Jul 21, 2008 — The typical coffee-house story is as full of dark tannins as the richest of French roasts – but not in the Vail Village, where the relationship between Covered Bridge Coffee and its chain-store rival is cool as an iced latte.

"We actually have a good relationships with that Starbucks," said Covered Bridge Coffee co-owner Kim Hause, who shares ownership...

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Jul 17, 2008 — For years ski-area operators and Forest Service officials who manage he public lands the resorts lease have been battling not only the largest and most devastating mountain pine beetle epidemic in the state’s history, but also the perception they were doing very little to combat it.

That should start to change in the coming year as foresters in the...

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Jul 12, 2008 — Todd Goulding, who most recently hails from Vail Resorts Development Company and was spearheading one of the largest projects under construction in the Vail Valley – the Ritz-Carlton Club & Residences – has been named Senior Project Manager for Vail Capital Partners, Inc.

Vail Capital Partners (VCP) is the Vail Valley private-equity firm that...

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Jul 2, 2008 — A recommendation that would add as many as 550 parking spaces to Vail's current inventory of 2,815 spaces for the winter season will continue to be explored following unanimous approval by the Vail Town Council. The recommendation was made by the Vail Parking Task Force and was presented to the Town Council at its regular evening meeting on July 1.

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Jun 17, 2008 — There was once “Vans to Vail,” now it’s simply vans – owned by Vail.

The once nascent business of portaging Vail visitors from Denver or Eagle Airports to their comfy mountain chateaus has become big business – so big that Vail Resorts has stepped in to buy up the dominant van transport company in Eagle County.

The...

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Jun 15, 2008 — Rail experts at an I-70 Coalition meeting at Copper Mountain Thursday expressed doubt any federal dollars would ever become available for a fixed guide-way rail system along the state's busiest east-west highway connecting Denver and the Front Range to the state's mountain resorts.

Mass transit, especially some type of mountain rail system, is back on the...

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Jun 12, 2008 — It’s a pretty simple equation, really: record snow equals near-record skier numbers in Colorado.

That was the big announcement Thursday at the annual Colorado Ski Country USA meeting in Crested Butte, where the trade association representing the state’s 26 ski resorts crowed about the 12,535,913 skier days during the 2007-08 season, second only to...

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Jun 9, 2008 — Good timing has been a hallmark of Jim Pavelich's career in newspaper publishing. He was in the right place at the right time when he launched the Vail Daily in 1981, selling the paper and its sister publication, the Summit Daily News, for an estimated $6 million to $8 million 12 years later.

Then Pavelich, a University of Colorado business school graduate...

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May 12, 2008 — With still more than three months to go until opening, the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa announced last week that more than 65 percent of its luxury residences have been sold.

Situated on the banks of the Eagle River at the base of Beaver Creek Resort, the Westin Riverfront includes 210 wholly owned residences ranging in size from studios to three-bedrooms,...

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Apr 19, 2008 — Some officials here in the heart of ski country want to re-brand the state's third busiest airport so that out-of-state and international visitors aren't terrified by the prospect of landing on a dusty mountain airstrip in a blinding snowstorm

They want travelers to know that the Vail Valley's airport is state-of-the-art and one of the best ways to get to...

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