SAM Coverage
Olivia Rowan
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The New Tax Law– Material Participation
A timely examination of some of the worst consequences of the new law-before the final regulations are on paper.
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Grand Scale Redevelopment
How can $10 million worth of goodies be squeezed into a space smaller than a city block? They are doing it at Aspen.
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Contrarian Development Approach
At Shawnee, real estate came first, but the mountain and skiing proved to be a profit center on its own.
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Catering To Kids
There’s money to be made in ski schools for children, but it’s not like adult ski schools. The operation is tricky and subtle.
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Converting Dinosaurs
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Sugarbowl Builds A Lift For Deep Snows
Lifts have unique problems in places where the snow drifts to 100 feet or more. Lift Engineering solved this one.
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Capturing Linear Functions
Skiers move through the Wachusett base lodge following their needs. It works-almost too well.
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Defusing Development
A master of win-win negotiating reveals his secrets and suggests ways to break the costly deadlocks that delay and fragment the ski area planning…
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Aspen’s Crown– The Silver Queen
The six-passenger Pomagondola not only moves people faster, it changes the way they ski the mountain and gives the resort a new image.
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World’s First 8-Seater
The new speedy Doppelmayr gondola at Steamboat has reduced lines and relieved congestion on the lower mountain. It also operates in very high winds.
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Detachable Quad At June
Lift Engineering solved a problem and built a skier-friendly lift in process. It makes a strong statement of design philosophy: understatement.
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Beach Front Planning/Slope Development
The effective circulation of skiers and cars is the key to using land profitably in creating effective circulation of skiers and cars is the…