Vail Valley Foundation
The Vail Valley Foundation was created in 1981 for the purpose of benefiting the community through the organization of cultural, artistic, educational, historic and athletic performances, events and attractions. The VVF is a non-profit which raises and distributes funds for these charitable purposes.
VVF’s annual signature events include the AEI World Forum, the Vail International Dance Festival, the [...]
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Vail Going Green
A community-wide process named Vail 20/20 identified the environment as among the citizens’ top priorities. The Town of Vail has begun to respond in designing a program to reduce solid waste by 20% in 10-years and create a green building code in the spirit of the national Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
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Vail - King Of The Hill
Unlike many of Colorado’s ski towns, Vail did not begin as an 1880’s brawling mining town. Charlie Vail, a Colorado state highway engineer, oversaw the construction of Hwy 6 over the Continental Divide in 1940. The highway was named Vail Pass in his honor. When World War ll ski paratrooper Pete Seibert and local rancher [...]
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Vail Pre-Season Ticket Sales & Bookings
Vail Resorts Inc. announced that pre-season ticket sales and lodging bookings are running below expectations. Clearly the turmoil in the financial markets is having an impact. What is unclear is whether this pre-season reduction is indicative of the future and will be permanent or merely a deferral pending clarity in the economic picture.
Rex Manz is [...]
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Eagle County Regional Airport
The Eagle County Regional Airport, serving the Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts, began a project to lengthen its sole-runway by 1,000 feet in 2006. It was scheduled for completion this summer, but high fuel and concrete costs have delayed the project until probably next summer. The project was undertaken to allow fully-loaded commercial aircraft [...]
Eagle County Colorado Green Construction
Outside of the ski resorts of Vail Colorado and Beaver Creek Colorado you will find the unincorporated area of Eagle County Colorado. Longing for more of a mountain ranch experience, more and more people are building in this area within close proximity of expensive ski resort real estate.
Eagle County has created both requrements and incentives under [...]
