however it strikes visitors, the numbers of the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center are clear: $987 million in building costs; 2,300 full-time, part-time and on-call employees; 2,000 hotel rooms; 470,000 square feet of meeting space; and — finally — a national attraction Prince George's County can call its own.
Part of the $4 billion National Harbor development just south of Washington, the resort opened in April and has...
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