Article: Officials striving to tie up cruise line.(Government)(Royal Caribbean is expected to apply soon to build a call center in the Gateway area)

Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard

SPRINGFIELD - If Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. decides to build a large reservations call center in the Gateway area, it will be quite a coup for local officials who have spent months working steadily behind the scenes.

E-mails obtained by The Register-Guard under the state public records law show that the city staff has been hustling with increasing intensity to provide information to Royal Caribbean about planning, development, transportation and other issues.

City officials even came up with a code name for the project: "Project Gopher," after the yeoman purser character on "The Love Boat," a ...

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