Gunnison County has several big and expensive projects in the pipeline. He spent more than a decade on the board of We Dont Waste, which distributes unused food from city restaurants, schools and grocery stores to nonprofits and food pantries. He loves the idea of making a street about people, not cars. He has served on the Board of Directors of We Don't Waste and has been a board member and served as the President of the Crested Butte Land Trust. Still, they always call me back, unlike. I see a similar opportunity here in Crested Butte. I am sure no one, including the board, is happy with that much money in the bank but it is what it is. But what it can do costs more money and the expectations rise as the place becomes more and more polished. Today, it houses several stores. Rosemary Lane single-family homes are ready to go vertical in west Durango, One-of-a-kind snowboards to be auctioned for La Plata County Humane Society, Storms on radar well into next week in Southwest Colorado, The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. According to the Forbes real time net worth calculator, he has $4.4 billion in wealth as of this week where if I am reading this right, Tuesday morning he pulled in another $116 million before noon. And it makes sense that while to someone like me, spending tens of millions of dollars on property in the Gunnison Valley is wild, it wouldnt be for some people who on a good day makes eight figures (on paper anyway) before lunch. Walter is not on the Forbes list of the worlds billionaires. As the town studies whether that is too many, the emergency declaration will allow town leaders to suspend all license transfers for properties that change hands. ), Sure, he says, he wishes he had bought the Elk Avenue properties a decade ago, but right now there is an opportunity to make a difference., Ive been blessed to have been involved in a couple really iconic projects in Denver that really made a difference in the community, he says of his work renovating Larimer Square and Union Station. (Dean Krakel, Special to The Colorado Sun), How Denver is spending the $41M from the Broncos sale, started buying historic buildings on Elk Avenue, tables spilled into sidewalks and parking spots, (720) 263-2338 Call, text, Signal or WhatsApp, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. And Mark is probably busy gearing up for an end of the season run for a World Series ring with his Los Angeles Dodgers or working on his English accent so he sounds authentic when dealing with the Chelsea Football Club of which he is a part owner. Earlier this year, Mark Walter, the Chicago-based owner of the L.A. Dodgers who has had a vacation home in Crested Butte since 2009, started buying historic buildings on Elk Avenue. Oh wellIll keep throwing the offer out to Mr. Walter to see if he has 15 minutes to talk local restaurants, vacant land and buildings, future hotels and employee housing. On top of record-setting crowds this summer are the rippling impacts of the pandemic, which includes a sudden influx of new residents who are buying and moving into homes once rented by locals. The joke was that Crested Butte was the last great Colorado ski town, one that hadnt yet been bought up by even wealthier outsiders looking for a seasonal stay. Our founders have spent years working together as baristas and roasters. I totally agree. Earlier this month, Miami doctor Claudio Alvarez and his wife, Yvonne, unveiled possible ideas for 150 acres at the base of Snodgrass Mountain, where the Mueller family had sketched plans for a base village and ski area connected to Crested Butte Mountain Resort. Several people have asked me if Ive been watching the drama at the, A reason to rethink acceptance at the end of the road. One, until recently, housed the Montanya Distillery tasting room, which this month relocated to a newer building on Elk Avenue. Walter and his wife, Kimbra, have owned a relatively modest home in Mount Crested Butte since 2009. Something like this can really be a platform for philanthropic and other activities and community development and citizenship, which I think the world is in need of now, he said. In government, thats a good thing. The Forest Queen was among several properties in downtown Crested Butte bought recently by financier Mark Walter (Dean Krakel, Special to The Colorado Sun), How Denver is spending the $41M from the Broncos sale, a relatively modest home in Mount Crested Butte, told Crested Butte News editor Mark Reaman, (720) 263-2338 Call, text, Signal or WhatsApp, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. Thanks for taking note of my observations. Hes got a 25-acre lot in Gunnison where he is going through the approval process to build affordable workforce housing. I can tell you he is a guy with one of the great financial minds of our time, and he will help that team, the person said. So its always been pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of outsiders., But Walters investment may herald a wave of a new strain of outsiders. Hermanson