Posts Tagged ‘Mountain Town’
Renewable Energy by 2035
Breckenridge is striving to be powered entirely by renewable energy by 2035. So how did we get here? A task force was created in March of 2017 by the direction of the Breckenridge Town Council. They instructed staff to form a panel and ...
Breckenridge Ranked #1 for Arts
Breckenridge took the top slot in this year's Arts Vibrancy Index, an annual nationwide survey of artistic communities! Started in 2014, the study by the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University ra...
All Time High Tax Collections
Visitors and locals are spending record amounts in Colorado’s mountain communities. Sales tax collections are again reaching all-time highs in 2016. For the fourth year in a row, sales in the high country smashed tax collection records...
Expanding Hotel Development
Summit County is starting to see more and more hotel conglomerates building high-end resort type hotels; expanding hotel development in the mountains. In the past, hotel developers have been tentative to build in mountain communitie...
$33 Million Granted to Protect Our Forests From Wildfires
The From Forests to Faucets program will receive $33 million in funding toward forest restoration projects aiming to reduce the risk of wildfires over five years. The resources will help treat more than 40,000 acres of forests near watershe...
Stowe Is Now Epic
Vail Resorts has made another big purchase. Last week Vail Resorts finalized the acquisition of Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont for $50 million. Vail Resorts owns ski areas in Colorado, California, Utah, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, ...
Students Boost Silverthorne’s Makeover Momentum
A group of CU students who were assigned a “real-life project” have given town managers a lot of fresh, energetic ideas for Silverthorne’s makeover, which is finally moving out of its data collection and visionary stages and into action...
