Real Estate In The News June 2021
ASPEN
Air Quality Was Good in 2020
Aspen Building Moving to Net Zero
Aspen had better air in 2020 than both 2018 and 2019 in terms of number of healthy days, the Aspen Daily News reported. According to Aspen’s Air Quality Report 2020 report, there were only two days of unhealthy air in Aspen in 2020, largely due to smoke from the Grizzly Creek Fire and other wildfires in the region. Aspen had not experienced such high pollution days since the dust storms in 2009 and 2013.
Aspen City Council is on the fast track to adopting a new building code that focuses on not only energy efficiency but also net-zero waste in demolition of old buildings and onsite renewable sources for new structures, among other measures, the Aspen Times reported. The city’s building code gets updated every six years and is due for one this year or in early 2022.
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Council agreed that further energy savings and greenhouse-gas reduction can come in the areas of net-zero construction, electrification, and embodied energy. Buildings are responsible for 58% of greenhouse gas emissions in Aspen. Theatre Aspen Returns in Full Swing The Hurst Theatre will light up this summer as Theatre Aspen is hosting a robust calendar filled with music, drama, satire, a gala and more, the Aspen Daily News reported. The 38th
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season, spanning June 30 to Aug. 31, will include two musicals, “Chicago” and “Rock of Ages,” the return of the organization’s developmental oneperson show festival, Solo Flights, and multiple special events, as well as three Theatre Aspen Education productions. In addition to this summer’s performances, Theatre Aspen will also host its annual gala in July. Titled “Midsummer Masquerade,” Darren Criss — an Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winning actor and singer — will headline the gala on July 25.
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SNOWMASS
Mountain Chalet Snowmass Bought of Louisiana and Larry McGuire of Texas. by Melvilles Melville said there are no immediate plans to overhaul the 64-room lodge in A limited liability company controlled Snowmass, which his late father, Ralph, by Craig Melville acquired Snowmass built in 1967 when the ski resort opened. Mountain Chalet for $10.5 million, the The Melvilles also built the Mountain Aspen Times reported, bringing the Chalet in Aspen; the original lodge property back into the family ownership debuted in 1954. He said the family that originally built it. The Melville had been eyeing the Snowmass chalet family also sold their Mountain Chalet since 2017 to add to their collection that on Durant Avenue at the foot of Aspen includes the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Mountain for $68 million in late March Springs and Cristiana Guesthaus in to a partnership led by Zach Kupperman Crested Butte.
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Snowmass Lineup
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Summer series debuts Saturday and Sunday at 9 a.m. on the lawn covering the skating rink. Movies Under the Stars returns with Snowmass has announced its full six films showing Saturday nights from summer of events, the Aspen Times late July through the month of August. reported. There will be live music fourdays-a-week performances Fridays, And the popular Thursday concerts will Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays slated run every Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. to begin in July in Base Village. Aaron from June 10 to Aug. 26, with a bonus King’s summer drop-in King Yoga Jam concert slated for July 4.
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BASALT
Capitol Creek Brewing Co. Purchased Final Plans Submitted for Willits by New Owners of Aspen Brewing Co. Architect Michael Lipkin, the founder of The owner of Aspen Brewing Co. is Willits development, submitted a land use now wading into Willits Town Center application to the town of Basalt for as in Basalt, where it plans to finalize its many as 119 free-market condominiums purchase of Capitol Creek Brewing and as many as 36 affordable housing Co., the Aspen Times reported. High units, the Aspen Times reported. The Country Brewing LLC is the name of the plan review starts with Basalt’s Planning newly formed ownership group that’s and Zoning Commission. The condos an offshoot of Legacy Breweries, which and affordable housing units are on the in the fall acquired Aspen Brewing last 12 undeveloped acres on the site. Co. Both acquisitions, for undisclosed In addition to the residences, Lipkin amounts, include the breweries’ applied to complete a lake and adjacent commercial leases, inventory, brand landscaping that’s in the middle of the and label, equipment and other assets. property. He also will complete a trail around the lake that integrates into a popular public trail network.
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Two Rivers Improvements
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Getting Distillery Approved For Construction
The town of Basalt is teaming with a development firm to undertake $1,277,731 in improvements to Two Rivers Road in front of the new Basalt River Park, the Aspen Times reported. The work will be performed between the intersection with Midland Avenue and Old Pond Park. It will include curb and gutter, parking spaces, sidewalks, landscaping and extensive utility work. The cost is being shared because the work will benefit both the town’s park along the Roaring Fork River and an adjacent residential and commercial development also called Basalt River Park.
Pitkin County commissioners approved a distillery and three employee housing units for the site of a former lumberyard near Basalt, the Aspen Times reported. The Emma Fields Distillery — which will include eight buildings — will be constructed on an eight-acre site located 3 miles south of Basalt on Highway 82. The property owner plans to use grain and other ingredients grown on the site and from other area farms to produce the distilled spirits. The site will not be open to the public once completed.
CARBONDALE
Take a Historic Home Tour, Audibly Carbondale Historical Society members Kim McGee and John Williams created an audio-tour of historic homes using material
compiled for the Carbondale Historic Preservation Committee. The “This I Remember” audio archive includes over 70 episodes featuring local voices from Carbondale’s past. Find these and more at carbondalehistory.org
GLENWOOD SPRINGS
CDOT Gives City $150,000 Pedestrian Improvement
for The new pathway will provide safe pedestrian connectivity to the Traver Trail Ride Glenwood bus stop. The The Colorado Department of Revitalizing Main Streets grants help Transportation, as part of its larger localities improve their roadways and Revitalizing Main Streets initiative, community infrastructure, supporting awarded the city of Glenwood Springs strong economic activity and public $149,999 toward constructing safety. The program began last pedestrian passage along Devereaux summer in an effort to mitigate the Road on the western edge of Two River negative economic fallout from the Park, the Aspen Daily News reported. COVID-19 crisis.
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Woody Creek Tavern Patio Space to steakhouses and CP Burger — Stay Post-Covid purchased the Woody Creek Tavern at the end of 2020. At a May Pitkin County Additional patio space served the Commissioners meeting, the board Woody Creek Tavern well amid the granted the new owners’ request to pandemic and its new owners intend extend the additional patio space and to keep the extra space intact even as waiting area to become permanent COVID-19 restrictions dissipate, the fixtures to the venerable bar and grill. Aspen Daily News reported. Aspen restaurateurs Craig and Samantha Multijurisdictional Fire Detection Pilot Cordts-Pearce — who are also Program Underwayhe Aspen Fire behind The Wild Fig, two downtown Protection District announced a multi-
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jurisdictional partnership to provide early, automated wildfire detection by placing specialized cameras at specific vantage points, the Aspen Daily News reported. Together between AFPD, the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office, Pitkin County Telecommunication, Elk Mountain Technology and Pano AI, a wildfire technology company, coupled with private funding from Red Mountain resident Jerry Hosier, they will use Pano AI’s platform to detect
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initial signs of smoke and send out realtime fire images to first responders and emergency personnel. The cameras, stationed on Pitkin County communications towers, will rotate continuously, capturing 360-degree imagery that is processed in live time by the Pano AI engine, which uses advanced computer vision techniques to detect smoke and alert dispatch or appropriate agencies.