spent a decade with the Crested Butte Land Trust, where he served as board president for three years. The final ordinance was one of the first truly bold attempts in Colorado to deal with short-term rentals. Im pretty sure whatever decisions he makes are going to include the calculus of how this place remains cool and soulful., Norton isnt saying that to disparage the other big investor, he says, its just that Hermanson has the long history that makes most of us believe hes going to nail it., And if he doesnt nail it on the first go, hell nail it on his second, he says. This includes directly interviewing sources and research / analysis of primary source documents. But they had no definitive place to go and so now they have a bunch of money in the bank and this year will pay back $1.7 million with no solid plan on when, how or where to build their new facility (see story on page 16). The blue collars cant really afford to buy a piece of free-market property in Crested Butte anymore. The investment group that has shepherded Sixth Street Station hopes the hotel and homes will be built, said Chris Kopf, the broker who sold the downtown project. (Stay tuned for more on that. They wont be celebrating another anniversary there. Im talking about the big bucks coming in and being discussed in both the private and public sectors. That happened a bit when Vail bought the resort, Kroft said of Vail Resorts 2018 purchase of Crested Butte Mountain Resort and three other ski areas from the Mueller familys Triple Peaks. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com, Report a paper delivery issue/suspend delivery. I could go on, but you probably get the idea. This year, using limited liability companies that are registered with the Colorado Secretary of State under his Chicago business address, he paid $1.55 million for the Forest Queen building on Elk, which was built in 1882 and is home to the Coal Creek Grill and an idled hotel. Through a spokesman, Walter declined to be interviewed for this article or to provide a detailed resume or other personal information. Hes acquired some of the oldest buildings in town.. He is a trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which oversees Guggenheim museums and art collections in New York, Italy and Spain. I dont think someone who made $116 million Tuesday morning (am I really reading that right?) . Walter is not the first wealthy financier to bet big in Gunnison County and downtown Crested Butte. In particular, the following paragraph drew my attention: I accept the changing community and truly enjoy the locals, second homeowners, lone eagles and tourists. You can read about it in the NY Times or the Atlantic. Personally, everyone says Mark Walter is a great down to earth guy who loves Crested Butte. You know something like 40% to 50% of the food we produce in this country is wasted? he says. The Sixth Street Station is a shovel-ready hotel, retail and residential project the town approved in 2017. Laughing at yourself helps too as does liking snow and not getting upset if you show up for lunch and see the staff went skiing instead of being open. He was always one of the smartest guys in class, plain and simple, and fairly quiet, said Sankot, who was on the golf team with Walter. The ride is speeding up as more people want to live in nice places like our valley. What is most meaningful, in my mind, is that this is a community and its really about the community, Hermanson says. Walter not only didnt raise rents, the tobbacconist said, he also paid some contractors who said they were owed money by the previous owner. Its been a tough year for buyers, and the sellers are in a good spot, Konsella said. He also purchased the Gunnison Savings and Loan Building at 501 Elk Ave, which is home to a bank, a spa and a tattoo shop. Walter spends a good bit of his off time with his wife and daughter in Crested Butte, where one of his limited liability companies in January paid $4 million for a 6,521-square-foot ski. Thanks again (especially for making me think and allowing me to fill up my editorial space this week). Considering his history of investments and the fact he is buying in Crested Butte at the height of the market, its safe to assume Walter is not bargain-hunting for a quick flip. Im the first to admit Ive gotten lucky here. He was bright, but he never lorded that over people.. Its not Walter or Bezos money but its more than most have in their savings account. Let me throw out a few concepts that probably wont diminish your concern and Ill use the universal you as opposed to addressing you specifically. As urbanites flee cities for mountain enclaves, many resort areas such as Telluride, Vail, Aspen and Crested Butte saw sales-dollar volume and home prices hit highs. Walter has said he is making a significant personal investment in the team, but neither he nor the Dodgers new ownership group Guggenheim Baseball Management has revealed the sources of purchase money in its all-cash bid of $2.15 billion, which topped others by about $500 million and was well above most estimates of the franchises worth. And let me be super clear I like and appreciate the people that sit on that board and those that work in the districts administrative offices. Turns out it's a man named Mark Walter. Billionaire has bought several restaurants, bars and shops on Elk Avenue, but hes not revealing details about his plan for the historic buildings. Ideally, we could have the conversation on the Silver Queen since the forecast is calling for a foot of fresh snow over the next week. It will be nice and relieve some pressure in the Paradise Park neighborhood so it is money well spentbut it is more money than would have been dreamed of for such a project say a decade ago. Few resorts can boast such world-class, varied terrain. Pike spent almost a decade renovating his Gunnison County properties, all of which support his high-end, 13-property global adventure travel company, Eleven Experience. First Ascent Coffee Roasters began as a cafe in an old miner's cabin on Crested Butte's historic Elk Avenue. Realtor Eric Roemer echoed the uneasy feeling: Nobody really knows what his game plan is., I have no idea what Mr. Walter is planning to do, writer and Gunnison County resident George Sibley said, and I dont think anyone else does eitherpossibly including Mr. Walter.. Crested Butte, like all resort communities in Colorados high country, had a record-setting year for real estate sales in 2020. So I havent sought publicity.. Perhaps its the level of acceptance that defines the tribe, so my wording in that editorial was probably not exactly spot on. Jeff Hermanson, who transformed Denvers Larimer Square and Union Station, has lived in Crested Butte for 48 years. He bought the historic Grubstake Building on Crested Buttes bustling Elk Avenue in 2011 for $766,700. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes, at the Oregonian in 2001 and at the Orange County Register in 1996, for investigations of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and of fertility fraud at UC Irvine. His most overtly public move came in 2012, when Walter joined forces with Magic Johnson and several other entertainment figures to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers for a record-breaking $2.15 billion. Hermanson actually worked in the kitchen in one of the buildings he just bought when he first arrived in town in the early 1970s, but back then it had a different name. I thought I had it bad waiting around for billionaire and major valley property owner Mark Walter to call me and share his ideas for our community the idea being that we could collaborate and disclose his future vision of Crested Butte and the East River Valley through the paper. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), The Forest Queen Hotel on Crested Buttes Elk Avenue has been a general store, bar, restaurant and hotel since its construction in 1881. High in . He created the first-ever national rating system for restaurants that buy from local providers and reduce waste. Crested Butte has one of the greatest streets in all of Colorado, if not the West, he says. It could mean volunteering or sharing professional experience with something like KBUT, the food pantry, Adaptive, the school of dance or one of the many grassroots environmental or stewardship organizations. Some came up and hugged him. Add that to what the town of Mt. Sign up for our daily email newsletter or to receive breaking news delivered to your inbox: Choose from several print and digital subscription packages, 2023 Durango Herald | But you never know, Kopf said. The school district is considering a $100 million expansion while the local Forest Service is getting ready to install a pay-to-play template for some areas around Crested Butte. And he loves CB for what it is, what we are. Proponents of both measures will need to make strong arguments and given the difficulties the fire district has had with things like inflation and volatile construction costs, financial accountability will have to be buttoned up with solid plans and definitive goals that make the future path crystal clear. I reached out to his local realtor to see if Mark would like to talk about his plans for the valley given his recent purchases and after she finished laughing she basically indicated I probably had a better chance of getting Donald Trump to chat with me about Almont. Copyright 2023 Crested Butte News, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Im thinking of the Gunnison Watershed School District and the Met Rec District. The Colorado Sun is a journalist-owned, award-winning news outlet based in Denver that strives to cover all of Colorado so that our state our community can better understand itself. He bought the historic Grubstake Building on Crested Buttes bustling Elk Avenue in 2011 for $766,700. It will be looking at opportunities to spend close to a million dollars a year. (The Forest Service rejected the ski area expansion in 2010. Ballantine Communications, Inc. Not everyone fits in here, so