The new owner of the Aspen Athletic Club building downtown apparently not only likes to dream big, but to spend big also. A limited liability company called Dream Big or Don’t Dream at All Baby dropped $33 million on the 720 E. Hyman Ave. building that hit the market in early March for $29.95 million.
Embattled Burlingame Ranch resident Lee Mulcahy this week suffered another blow in his years-long battle with the Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority as the agency now owns the home he is living in, and an eviction is pending.
A court-appointed receiver acting on behalf of a defiant Mulcahy closed on the property at 53 Forge Road and sold it to APCHA for $990,558.20 on Wednesday.
Mulcahy and his 85-year-old mother, Sandy, have repeatedly stated that they will not leave the deed-restricted home they built, and violence will ensue if forced.
“I will defend liberty and freedom with my life,” he said Thursday, while adding there is ongoing litigation, his case is on appeal and he is filing an emergency motion to the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an eventual eviction.