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Here are some of the radical ideas to help alleviate Colorado’s high-country housing crisis

by Jason Blevins

Jill Voyles knew the first year would not be easy. But it would be worth it for her and husband, Brendan McClarney, to move their three daughters to Crested Butte from St. Louis, Missouri. Then right after they arrived last spring, everything shut down. McClarney’s job as a construction project manager evaporated. So did Voyles’ […]

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Residents of Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood sue to stop legal homeless site from opening in church parking lot

by The Associated Press

Some residents in the Denver neighborhood of Park Hill are suing a nonprofit, a church and its pastor, and the city of Denver in an effort to prevent a legal homeless encampment from opening. The complaint filed Thursday in Denver District Court argues the site poses a danger to children, does not meet city requirements […]

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Mark Walter, who owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, is buying up Crested Butte’s downtown buildings

by Jason Blevins

Billionaire investor Mark Walter, the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is staking a claim in Gunnison County.  A lot of claims, actually.  The Chicago financier this year has quietly acquired six high-profile commercial properties, including the Almont Resort and several iconic buildings in downtown Crested Butte that are home to restaurants, bars and shops.  […]

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As 2020 winds down, renter programs get more money as Colorado’s state eviction moratorium is set to end

by Tamara Chuang

Struggling renters get one more month to figure out how to pay their rent, thanks to an extension of the national eviction moratorium in the new federal COVID-19 relief bill.  There’s also a new pot of federal money headed to Colorado just for rental assistance in the $908 billion Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations […]

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Coronavirus drives blistering sales of Colorado mountain homes, sets 2020 as historic high mark

by Jason Blevins

Prices are at record highs. Supplies of mountain homes for sale have never been lower. Across Colorado’s high country, resort community real estate sales have set records since July. Through October, the total real estate sales from six Colorado resort counties are nearly $1 billion greater than all sales last year.  “It’s Biblical,” George Harvey, […]

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Forest Service OKs access road to Eagle County community surrounded by public land. But not the one developers wanted.

by Jason Blevins

EDWARDS — The path up from the interstate is steep and muddy. In the winter, it’s closed to all visitors so elk and deer can hunker unbothered. At the end of the path lies an oasis where Florida investors Petr Lukes and Jana Sobotova want to build a luxury community. The developers have spent the […]

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Cimarron Mountain Club, a private ski area near Montrose, sells its seven final memberships

by Jason Blevins

Jim Aronstein’s business plan is moored in protecting powder.  So he took a pass when the brokers suggested he increase the number of homesites he was selling at his private Cimarron Mountain Club ski area near Montrose from just 13. When advisors recommended adding a chairlift, instead of using a snowcat, to access 60-plus runs […]