honestly, there is a clubby, or tribal element involved. Generally, being accepted as a deep part of the community and not just as a drop-in means earning communal respect as someone who appreciates Crested Butte for the common values it represents. But Sibley pointed out that Walter followed a long line of wealthy investors coming to Colorado. Jeff is pretty open about what he hopes to accomplish., The Colorado Sun jason@coloradosun.com He now owns a significant share of the town's business properties, plus a wild card or two elsewhere in the Upper Gunnison River valley. I suppose Jeff has a lot on his mind like how to maybe land on the moon in one of his phallic rockets. The Mark Walter Group and the town of Crested Butte have both been wildly supportive throughout this project. Make no mistake, both these guys have major bank so they might have other things on their mind than our piddly community here at the end of the road. The lesson Ive learned is that change is constant in our lives. For one, it means the floor for commercial prices, traditionally a dodgy investment in Crested Butte and the valley, has a gone up a level or two. We are just entering the election season so we can all expect to hear why we should vote to again raise our property taxes. In the same vein weve all experienced tourists who get pushback for say, not following the lift line protocol or running a stop sign at 25 mph. Unlike some others in his lofty economic orbit, namely current Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, Walter until recently was seldom in the news and apparently liked it that way. Its time for a change.. He thinks about doing things for other people, Lasorda said. And we've got a real severe affordable housing shortage here, so this eventually could exacerbate that problem as well.. The current short-term rental regulations and limitations came from a long, sometimes contentious citizen task force process that ended with no one being completely happy. The investment group that has shepherded Sixth Street Station hopes the hotel and homes will be built, said Chris Kopf, the broker who sold the downtown project. Morley was chief executive of Links Holdings, a company that dealt in mortgage assets, when he and Walter met in 1999. And the Princess building at 218 Elk, which hosts the Princess Wine Bar. The Chicago financier this year has quietly acquired six high-profile commercial properties, including the Almont Resort and several iconic buildings in downtown Crested Butte that are home to. So why is Hermanson buying now? Many locals, second homeowners and tourists Ive met quickly get this place and want to be part of the deeper community and not just skim on top of what they see as a weird but still undiscovered mountain town that offers investment opportunities. He has an emotional attachment and truly wants to protect the history and character of this place.. Being active in protecting the wild and Im talking about both the millions of acres of wilderness in the backyard and the hundreds of weirdly wild people in the front yard matters. Thats losing some of old school CB. Hermanson loved how dining spilled into streets during the pandemic. Some throw out the ol I spend a lot of money in this town, and you couldnt be here without me. We could. They have really helped educate me. The Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT) that brings in money for capital projects and open space is skyrocketing as it is up close to 70 percent over the previous year. Ive heard folks say, We've reached the point where the billionaires are pushing out the millionaires, Starr said, which a lot of us whove lived here for quite a while had hoped would never happen.. She is trying to figure out how to get the owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, to answer her about how to have his company not drop a ton of packages every day at the Crested Butte post office. Dana Crawford, the legendary developer who worked with Hermanson on Union Station, has purchased as many as 10 buildings in downtown Trinidad. Given the flurry of commercial real estate activity, the ride isnt stopping anytime soon. This story first appeared in The Outsider, the premium outdoor newsletter by Jason Blevins.In it, he covers the industry from the inside out, plus the fun side of being outdoors in our beautiful state. Walters buying spree in Crested Butte started in January, but no broker has seen the coattail investors who typically follow heavyweights like Walter. I really dont know what his plan is, but it could be exciting, Roemer said. Down valley, where the East River joins the Taylor River, Walter spent $6.3 million for Almont Resort, a 60-acre riverfront compound of cabins, homes and commercial buildings first established in 1893. The Good Food 100 celebrates restaurants and chefs that build a sustainable food economy, Hermanson says. We just cant keep up anymore, Hartigan says. Speaking of open minds Theres no harm in Crested Buttes effort to relook at its vacation rental policy and while