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Show The Park Record C-8 Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 2-4, 2005 Women may be pacing men on skis • Continued from C-6 ^y The Basic Knead (60 minute session) I 875 Iron Horse Drive, Suite C (Near Rite Aid &AIbertsons) ' ' Call 435- 615.84401° make an appointment t Open 7 days a week 10:00 am tog.-OOpm www.ParkCityHomeTeam.com Your Home is in good hands when you buy or sell with the Park City Home Team We know the inventory! We know the values! We know what you want! Haydcn is losing people from the ranches and coal-mining sectors, where larger families were more common. Instead, the town •Down-valley town going is increasingly populated by pro- underground fessionals who work in Steamboat Springs and who have small famiHALLEY, Idaho - Hailey, a lies, if at all. While new housing is . down-valley town from Kctchum to be delivered starting at price of and Sun Valley, is going under$200,000. that's still too expensive ground. For the first time, a buildfor many families. ing is being planned that will A similar phenomenon has include an underground parking been reported broadly in ski towns garage. The garage will service and close-in suburbs. In the Aspen both retail space on the ground areas, for example, the only level, office space on the second, schools gaining in population are and condominiums on the lop about 70 miles away. floor. •Both deer and plow can deter incoming birds •Publisher plans magazine exploring givers of Aspen GUNNISON, Colo. - After trying rubber buckshot to keep animals off the runway at the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport, airport officials will be looking for more sophisticated, or at least successful, methods. In the past, a landing jet once hit a deer, while foxes and other animals, have also been a problem. The Federal Aviation Administration has offered to help build a larger fence on the airport perimeter, and the Crested Bntte News reports that the FAA is providing $80,000 to pursue a wildlife research project and wildlife control plan. Just what the research project will include was not reported. The biggest problem so far. however, was not wildlife, but a snowplow. In early January, the snowplow was traveling 40 to 60 mph on the airporl laxiway when it clipped a Continental Airlines jet with 86 passengers on board. Visibility was poor, and the snowplow operator could not see the jet. ASPEN, Colo. - Swift, the large publishing chain thai dominates Colorado's 1-70 and the Lake Tahoe region, is expanding. In recent weeks it has purchased a free-circulation daily newspaper in Grand Junction and announced plans to get into the magazine publishing business in Aspen. Based in Reno. Nev., the newspaper already owns several dozen newspapers, mostly in resort areas of the West. In Colorado's high country, it has a virtual monopoly on the lucrative Breckenridge-' Vail-GIcnwood Springs-Aspen area. In its latest acquisitions, Swift purchased the Grand Junction Free Frew, which was started about two years ago by John Duffy, a veteran of several newspapers in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. 'Hie Rree Press competes with the Grand Junction Dally Sentinel, another chain newspaper. 'Hie Sentinel's publisher, George Orbanek, several years ago dismissed the potential for a competing newspaper from the resort areas by saying that the areas were just too different. Grand Junction people, he said, saw the world differently than people in resort areas. In the latest news. Swift is planning a magazine called the Aspen Philanthropist Although Aspen already has three lifestyle-based magazines, this won't be one of them, insists Kate Carey, who will be publisher. Hie Roaring Fork Valley, where Aspen is located, has 60,000 people but 300 nonprofits. And what is the point of the magazine - other than to make a •Free skier parking to end at Crested Butte CATHY A H L E R S & VICKIE BURGESS-KEENE .<. i MI BiioKi-K. CRB,CRS.GRI 435.6--i0.5682 • •,, ,„ 435-640.2616 iiiM-.' parkciryhonn.Ti.