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Category: Wealth and Property

Posted inHistory, Land Use, Wealth and Property

Portal into time: Mine owner wants to preserve Aspen Mountain history

by Tim Cooney, Aspen Journalism June 30, 2016February 19, 2021

The Compromise Mine on Aspen Mountain is the site of a historic reckoning between populists and Gilded Age capitalists

Posted inWealth and Property

Crowns say they’re not funding Hunt’s Aspen projects

by Brent Gardner-Smith October 30, 2015February 19, 2021

“Prior to July, 2010, Crown family members were invested with Mark Hunt in several Chicago properties. Since that date, there has been no business relationship with Mr. Hunt whatsoever.”

Posted inWealth and Property

How the Aspen Art Museum was approved

by Brent Gardner-Smith August 10, 2014February 19, 2021

People are talking about the new museum’s wooden basket-weave look, its big views of Aspen Mountain from the “public penthouse” on the third floor, and how the building fits in with the neighborhood.

Posted inEnvironment, Land Use, Wealth and Property

Little Annie is rural and remote, but will it stay that way?

by Paul Andersen, Aspen Journalism August 5, 2014February 19, 2021

Pitkin County’s rural and remote zone district was adopted in 1994 in large part to preserve the Little Annie area.

Posted inAspen Desk, Local Public Data, Wealth and Property

The Aspen 50: billionaires of Pitkin County

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 28, 2014February 19, 2021

There are now more than 1,600 billionaires in the world, and at least fifty of them have stakes in the Aspen area — primarily through their ownership of real estate in Pitkin County.

Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County, Wealth and Property

County officials ‘not impressed’ with efforts to restore wedding meadow

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 13, 2014February 19, 2021

On Friday July 11 about half of the 2-acre wedding site, which is right off a public road at about 10,700 feet, appeared to be dry, bare dirt.

Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County, Wealth and Property

Miller challenges county on party-tent moratorium

by Brent Gardner-Smith July 11, 2014February 19, 2021

Little Annie’s landowner urges officials to “table” their moratorium on party tents in the rural and remote zone.

Posted inLand Use, Wealth and Property

Miller says wedding structures were much bigger than he expected

by Brent Gardner-Smith June 23, 2014February 19, 2021

“The wedding was totally over the top from what I expected,” said John Miller, who allowed a June 14 wedding to take place on his property in the Little Annie Basin.

Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County, Wealth and Property

Moratorium on party tents enacted by Pitkin County

by Brent Gardner-Smith June 19, 2014February 19, 2021

No party tents for nine months in the “rural and remote” zone larger than 1,000 square feet without detailed review by the county.

Posted inLand Use, Wealth and Property

‘Jack’s house’ undergoing top-to-bottom facelift

by Madeleine Osberger, Aspen Journalism June 17, 2014February 19, 2021

A renovation for a historic house in the West End, bought by Jack Nicholson so he could watch Laker’s games.

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