Ted Guy stands in unit 101 at his eight-unit property located at 210 W. Main St. in Aspen on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
A second floor unit at 210 W. Main St. includes a private balcony, two bedrooms and a washer and dryer in Aspen on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Units are for sale in the affordable housing complex located at 210 W. Main St. in Aspen on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
A view of Aspen Mountain is offered on a private deck off of a first floor unit at 210 W. Main St. in Aspen on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
What could have become yet another multimillion-dollar single-family house on a historic Aspen lot will instead become the home of five local families, thanks to a marketplace that makes it worthwhile for a developer to build subsidized workforce housing.
It’s a project that the previous longtime property owner, the late Aspen Times columnist Su Lum, would most likely approve of. that she lived in at 1020 E. Cooper Ave. will be preserved as a historic asset and converted into two of five proposed housing units.
The two- and three-bedroom condos will be sold to local employers to rent to their employees, according to the project’s developer, Jim DeFrancia.