-ani.ciim SflddUview Office 2200 Pdik An Bfafg B - Parfc City, UT 84060 0ffke8S0.553.U66 Fa>;435.649.5696 Prudential Utah Roal ESIBIO of $25,000 per space. However, the freebie will continue for a couple of winters more, reports the Crested Butte News. MT. CRESTED BUITE, Colo. - The days of free parking for skiers will probably end at the Crested Butte ski area. Major expansions are planned for both the ski area and the real estate at its base in hopes of attracting more destination skiers, and in this makeover the space for cars will become more expensive. Some 1,000 parking spaces are to be built, many of them underground, but at a construction cost profit at the expense of non-profits? "'This magazine is going to be quite different (than the lifestyle magazines)," said Carey ''It's all about the giving, caring side of Aspen. To me, what's fascinating is what motivates someone to be a philanthropist, whether it's time or assets. This is not a lifestyle magazine." The new magazine is to be published twice yearly, with a projected size of 144 pages. Both patrons and the non-profits are to be profiled. 'Hie magazine will be distributed in offices of asset management companies, banks, accountants, attorneys, and physicians. It will also be included in a gift bag given to passengers on each charter jet flight and to private jet owners at Pitkin County's Sardy Field. It is being assembled by Erncy Ashley, a veteran of publishing for 35 years in the Roaring Fork Valley. Meanwhile, three more radio stations are expected to begin broadcasting in Aspen's market areas, if not necessarily Aspen itself. Radio stations in Basalt. Carbondale, and New Castle, all located within about 60 miles of Aspen, are planned, reports The Aspen Times •Construction mostly on the rise in resort towns despite some of the most extensive second-home development in Colorado in adjacent areas. But Pagosa s population could increase 37 percent given the new development plans recently submitted to town officials. Meanwhile, the town continues to study the big picture, studying whether it wants to accept a WalMart Supercenier, and if so, under what terms, reports the Pagosa Sun. In Utah, Park City recorded $% million of construction hist year. behind only two boom years during the 1990s. About half was for sirfgle-family homes. Much of the construction was at Empire Pass, adjoining Deer Valley Resort. However, commercial construction was down. In Jackson Hole, the building pace lagged what might have been expected. 'Hie total for permits was behind those of 1994 and the 19982000 span. One architect. Steve Dynia. said that people building high-end homes took a more sober approach to projects than what was seen in the past, a time characterized by the Jackson Hole News & Guide as a time of "damn-thc-cost clients." In California, the Mammoth Times reports construction of 600 new housing units is expected to get underway this year, making it one of the most developmentintensive years ever. ASPEN. Colo. -Not surprisingly, given the giant rebound of the real estate market, construction is •Are women nrfrhtng np whfa on the rise at resort towns across men on skis? the West. In Aspen building permits for SQUAW VALLEY. Calif. $116 million in construction were Some think female skiers are catchawarded last year, up from the ing up with the guys. Case in point: prior year. Among the projects was Ingrid Backstrom authoritatively a major downtown hotel and exten- skied a 1,500-foot shot in three sive renovation of another. turns at Bella Cola. B.C.. better the But Aspen's construction six-turn run on the steep slope a rebound paled in comparison to year before by Shaen McConkeys. sibling rival Vail, where $155 milAnd what credit did she get for lion in permits were awarded last this? It was assumed she must have year, a new record that bested the been, something not corrected old record set in 2003. Various until she saw herself on a promoprojects that altogether amount to tional DVD. "Wait, that's me." she $1 billion in redevelopment and said. development projects are getting She took it as a compliment, but underway in Vail. Town officials if female skiers keep improving as would not be surprised if building they have, comments the Tahoe permits for more than $200 million World, to be told that they ski like in construction are pulled this year. men will no longer be considered a Elsewhere in Colorado, the compliment. numbers were smaller but the Allen Best has edited mountain changes potentially more drastic. town newspapers for 20 years. He In Pagosa Springs, between has sewed as managing editor at Durango and the Wolf Creek ski four different mountain town newsarea, the population has remained papers and is now living in metrofairly stable for the past decade, ' politan Den vet: ^^^mmsmss SWEET Y0UR COUNTRY, Park Record. PARK CITY, UTAH |