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JULY 1, 2009
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A deer stands in front of a home in Strawberry Park on Monday morning. The tall grass seemed to provide plenty of cover and food for the animal.
Talent runs in family
Atira submits base plans
Lack of nightlife in 660,000-square-foot development concerns some Brandon Gee
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Correction The next Routt County meeting on shared uses of county roads is at 6 p.m. Monday in the Commissioners Hearing Room of the Routt County Courthouse. The date was incorrect in the “New road policies ahead” article on page 3 of Tuesday’s Steamboat Today.
In a backward economy, The Atira Group is pushing forward with plans for the redevelopment of Ski Time Square. But developers will ask for a 10-year grace period before they must bring the project to fruition. Development plans for Ski Time Square — sister to the
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Tuesday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 2-3-7-19-29 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
proposed 390,000-square-foot Thunderhead Lodge redevelopment project approved by the city in May — call for five buildings totaling more than 660,000 square feet of mixed-use development on 4.6 acres. Like Thunderhead, the Ski Time Square development between Ski Time Square Drive and Burgess Creek Road would be 105 feet tall at its highest points. Together, the projects would replace the
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demolished Ski Time Square and Thunderhead Lodge properties, which totaled about 235,000 square feet, with more than 1 million square feet of new development. Despite the dramatic increase in gross square footage, Atira is proposing a decrease in commercial spaces. That prospect caused some eyebrows to rise during Atira’s preapplication hearings with the Steamboat Springs Planning
Commission and City Council, but Atira argues retail studies show its proposal is appropriate. In Ski Time Square, Atira is proposing about 200 residential units totaling nearly 400,000 square feet and about 27,000 square feet of commercial space for stores and restaurants. City planner Jonathan Spence said it does not appear that See Base area, page 18
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