Winter Park Ski Village - Gearing Up For Ski Season

The president of Winterpark Resort discussedwishful thinking. There are no plans for next phase
what Winter Park Resort is doing about treeof real estate construction.
mitigation. Very long discussion and intricate mapsThe Winter park ski train closed this past spring
to show how they have done mitigation on 400when it was sold to a Canadian company.
acres with 1,000 to go but they admit allWinterpark is in talks with Iowa Pacific Railroads,
lodge-pole will be lost and the Resort slopes willUnion Pacific and Amtrak to start up a new Ski
look very different in many areas over the nextTrain from Denver. It would have modern cars,
5 years. You may see areas roped off todouble the amount of capacity. It would leave
encourage growth of new trees/aspens. Nosomewhere else than Union Station since it is
replanting going on as lodge pole pine regeneratesunder construction for next 5 years. They will
and brings Aspen.know more in next 30 days.
Residential Real Estate had 30 units to sell inAn up date to the ski train is Amtrack and Iowa
Founder's Pointe and Fraser Crossing, sold 14 outPacific Railroad are now in court fighting about an
of the 15 first half offering and the next 15 will goagreement that they had with Iowa Pacific using
on the market in the Fall of this year. He gaveAmtrack personnel to run Iowa Pacific trains. So
the same line that Intrawest gave in the email tothe Ski Train is on hold for now until the next
all of us about the sales - that it will help thecourt date in January.
market in the long run to get these out of theirCome see what all the buzz is about up in WP in
inventory. Personally, I wish they would just saythe Colorado Rockies at the WP Village.
that their company needed cash, but that's