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“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.”
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.
A list of the owners of all of the ownership units under the jurisdiction of the Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority shows what buyers paid for their unit, when they bought it, and what it’s worth as of May 2014.
Video feeds from five infrared cameras released in response to an open records request from Aspen Journalism.
Nonprofit tax return data from the IRS via ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer tool.
The Windstar Land Conservancy is seeking to sell the 957-acre Windstar property bought by John Denver in the late 1970s. The asking price is $13.5 million.
How a very level hay field becomes a polo field in Pitkin County.
At least 50 billionaires on Forbes’ most recent wealth lists own property or have strong ties to property in the Aspen area.
After a foreclosure sale on the steps of the Pitkin County Courthouse on Nov. 16, the Related Companies and its entity Base Village Owner LLC no longer own the Base Village project. But the giant private real estate firm based in New York is still wrangling in court with the new apparent owners of the project, Hypo Real Estate Capital Corporation, which is controlled by a German government agency, FMS Wertmanagement in Munich. And the foreclosure sale does not become final until Dec. 1, as Related has eight working days to still make good on its outstanding debt through what’s known as a redemption period.
