{"id":2451990,"date":"2019-12-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=317337"},"modified":"2019-12-08T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:00:00","slug":"the-collective-debuts-finished-building-snowmass-base-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-collective-debuts-finished-building-snowmass-base-village\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collective debuts finished building Snowmass Base Village"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kids play in the ball pool surrounded by artwork by Chad Bolsinger during the grand opening of The Collective and MixSix in Snowmass on Saturday, December 7, 2019. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong>
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About a year ago, The Collective building in Snowmass Base Village opened its doors to the public as a shell of community space with affordable programming and activities.<\/p>\n

About a year later Saturday, that shell\u2019s completed build-out was presented to hundreds of locals and visitors who poured in to fully experience The Collective for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to get this open; a lot of work by a lot of people was put in to get it here,\u201d said Charlie Singer, East West Partners project manager of The Collective, on Saturday. \u201cThis building is for the community. \u2026 Our hope is that anyone in the Roaring Fork Valley will have a reason to want to come here.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a few short speeches and a snip of a large, red ribbon stretched across the finished Base Village building, the public took in a free dinner at mix6 \u2014 the fast-casual nutritarian eatery by longtime local chef Martin Oswald \u2014 and drinks at the moxiBar, as well as immersive art and gaming experience of the downstairs game lounge.<\/p>\n

A long, seemingly never-ending line for the mix6 dinner wound around the first floor for several hours as people waited to pick four or six foods from 12 options, including broccoli, mac and cheese, sauteed greens, tofu, chicken, steak and squash.<\/p>\n

According to Martin Oswald, his staff served more than 1,000 people Saturday and he felt it was the most successful restaurant opening he\u2019s ever had.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was so much collective effort that went into this unlike other towns I\u2019ve been in,\u201d Oswald said of The Collective and all its offerings Saturday, highlighting the efforts of town government, tourism, Snowmass Base Village developers and the building\u2019s contractors.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people have grand visions and great ideas, but very few people manage to follow through. Here, persistence paid off and the community really came together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of eating self-mixed meals and drinking things like gluhwein and hot chocolate, people also tested out the various games and interactive art pieces in The Collective game lounge.<\/p>\n

Families faced off at the eight-person fusbol table, kids and adults swam through the Ziegler Reservoir-inspired ball pool, and many tried to imprint their bodies onto the life-sized, 3D pin art frame.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this place is sick, it\u2019s so cool,\u201d said Michael Quintanilla, 14, as he set up the lounge\u2019s pool table for a game with his friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love all of the graffiti, the art and the pool balls,\u201d Sheldon Sims, 14, added. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the building from the outside and heard some things about it from my aunt, who is the bar manager, but I never knew it was going to be like this. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the heels of Saturday\u2019s grand opening, The Collective building is set to host Snowmass Casino Night on Friday, a benefit for the Little Red School House, and to be a part of the Snowmassive Celebration from Friday through Sunday, which recognizes the opening of both the community building and the One Snowmass buildings, coinciding with Aspen Skiing Co.\u2019s Passapalooza weekend.<\/p>\n

The Collective is now open from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily<\/p>\n

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

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kids play in the ball pool surrounded by artwork by Chad Bolsinger during the grand opening of The Collective and MixSix in Snowmass on Saturday, December 7, 2019. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times About a year ago, The Collective building in Snowmass Base Village opened its doors to the public as a shell […]<\/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":["post-2451990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 03:21:55","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\/2451990","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=2451990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}