{"id":2452515,"date":"2019-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318144"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:00:00","slug":"business-monday-briefs-snow-lodge-opens-at-aspen-mountain-the-agency-opens-aspen-office-langley-mercatoris-part-of-firm-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/business-monday-briefs-snow-lodge-opens-at-aspen-mountain-the-agency-opens-aspen-office-langley-mercatoris-part-of-firm-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Monday Briefs: Snow Lodge opens at Aspen Mountain; The Agency opens Aspen office; Langley, Mercatoris part of firm expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">The Snow Lodge opens at base of Aspen Mountain<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The latest tenant of a high-profile location at the base of Aspen Mountain will have a focus on music, food, fashion and art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">So says a news release touting The Snow Lodge, which opens Monday and is located in the former Shlomo\u2019s restaurant space at 501 E. Dean St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cThe fabulous Surf Lodge is opening its second permanent location, The Snow Lodge in Aspen,\u201d said the release. \u201cAs with the original Surf Lodge, Aspen\u2019s Snow Lodge will feature a locally sourced menu, craft cocktails, The Famous Surf Lodge Concert Series and world class DJ\u2019s. Also featured will be art, fashion, wellness and chef collaborations with partners from around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Leading the operation is Jayma Cardoso, the founder and creative director of The Surf Lodge in Montauk, New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Cardoso plans to \u201cscope out the best local talent in music, art, fashion and food in order to make Aspen\u2019s Snow Lodge as true to the West and the amazing culture of Aspen as the Surf Lodge is organic to Montauk,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Its chef, Robert Seiber, also \u201cis currently in Aspen and around the Colorado area scoping out the best locally grown and farmed fruits and vegetables and meats just as he forages around Long Island for the best locally sourced fish, and shellfish and produce,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Chef Sean Olowich will serve as the Aspen operation\u2019s culinary director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The Snow Lodge, which will be open through April, also will partner with Belly Up on the Winter Music Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">The Agency opens Aspen office<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Beverly Hills-based real estate brokerage and lifestyle company The Agency has announced the opening of its first Aspen office, which will be led by Heather Sinclair and Lisa Hatem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cAspen has always been a part of our strategic growth plan and remains a sought-after destination for many of our clients,\u201d said Mauricio Umansky, CEO and Founder of The Agency. \u201cPartnering with Heather and Lisa to service Aspen and its increasing number of luxury buyers, sellers and renters will be an exciting chapter for our company as we continue to expand The Agency\u2019s presence around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Sinclair has more than two decades of real estate experience, having worked at Dancing Bear Aspen, for example. She attended Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Hatem led sales at various high-profile properties including The Residences at Little Nell and the Montage Residences Kapalua Bay in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The Agency Aspen office is located at 205 S. Mill St., No. 110.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">Langley, Mercatoris part of firm launch<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Slifer Smith &amp; Frampton Real Estate has launched SSF Commercial\/ Entrepreneurial Real Estate in the Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The SSF Commerical\/Entrepreneurial team will be lead by two longtime local brokers, Mike Mercatoris and Bob Langley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">\u201cI\u2019ve been on both sides of the table having signed dozens of leases for my own businesses and involved with negotiating at least 50-plus leases for others,\u201d said Mercatoris, who has operated such local restaurants Zheng Asian Bistro, GRIND and the Riviera Supper Club, as well as a hospitality business and a consulting firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Langley has nearly three decades of experience as a real estate broker, specializing commercial\/investment\/development from Aspen to Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Earlier this year, SSF moved to the Roaring Fork Valley with the acquisition of independent property brokerage firm Palladium Properties, founded by Krista Klees, who is now executive vice president of the Roaring Fork Valley division of SSF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">SSF Commercial\/ Entrepreneurial Real Estate is located in the Coventure office space on Main Street in Carbondale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssfcommercial.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ssfcommercial.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">Send business announcements and news items to <a href=\"mailto:rcarroll@aspetimes.com\">rcarroll@aspetimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/business-monday-briefs-snow-lodge-opens-at-aspen-mountain-the-agency-opens-aspen-office-langley-mercatoris-part-of-firm-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snow Lodge opens at base of Aspen Mountain The latest tenant of a high-profile location at the base of Aspen Mountain will have a focus on music, food, fashion and art. So says a news release touting The Snow Lodge, which opens Monday and is located in the former Shlomo\u2019s restaurant space at 501 [&hellip;]<\/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-2452515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 01:00:58","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&#039;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\/2452515","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=2452515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}