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Town of Vail officials have been working for more than a year on a plan for alternatives to the controversial Booth Heights workforce housing project, a complicated idea. Things have become more complicated in the last few months.
In December, Vail Resorts “paused” its participation in three-way talks which included the town, the resort company and Triumph Development to find alternatives to Booth Heights. That announcement roughly coincided with Triumph canceling its purchase contract for the 23-acre parcel in East Vail.
In January, Vail Resorts Vice President of Mountain Planning Kyle Griffith in a letter to town officials stated the company’s intent to develop housing on the site.
A recent Vail Resorts’ letter to town of Vail officials asserts that the company still wants to build housing on the controversial Booth Heights Parcel.
Vail Resorts and the town of Vail have very different opinions of the future of the Booth Heights property in East Vail.
In a pair of letters, both dated Jan. 18, the company and the town have laid out those different opinions about the future of workforce housing in town.
In the letter from the company, Vail Resorts Vice President of Mountain Planning Kyle Griffith states that the company still wants to build housing on the 23.3-acre site in addition to other housing efforts in town. Vail Town Manager Scott Robson’s reply letter states that the town wants alternatives instead of Booth Heights, and wants to obtain the property for preservation.