The vote was preceded by two and a half years of planning and council meetings. Minturn, a sleepy former mining and railroad town long bypassed by Vail developers, bargained well. Ginn has pledged to:
- Build affordable housing for 50 percent of the resort's future employees
- Establish a scholarship fund for local kids
- Provide money for Minturn to buy U.S Forest Service land within the town's boundaries
- Clean up a toxic superfund site at a former mine nearby
- Build a recreation center and bike path
- Provide money for streets, sidewalks, lighting and water system upgrades
If additional approvals from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Environmental Protection Agency are obtained, the billion dollar project will proceed. Plans call for 1,200 acres of skiing, eight chair lifts, a gondola to link the base village to home sites and a golf course. The plan also involves construction of 1,700 luxury homes and condos worth an estimated $3.4 to $4 billion. Ginn reportedly purchased the land for $32.75 million.
Toby Tobin is a real estate commentator and Publisher of GoToby.com, the popular real estate news, information, and analysis website for the City of Palm Coast, Flagler County and Northeast Florida
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