Casino development has been talked about in Glenwood Springs, Snowmass Village and is happening out in Dinosaur.
Maybe, because Steamboat Springs is rapidly becoming a better revenue generating ski destination than Aspen...the Crown Family will finally give serious consideration to the Snowmass Village concept.
They even have the shell already in place. Base Village.
Matt Stensland:
"Steamboat Springs — Steamboat Springs Olympian Johnny Spillane and four local business partners are exploring the viability of building a casino, hotel and entertainment venue on land near Yampa Valley Regional Airport.
The partnership faces many hurdles along the way, including winning the support of surrounding communities, finding an American Indian tribe to work with, jumping through the federal regulatory hoops and getting approval from the governor.
“We’re still definitely in the process of gathering information,” said Steve Hofman, one of the group’s partners. “If we reach the point that we say that the project’s not viable, we’ll say that.”
Spillane discussed the idea Thursday with Hofman, a Steamboat resident who spent much of his career in Washington, D.C., and was a U.S. assistant secretary of labor under former President George H. W. Bush.
Meetings have been held with business leaders and council members in Hayden, Craig and Steamboat, with the goal of soliciting feedback before plans went “too far down the road,” Spillane said.
“We’re going out of our way to do this slowly and to do this right,” he said...."
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