May Selby’s dispatch from an action-packed Aspen from tree lightings at hotels to Wyclef at Belly Up to seasonal menus and prix fixe dinners at restaurants to retail pop-up shops and capsule collection drops.
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Chase Beck has fielded dozens of calls like this in the past few months.
“They say ‘I just had the floor taken out from under me. I’ve been living here for years. I need to move out in 30 days and I’ve got nowhere to go. Can you help?’” Beck says.
The waiting list at his family’s All Valley Storage in Frisco is long, same as their Breckenridge facility.
“I feel their pain and I really do try to prioritize the locals, especially if they are teachers or essential workers, you know,” Beck says. “I have five public school teachers who are renting units from me because they live in their vehicle and their storage unit is their closet. I don’t want to chase them out of the county any more than they are already being chased out.”
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The Aspen Chamber Resort Association last week announced new hires and a reorganization of its membership department.
Sarah Reynolds Lasser Sr., director of Business Development, will expand her focus to the broader business community overseeing membership initiatives and group sales. Alycin Bektesh has been hired as communications manager, and Mackenzie Sexton has been hired as program assistant.
Lasser has worked at ACRA for 10 years, selling Aspen as a meeting and event destination. She managed special projects for ACRA including the Aspen Snowmass Arts & Culture Impact Study and ACRA’s ongoing relationship with Aspen Sister Cities. In 2020, she was recognized by Smart Meetings as a “Smart Women in Meetings Stellar Performer” and received special recognition on behalf of ACRA as the Destination Colorado Member of the Year.