 A local resort is currently undergoing a 30 million dollar expansion that when completed will make it the largest resort in Minnesota. Grand View Lodge in Niswa opened this door to their new recreation center that is a part of the expansion last week. Reporter Rachel Johnson has more. Grand View Lodge was first established in 1916 as a small vacation destination, but as of this May it will soon become the largest resort in Minnesota. There's no place in the area that has this type of recreation, so this is really going to help get our guests to enjoy the atmosphere. The resort is undergoing a 30 million dollar expansion which includes the addition of a 60 room boutique hotel, a new recreation center, a wedding chapel, and two new residential communities. Expansion is huge, I mean we're getting 40 new cabins, a 60 room boutique hotel, and then North Park. The recreation center opened its door to the public earlier this month. We have this beautiful fitness center, we have a spin yoga classroom, lap pool, it'll have an exterior pool the same size that will open up on Memorial weekend. The boutique hotel and the remainder of the expansion is slated to be open by July. The new 60 room boutique hotel along with the two new residential communities will add accommodation for around 500 guests a night making Grand View Lodge the largest resort in Minnesota. The Grand View Lodge expansion is expected to bring more business to the area and impact the city of Niswa. We'll be looking at around 1500 people every single day that we'll be bringing into the community. All of our guests, they get guests, they stop by the liquor store and the grocery store to buy their food, you know just that type of effect of 450 more people every single day to the community, we're going to see the effects overall in everybody's pockets and businesses. Though the project at hand is large, Grand View expects that it won't be the final expansion that the resort sees. Who knows whether this will take us to tell you the truth, I mean right now it's just about doing everything that we've always done really well in the past, bringing that on a little larger scale and seeing how it works from there. So we'll just have to take a look after the summer and decide where to go next. Reporting from Niswa, Rachel Johnson, Lakeland News. The outdoor pool at North Park is scheduled to be open by Memorial Day Weekend with the boutique hotel and additional cabins set to open by July 1st. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.