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Global Warming and Environment Impacts the Ski Industry
Property Taxes and Home Owners
Global Warming and Environment Impact the Ski Industry
MAY 12, 2009 Tiny bird has big presence, Bicknell's thrush causes major stir for ski industry By ALAN WECHSLER, Staff writer
Meet the Bicknell's thrush. It could be the state's most powerful bird. Politically speaking, that is. Sizewise, it's rather diminutive — an adult weighs less than an ounce. It's a shy, timid bird. It lacks the majesty of the bald eagle, the attack power of the peregrine falcon, the melancholic call of the loon. But the tiny thrush has done something those other avian favorites haven't: It stopped a ski area in its tracks. (full story)
JAN 22, 2008 NY TIMES As Alps Warm, a Snow-Deprived Ski Resort Sells for $1
Spring 2007 Union of Concerned Scientists: Will the Northeast be the New Dixie?
Photo credit: Mark McCarroll 2008 - Climate Change Seminar Jan 30, 2008, Stony Kill Farm
OCT 2007 Mountain News - Resort and Workers Industry Report
Hotel and Motel Management article on labor practices
JAN 17, 2008 Lassen Resort Property Facing Foreclosure
SEP 10, 2007 The New Money Pit
AUG 2007 Consumers: Beware the Time Share! Part One
NYS Attorney General - Before You Buy a Timeshare
Property Taxes and Home Owners
FEB 12, 2008 AP Subsidies help some live in resort towns
FEB 7 2008 Vail Daily $1 Million is Affordable in Vail
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JAN 17, 2008 Wealthy may be next in line in home crisis
DEC 24, 2007 States eye ways to rein in property tax
Aurora snaps up water coveted by Ginn Company for private ski resort
7/14/09 by David O. Williams, Colorado Independent
A troubled private ski and golf development near the old railroad town of Minturn off the backside of Vail Mountain was dealt another blow late Monday when the Aurora City Council decided to purchase from Pueblo the Columbine Ditch north of Leadville.
Florida-based Ginn Company’s proposed Battle Mountain project, overwhelmingly approved for annexation by Minturn voters last year, planned to buy the water right for its private ski area, golf resort and 1,700 luxury homes high between Minturn and the old mining town of Red Cliff.
Now the resort, in no great hurry to turn dirt because of the moribund mountain real estate market, will have to look elsewhere for water. But there is some question about the viability of the project anyway given the company’s financial woes in Florida, including the bankruptcy of some of its golf resorts, and the spectacular failure of the only other private ski club in the nation, the Yellowstone Club near Big Sky, Mont.
Both Yellowstone and the Ginn Company are burdened by super-risky Credit Suisse loans handed out like candy during the height of the decade-plus mountain real estate boom.
APRIL 24, 2008 For Bronx Water Plant Being Built 10 Stories Down, a Towering Price Tag
MAR 4, 2009 DONNELLY, Idaho (AP) By Jessie L. Bonner Tamarack Resort closes; employees cut loose Three months after Marcos Salvador was hired to wash dishes at a swanky ski resort in the central Idaho mountains, he stood alongside Roseberry Road in the frigid cold and tried to hitch a ride to his last day of work. Salvador, a 24-year-old college student from Peru, was among an estimated 250 employees being let go as Tamarack closed down Wednesday after four years of operation. (full story)
MAR 2, 2008 Boston Globe - Number of casino jobs is disputed; 30,000 figure questioned
OCT 2006 Ski the East - 50k H2B workers in Limbo
JUNE 2005 NY Times - Fewer Visas, Fewer Workers
