{"id":2449539,"date":"2019-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=313874"},"modified":"2019-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T06:00:00","slug":"downtown-aspen-development-to-reach-a-fever-pitch-in-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/downtown-aspen-development-to-reach-a-fever-pitch-in-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Aspen development to reach a fever pitch in \u201820"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mill Street pedestrian mall in Aspen on a winter day.<\/strong>
Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Five private redevelopment projects totaling roughly 40,000 square feet on downtown Aspen\u2019s pedestrian malls are in the cue and will begin in the next year.<\/p>\n

With that significant amount of development on the horizon, city officials are attempting to coordinate an overhaul of the mall\u2019s brick surface and the infrastructure underneath.<\/p>\n

Aspen City Council \u2014 with some of its members hesitant to begin such a massive and expensive project \u2014 agreed last week<\/a> to move toward schematic design in order to give landowners a guide to development.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to partner with the private projects as they go forward rather than having to do work after the fact is really kind of a big issue we are facing in a lot of departments right now,\u201d Michelle Bonfils Thibeault, the city\u2019s project manager, told council at a Sept. 24 work session<\/a>. \u201cThe imminent issue is there are six giant land use applications for redeveloping buildings on probably almost three quarters of what we\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd coordinating those efforts with the infrastructure, with replacing the bricks, with the grading, without schematic design in place for the developers to come back to, we are at risk of having the new buildings come in at different grades, not meeting ADA and having a lot of backfill to come back to.\u201d<\/p>\n

City officials for a few years<\/a> have been grappling with how to phase and approach the mall project, since their surface is more than 40 years old and some of the underground infrastructure hasn\u2019t been touched in six decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons we got into this was there were a lot of buildings bought and sold and development seemed to be imminent but it ended up stalling,\u201d Councilwoman Ann Mullins said. \u201cWe wanted to make sure these developers contribute financially.\u201d<\/p>\n

Developer Mark Hunt has said he plans to begin construction in the spring on at least three properties on the malls \u2014 305 S. Mill St., 434 E. Cooper Ave. and 414-422 E. Cooper Ave.<\/p>\n

One block over, separate redevelopments also are planned for 411 E. Hyman Ave. and 420 E. Hyman Ave.<\/p>\n

Hunt\u2019s projects include redeveloping the current restaurant space where Mr. Grey\u2019s is located, and on Cooper Avenue, where half of the block will see construction.<\/p>\n

Restoration Hardware is reported to be the anchor tenant in a redeveloped Bidwell building on the corner of Cooper Avenue and Galena Street.<\/p>\n

Next to that project, a new jazz center for Jazz Aspen Snowmass will be built in the buildings on either side of the Red Onion.<\/p>\n

A California-based ownership group plans to redevelop 420 E. Hyman Ave. with a third-floor penthouse, along with retail space and affordable housing.<\/p>\n

Tenants have moved out<\/a> of the existing building in anticipation of development.<\/p>\n

Finally, the building next to New York Pizza is slated for redevelopment of the commercial retail space.<\/p>\n

Design Workshop, the planning and landscape architecture firm hired by the city to lead the mall project, will bring schematic design for the mall project to council for further review in the coming months.<\/p>\n

csackariason@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mill Street pedestrian mall in Aspen on a winter day.Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times file photo Five private redevelopment projects totaling roughly 40,000 square feet on downtown Aspen\u2019s pedestrian malls are in the cue and will begin in the next year. With that significant amount of development on the horizon, city officials are attempting to coordinate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 20:01:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}