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BY DUFFY HAYES
from Summit Daily News
March 13, 2006

BRECKENRIDGE — A modern, $17 million gondola to whisk skiers and riders to the base areas of Breckenridge Ski Resort has been on the town's wish list for more than 20 years. It seems Santa was listening this year.

Monday, resort operator Vail Resorts and the town of Breckenridge announced that construction of a four-stop, eight-passenger gondola would begin this spring, with a completion date estimated for this coming Christmas.

When finished, the gondola will carry up to 3,000 powderhounds per hour from the free skier parking lots, up through the tony Shock Hill neighborhood, and on to both the Peak 7 and Peak 8 base areas at the resort in seven-and-a-half minutes.

The idea of a gondola has been swirling around town for more than 20 years. Today, skiers and riders, if they want to park for free, are compelled to park well below the lifts, and hop shuttle buses for a winding trip up to the base areas of the resort.

But ideas are making their way from the drawing board to reality in fast fashion these days in Breckenridge. The gondola project is one of the last major steps toward implementing a comprehensive development and transportation plan formalized by the town and Vail Resorts in May 2002.

That plan included the Skyway Skiway ski-back project and the Mountain Thunder Lodge real estate development — both projects completed in the past year well ahead of schedule.

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BY DUFFY HAYES
from Summit Daily News
March 21, 2006

BRECKENRIDGE — Last week, Vail Resorts and the town of Breckenridge announced their plans to build a long-awaited gondola connecting Peaks 7 and 8 with the town below.

This week, Vail announced that the project to develop the area around the gondola stop at Peak 7 is also finally under way.

"Between the gondola announcement and this (news), the past week or two has been great for Breckenridge," said Alex Iskenderian, vice-president of development for Vail Resorts Development Company (VRDC).

"We're really taking Breckenridge real estate to a new level with this project," Iskenderian said.

VRDC and locally owned Grand Timber Development Company are partners on the project to develop the new base area at Peak 7. Plans call for 44 whole ownership condominiums developed by VRDC and a 114-unit fractional ownership facility developed by Grand Timber.

Work began last week clearing trees in the Cucumber Gulch area, so that County Road 3 (which winds from the top of the Peak 8 base area, past the popular Peaks Trail trailhead, and descends back to town) can be moved down the hillside lower than it currently runs.

Eventually, to take the new road from Peak 8, drivers will hang a right where the current Stables Lot is. That will run them smack-dab into the new development, and the road will reconnect on the other side near the Peaks Trail lot.

Along with the road shift, developers will be moving the relatively new Peak 7 Independence SuperChair about 100 yards down from where it loads skiers and riders today. Vail Resorts will add a couple of towers to relocate the lift, and the new base area will spring up around the new lift site.

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