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This development was to include a 300-room lodge, a 50,000-square-foot indoor water park, a 30,000-square-foot conference center, restaurant, a shopping arcade, gift shop, spa, fitness center, and outdoor recreation area on a 43-acre site in southern Thurston County, WA. The Chehalis Tribes entered into a development agreement with Great Wolf Resorts of Madison, WI, that planned five comparable resorts in the Midwest. In late 10/2008, the Chehalis Tribes went to US Federal Court to prevent Thurston County Assessor, Patricia Costello, from taxing 49% of the improvements on the Great Wolf Lodge. (While the Chehalis were exempt from paying property taxes on their own land, Thurston County contended that co-owner, Great Wolf Resorts of WI, was not exempt.) The Lodge would have been liable for over $760,000 in property taxes for 2009.

PCAD id: 6562