This year Historic Preservation Commission will honor the Wheeler Opera House. The Wheeler Opera House is a three-story theater building with additional commercial space constructed in 1889, blending the Italianate and Romanesque Revival architectural styles.
You are probably used to scaffolding surrounding Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House so don’t be surprised when it goes back up this week so construction crews can finish a multi-year exterior masonry project.
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A man utilizes the pedestrian access while the Wheeler Opera House is under construction in downtown Aspen on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
The city of Aspen is forgiving nearly $200,000 in rent for two of its tenants that have been living under scaffolding at the Wheeler Opera House for months and therefore have not paid their landlord for nearly a year.
Aspen City Council agreed earlier this month to relieve Aspen Public House, a bar and restaurant, and Valley Fine Arts, an art gallery, from paying rent through at least June.
That’s when the scaffolding and the impacts of a nearly yearlong renovation of the historic building’s sandstone facade will be completed.