CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — For decades, Corpus Christi has dreamed big and missed big.
SeaWorld wanted in. A Landry’s boardwalk was proposed. Voters rejected a waterfront park called Destination Bayfront. A convention hotel deal collapsed. And Schlitterbahn? It opened… then shut down.
Now, another headline-grabbing project, a billion-dollar desalination plant, could be headed for the same disappointing fate…