The price of land in downtown Aspen now makes it highly unlikely that a new stand-alone, moderately priced hotel will be built there again, according to research and interviews conducted recently by the city of Aspen.
Category: Land Use
The Windstar property and John Denver’s legacy in question
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.
Fuel sales could boost airport rent revenues
ASPEN – Pitkin County could receive at least $3 million in annual rent from a proposed new private jet center—a sum that is 16 times more than what the current fixed-base operator pays at Sardy Field.
Public in Paonia says privacy doesn’t justify Bear Ranch land swap
An effort to privatize access to public lands prompts debate.
Powder to the People fought the law – and the law won
USFS makes a call on access to Powder Tours terrain
Bear Ranch and the price of privacy
It’s part Dodge City, part Neverland.
Regional Hispanic Growth Brings Bilingual Ballots
The region’s growing Hispanic population likely will force county clerks in Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield counties to publish bilingual ballots for the first time ever. And as Hispanics make up a larger and larger population of potential voters, both Democrats and Republicans are looking to Latino voters to boost their parties. Under the 1973 Voting […]
Hispanics Boom in Region, and in Some Towns, Most Children are Hispanic
When Samuel Garcia opened his grocery in New Castle a decade ago, it was a sign of changing times. The town’s old general store became a grocery serving the Latino population at the same time New Castle’s complexion was beginning to change. By 2010, New Castle’s Hispanic population grew five times its size in 2000, […]
After recession, empty homes fill the region
When the recession ended the boom times of the first decade of the 21st Century, it left the lights out in thousands of unoccupied homes across the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys. Results of the 2010 U.S. Census show vacancy rates climbed from Aspen to Parachute, largely as a result of new construction outpacing […]
Garfield County, New Castle lead Western Slope growth
In the first decade of the 21st Century, a wave of newcomers filled manufactured houses and million-dollar golf course mansions to make New Castle the fastest-growing town on the Western Slope and put it in the ranks of Colorado’s biggest boomtowns. Garfield County became the state’s fourth fastest-growing county, trailing only the metro suburbs. Neighboring […]