Author: DAVID O. WILLIAMS Special to The Gazette
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What does a major Vail ski village reboot look like in 2025?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VAIL • It wasn’t long after Rob Katz first took the helm of Vail Resorts in 2006 that the CEO started talking about Ever Vail, an innovative, green-built ski village he envisioned as Vail’s fifth ski…
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Relationship looking up
Vail Mayor Travis Coggin, right, is optimistic about the town’s relationship with Broomfield-based Vail Resorts, which operates 42 ski resorts globally. “Our relationship’s improving,” Coggin said. The two entities were engaged in contentious litigation settled last year.
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West Lionshead today
The view of what could potentially become a new base development at Vail called West Lionshead, which would include, conceptually, a new gondola onto Vail Mountain, a 120-room hotel, for-sale residential units, employee housing, an 8,500 square-foot events center, a transit center and commercial space.
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Passenger rail advocates push state to connect southern, western Colorado
EAGLE COUNTY • Passengers or petroleum products? That’s one of the key questions being bandied about in a renewed effort to revive part of the long-dormant Tennessee Pass rail line linking southern Colorado to the state’s Western Slope. As the Polis administration continues to focus almost exclusively on planning for passenger rail in the northern Front…
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Moffat Tunnel wastewater spill highlights rail safety issues for state, local leaders
As Colorado lawmakers this month prepare to do something that Congress has been incapable of for more than a year — debate meaningful rail-safety legislation — Union Pacific, state regulators and officials in Grand County are debating tough questions about a massive wastewater spill last summer into the Fraser River near the state-owned Moffat Tunnel. In December,…