Skiing’s Prickliest Problem: Housing, Part 2

Part 1 of this series, which outlines the industry’s housing crisis, appeared in SAM September 2021.

Employee housing has been an expense item in the Big Sky Resort budget for nearly a half century, dating back to Boyne Resorts’ purchase of the Montana ski area in 1976. The commitment to housing has grown substantially under longtime CEO Taylor Middleton, a transplanted Alabaman who moved there in 1980 when he first started at Big Sky as a hotel desk clerk. As a beneficiary of employee housing that helped change his life’s course, Middleton took a personal interest in the resort’s housing commitment, including building five projects in just the past six years. A sixth project, housing for mid-level staff, is in the works for 2022.