Vail officials aren’t yet done with approvals to move the Children’s Garden of Learning
, but the clock is ticking.
The Vail Town Council on Jan. 19 approved spending $760,000 for a new, modular facility to be located on the southeast corner of the Lionshead parking structure. That’s the current site of the town’s parking area for charter buses and RVs.
The Children’s Garden now sits on town-owned land just east of the Middle Creek Village apartments. That’s been identified as the best site for new workforce housing in town. The idea to use the Middle Creek lot for housing sprung from a Vail Town Council initiative to replace the need for housing at Booth Heights in East Vail. That idea is currently the topic of a dispute between the town and Vail Resorts, which owns the East Vail site.
Council could vote Jan. 19 on predevelopment agreement
Scott N. Miller
This artist’s rendering shows a proposed workforce housing project to the right of the existing Middle Creek Village apartments.
Special to the Daily
Pieces may be falling into place to avoid the prospect of building workforce housing on the Booth Heights site in East Vail.
Vail Town Manager Scott Robson Tuesday announced that the Vail Town Council on Jan. 19 will get its first public look at a predevelopment agreement with Triumph Development to build housing on a town-owned site just east of the the Middle Creek Village apartments. That site is on the north side of Interstate 70, near the main Vail interchange.