Name-Brand Hotel In Snowmass’s Future

September 30th, 2007 at 11:48am Post Staff 3

SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–The Town of Snomass Village is going to get its name-brand hotel after all.

Pat Smith–president of Related Westpac, the developer of Base Village–said on the “Con Games with Michael Conniff” radio show on KNFO radio (106.1 FM) that Snowmass would in fact see a chain hotel like Marriot or Westin in the conference hotel facility planned for the town. The conference space in the hotel in the West Village, AKA the Snowmass Mall, will complement the Viceroy Hotel approved for Base Village.

The possibility of a Westin is particularly unexpected after Related Westpac gained approval for a Kor Hotel Group Viceroy  instead of the promised 229-bed Westin for Base Village. The Viceroy will have 256 beds.

“In my 35 years of development experience,” Smith told Steve Allredge, “this is the most arduous, complicated and strenuous negotiation that I’ve ever been through. At the end of the day, we have a win-win situation. Now, we can use this momentum to achieve the community’s goal of accelerating the construction at Base Village to compress the timeframe for completion.”

The West Village hotel and conference center will have a promised 10,000 square feet of conference space by 2017–or Related Westpac will have to pay Snowmass an $8 million penalty.

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