Photo from Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate
Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate announced that it is restructuring its organization to provide better service to its customers. The change means the company will have four market presidents for the following areas: Denver, Summit County, Eagle County and the Roaring Fork Valley.
Earlier this week, Chris Lankhorst was promoted to market president of the Summit County region. According to a news release, Lankhorst has been a top producer in Summit County and “has many years of leadership experience as the branch broker in the company’s Keystone and Breckenridge offices.”
The real estate company has 33 offices, including five in Summit County. According to Slifer Smith & Frampton’s first real estate agent, Rod Slifer, the company has grown so much and covers such a wide berth that it needs more focused leadership.
Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate, a boutique brokerage specializing in vacation homes throughout Colorado’s mountain resort towns, is now branching out into the Denver market with a new office.
The brokerage, which currently has over 250 agents and 100 support staff serving the Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone communities, has previously managed sales in the city through its parent company, East West Partners. The latest move, which includes a downtown office and plans to hire at least 10 new brokers this year, is an effort to expand its presence in the city.
A model of the Denver skyline seen in the new Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate Office. Britt Chester | Inman.
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Sheika Gramshammer and her husband, Pepi, shared the Vail Valley Citizen of the Year honor in 1989.
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For her dynamic and selfless contributions to the community, Sheika Gramshammer has been named the 2021 Vail Valley Citizen of the Year. The honor has been handed out since 1981 to deserving citizens who have provided broad support, vision, and leadership to the betterment of the community and its many nonprofit organizations.
Gramshammer was a co-recipient of the award with her husband Pepi in 1989, the year that she and her husband helped play an instrumental role in bringing the first of three Alpine World Ski Championships to Vail and Beaver Creek. In 1989, however, Sheika was just getting started. Since then she has provided philanthropic vision and community spirit enough for two lifetimes.
Beth Slifer
Beth Slifer has been invested in building Vail’s business since shortly after she arrived in the 1980s. Now it’s someone else’s turn.
Slifer this year declined to seek another term on the Vail Local Marketing District Advisory Council. That group is responsible for spending about $3 million in revenue collected through a dedicated lodging tax.
Slifer has been on that council since its inception, and has been the board’s chairperson the entire time. After 21 years, she thought it was time to step away.
The Vail Town Council at its Dec. 15 meeting passed a proclamation recognizing Slifer’s years of dedication to her adopted home town.