Before we piece together the story of Grapevine's Historic District, we'll need to stop in and see the puzzle masters at The Grapevine Escape! The married duo behind one of Main Street's most popular entertainment venues has much to say about what makes this area special, and their unique experience encapsulates the spirit of the community itself.

Join us as we plot our Escape from Grape Vine!

The rundown:

00:00-02:41... Intro (with apologies to John Carpenter)
02:42-06:18... what's an escape room and why do we have one?
06:19-09:46... born on a bar room napkin
09:47-13:15... a narrative-driven, player-friendly approach
13:16-18:31... staying nimble and forging partnerships through market upheaval
18:32-23:11... what makes The Grapevine Escape special?
23:12-27:28... what comes next?

This season, you're getting an up-close look at Grapevine's Historic District, from its 19th-century origins to several 21st-century landmarks. That's a big task, so you'll want to start with a touch of caffeine.

In this special National Coffee Month episode, we're talking to four independent coffee house operators in Grapevine to see why they set up shop here... and what coffee tells us about the human experience.

Take the coffee shop recommender quiz: choosegrapevinetx.com/news-center/quiz

The rundown:
00:00-04:11... what our coffee says about us
4:12-10:16... Buon Giorno, your friendly neighborhood coffee house
10:17 - 16:39... the mad scientists at Brew & Batter
16:40 - 23:53... RE:Defined, where everybody knows your name
23:54- 29:42... honoring every guest at Pax & Beneficia
29:43 - 35:00... how coffee explains the world

'Growing Grapevine' returns with our biggest season yet! We're going way back to the early years of Grapevine to explore how and why our Authentic Historic Downtown came to be, then talking to the folks shaping developments and thriving in storefronts there today. 

We've packed everything from the Cotton Belt Rail line to your favorite restaurant on Main Street into twelve half-hour(ish) episodes, published once a month right here.

Our yearlong exploration of Grapevine Mills ends with a festive excursion on one of the City's most well-known attractions: the North Pole Express. But this themed train ride is more than one of 1,400 events in the Christmas Capital of Texas. It's also an important resource for one very important organization working to welcome new residents and economically disadvantaged families to Grapevine.

Our ongoing tour of Grapevine Mills dives deeper into the shopping center than ever before, bypassing iconic destination retail and entertainment offerings to drop in on an area few guests ever see: a fully functional police substation right on site! Hear from officers who patrol and train on the grounds (and the management who are thrilled to host them, even if a few TVs are harmed in the process) in this, the penultimate episode of 'Growing Grapevine,' Season 2.

The next stop on our grand tour of Grapevine Mills comes with polished wood floors and family entertainment aplenty! Join us as we examine the public-private partnership that turned a JC Penny Outlet into a service for residents all across Dallas-Fort Worth. Fieldhouse USA solved a few problems for Grapevine's award-winning Parks and Recreation Department... including one massive expansion you'll never see coming.

Grapevine, Texas is synonymous with dining, retail, and entertainment. But one of the City's fastest-growing companies is actually an unlikely tech startup: Sera Systems, a software developer serving technicians in the plumbing and HVAC space, is a multi-million-dollar publicly traded company with an unassuming headquarters just off Main Street. In this episode, our tour of Grapevine Mills pauses for a bathroom break so that we can interview the entrepreneur behind Sera and its sister company/beta testing field, BillyGo. You won't want to miss the story behind this unlikely pairing of pipes and circuits!

Our tour of Grapevine Mills takes an exciting turn down Main Street, thanks to the startup-friendly culture at Simon and in the City of Grapevine! In this month's episode, you'll meet Rachel Townsend-Cerny, owner and gallerist at RTown Art Gallery. A Grapevine native and the product of GCISD schools, Rachel is determined to grow the arts in her hometown. And she's not alone.

Katy Lemieux and Valerie Walizadeh took a lifelong dream to Kickstarter and launched the City's first independent bookstore! Their improbable journey is just the beginning as we dive into the power of Grapevine, a post-COVID surge of entrepreneurship, and a management team that loves to add local flavor to the Destination Attractions at Grapevine Mills.

There's no shortage of cutting-edge entertainment users in Grapevine, but one batch predates the majority of well-known concepts. The Merlin Entertainments cluster - which consists of a LEGOland Discovery Center, a SeaLife Aquarium, and the first American Peppa Pig World of Play - draws hundreds of thousands of people into the City every year. In fact, their parent company is second only to Disney for visitor attraction.

Join us as we explore the first truly revolutionary tenants of Grapevine Mills... and, of course, the daring sea turtle rescues associated with their work.

Before Meow Wolf Grapevine was public knowledge, it was Project Black Corinth.

After doing our best to explain Grapevine's newest destination attraction in last month's episode, the Economic Development team wanted to dive into the most important part of the project: its impact. Hear from the Creative Directors behind The Real Unreal and the team that recruited one of the nation's fastest-growing family entertainment brands to Grapevine Mills in this episode of 'Growing Grapevine.'

Plus (of course) a few more details on the exhibit before it opens in July 2023.