Very exciting news! I took a three-day "man-cation" (me and two buds from work) down to Six Flags Over Texas last year just to ride the NEW Texas Giant. It was an amazing ride, smooth as a steel coaster, but with the fierce intensity of wood. The three tunnels added to the course (along with their cool lighting and fog effects) were pretty spectacular as well.
On a side note, I was fairly impressed with SFoT as a whole, but maybe that is mostly because I was comparing it to an exceedingly underwhelming Six Flags St Louis park...?
Anyway, back to the topic, if the Rocky Mt. folks can work similar "Texas Giant" magic from the start of a project to its amazing finish, you have to believe that SDC is in for a real treat, well worth the wait.