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17 Jan 2009

Vail Going Green

posted by Rex Manz on 17 January 2009

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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05 Nov 2008

Vail - King Of The Hill

posted by Rex Manz on 05 November 2008

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 [...]

28 Oct 2008

So Many Colorado Ski Resorts So Little Time

posted by Rex Manz on 28 October 2008

If you are visiting this blog, chances are that you have visited at least one of the eleven major Colorado ski resorts.  Very few people get around to visit all of them.  I have as part of my business.  Not only have I visited them all in the winter, but in the summer and fall as [...]

06 Oct 2008

Vail Pre-Season Ticket Sales & Bookings

posted by Rex Manz on 06 October 2008

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.
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01 Sep 2008

Eagle County Colorado Green Construction

posted by Rex Manz on 01 September 2008

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 [...]