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The Westin in Snowmass Village, seen here in May 2020, sold this week as part of a $70 million deal. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Investors who bought the Westin Snowmass Resort and other properties in Snowmass Village this week for $70 million plan to make the 254-guestroom property a member of Marriott’s Autograph Collection, according to a firm involved in the deal.
The sale of the Westin, the 151-room Wildwood Snowmass lodge and the18,000-square-foot Snowmass Conference Center was documented in a single transaction filed Wednesday in the Pitkin County Clerk & Recorder’s Office.
The sellers were Starwood Capital Group and Wasserman Real Estate, which under the entity Silvertree Propco LLC bought the same properties for $42 million in June 2011 from the Burwell family of Minnesota. The next year they spent $55 million
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David E. Stapleton stands atop Aspen Mountain in 2019. (Courtesy photo)
As a native of Aspen and from a family whose ancestors were some of the first miners to come over Independence Pass, David E. Stapleton had a legacy to follow. He had no trouble doing that, and even elevated it for generations to come.
Stapleton died Thursday afternoon from complications due to COVID-19, his sons said. He was 86.
After decades of service to the Aspen community, the country with his time in the Army and for local and World Cup ski racers, Stapleton was honored through the years with inductions to halls of fame for his tireless work and the ways he helped shape Aspen and the international ski scene.