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Private equity fund buys CB’s Old Town Inn Former owners Fails and Garren ready to retire Abby Harrison Times Staff Writer Bella Biondini Times Editor
PEDAL TO THE METAL: Kids on bikes sped around the Jorgensen Park BMX track during the first installment of the Gunni Grinders bike race series on Aug. 1. For more, see A12. (Photo by Mariel Wiley)
More big money settled in the Gunnison Valley with the multi-million dollar sale of Crested Butte’s Old Town Inn at the end of July. The new owner is a real estate fund, Stomp Capital, which boasts over $70 million in Old Town Inn A6
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At the start of the summer, town council approved the final plan for the Village at Mt. Crested Butte, a large-scale development planned for the base of Snodgrass Mountain. It’s possible, once newly-discovered sewer system capacity problems are addressed, construction could begin as soon as next year. The Village at Mt. Crested Butte, formerly known as the “North Village,” is a roughly 150-acre property located
along Hwy. 135 in northern Mt. Crested Butte. The lot is privately owned by North Village Associates LLC under Claudio and Yvonne Alvarez, who acquired it after the Muellers sold Crested Butte Mountain Resort to Vail in 2018. He also owns the Crossbar Ranch at the base of Monarch Pass. After it is fully built out, the Village will contain almost 400 residential units and 100 hotel rooms. The site plans also include a trail system, and 120,000 square feet of commercial space for offices, restaurants and shops. The development team’s vision is a “liveable, walkable village environment,” said Crockett” Farnell of Black Dragon Development, the projVillage A6
removed under a cloak of anoColorado nymity. Colorado legislators passed Supreme Court Senate Bill 24-216 at the end of May, which outlines a slew denies CB News of protections to ensure public libraries offer a wide array of case review books, movies, magazines and Abby Harrison Times Staff Writer
The Crested Butte News’ legal battle to ensure that libraries don’t shield users in a way that damages public transparency has come to an end. At the end of May, state legislators passed a new law codifying that users can’t request that books be
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more. It includes provisions that address the central concern in Crested Butte News’ Editor Mark Reaman’s lawsuit against Drew Brookhart, the executive director of the Gunnison County Public Library. Under the new law, the identities of people who request books be removed from the shelves are Libraries A9
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