its early in an extensive process, some good points were made at the first public meeting to consider not upending the policy in its entirety. This is very impressive considering we haven't hit the busy summer selling . Eric Roemer owned the Wooden Nickel for 40 years. Margins can shrink. Across Colorado, as restaurants opened with requirements to keep visitors well spaced out, tables spilled into sidewalks and parking spots. That made me laugh. Shes a kick-ass skier, he says. But Walters activity in Crested Butte has drawn lots of local attention among its population of about 4,700. Sean and Sarah Hartigan opened the Last Steep in 2000. In case Jeff is reading this, her number is 970-349-5338. The billionaire in question is investment banker Mark Walter. We still have projects in CB that were started then stopped during the downturn and financial crisis back in mid-2008 that have not yet been completed. But the scale of this was larger than what we have seen previously.. Im going to seize this opportunity.. He and some other billionaire type partners are on the verge of owning England's Chelsea Football Club for more than $3 billion. A lot of solutions to food and hunger can be done small and can be done locally. You know the old Aspen adage of the billionaires coming in and squeezing out the millionaires? Prior to that she spent 17 years in . Your letter has made me think about it. But a benefit of COVID is people really appreciate the remote mountain town of Crested Butte. Being open and accepting yourself goes a long way to being accepted. In Crested Butte, hed love to explore ways the town and Gunnison County can offer incentives to push developers toward reducing the housing deficit. He's obviously a busy guy and has more important things to do than set aside 20 minutes to talk to me about what might go in The Brick. It was built in the 1880s and has been a bank, drugstore and post office. Drop us a note at tips@coloradosun.com. All Rights Reserved. 1 seed in West, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Best coffee city in the world? Email: jason@coloradosun.com Twitter: @jasonblevins Copyright 2023 Crested Butte News, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lets see what all the data and the community opinion shows. A reason to rethink acceptance at the end of the road, The basic answer to your questions is, Heck if I know how to define acceptance here. Guggenheim Partners, his global investment firm, controls $250 billion in investments. Year-to-date, we have sold 65 home and condo properties valued at $32 million. The summer is just too busy and we are short-staffed and no one can find housing. Id be happy to help get the word out to the community. A lingering question for residents is what Walter will do with the undeveloped lot on the north edge of town, heading towards the ski slopes. Look, change is constant and money brings change. Hey, if you got it, spend it, with or without grants. Whether its been modified no one knows at this time. Tracy Sankot recalled Walter as low-key and easygoing when both attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids in the late 1970s. Bad journalistic decisions made by the West Virginia-based newspaper conglomerate that owns the Times and that apparently has no idea about local Rocky Mountain culture has destroyed the papers reputation. For the last chunk of those hes been in Denver and dashing down to Crested Butte on weekends. Its a long-term play for him, McElroy-Swan said. Several people have asked me if Ive been watching the drama at the Aspen Times. The former standard bearer for ski town newspapers has imploded so quickly and so badly this summer that no one would be surprised if it ceased to exist as much more than a thin pamphlet before the end of the year. Everyone coming here is initially welcomed (thats our business after all) but not everyone gains deep acceptance as part of the tribe. The mountain hamlet of Crested Butte, Colorado, covers less than a square mile and, at an elevation of nearly 9,000 feet, it is taller than it is wide. That makes acceptance deeper. An earlier version of this article said that Walter did not respond to comment. Those that push too hard for Crested Butte to change to make things easier by bringing to this valley the very things they left in the real world never get in too deep. The Grubstake housed a tea house, a cafe, an art gallery, and a fishing shop, which Walter has kept active. Theres an unspoken bond between those of us who choose this place. As more investors eye rising inflation and look to park their dollars in assets, Walton warned, there are not a lot of places left for them to go., Jeff is not someone swooping in and saying the right words. He was just a genuinely good guy at that time and you could tell he was destined for success. The $1.7 million theyll pay in interest and principal this year would have paid for a nice fourplex of workforce housing. Still, it seems the right thing to do. 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