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Originally Posted by John Mercier
To increase the accommodations at Gunstock in the current format, you would need to expand the campground (more acres) or build vertically at the lodge (disruption of current business).
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increase accommodations? There are essentially no accommodations during ski season, apart from two cabins that sleep a total of 8 adults.
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Originally Posted by John Mercier
And no, it better serves residents if it can support higher payments to the county... as most residents do not ski.
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If the primary goal of Gunstock is to provide higher payments to the county, then it should have been leased long ago.
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Originally Posted by John Mercier
But even a private operator would tell the GAC/Delegation, that to keep slope fees low enough... with rising need for snowmaking and the amount of energy that goes to such... you are going to need something that subsidizes it.
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If Gunstock were to maintain its current footprint, there wouldn't be much more snowmaking capacity needed. Likewise, there would be LESS energy needed due to advances in snowmaking energy efficiency.
The proposed hotel is not the panacea for the county. That said, it could be one heck of a moneymaker for a private developer, especially if the county foots the bill for the infrastructure (it won't be cheap to get the road and utilities halfway up the mountain).