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$677 million property tax valuation for Gaylord resort is upheld
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With a $400 million difference in property value on the line, Colorado’s second-highest court has sided with Adams County in upholding a $676.5 million valuation of the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center. The owner of the 1,501-room hotel near Denver International Airport attempted to argue the amenity-rich convention center’s real value was closer to $270 million.…
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Report: Denver lodging bounces back, but lags behind national recovery
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Metro Denver’s hotels saw a strong first quarter, marching – slowly but surely – to pre-pandemic occupancy levels, according to an industry report from real estate giant CBRE. But the recovery remains behind the national average – largely because of the influx of all the newly-constructed, higher-priced hotel rooms that hit the Denver market in recent years.…
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Federal judge orders Denver-area hotel operator to make ADA improvements
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A federal judge has found an Arapahoe County hotel to be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and ordered its operator to make accessibility improvements, following the company’s unusual move of agreeing with all of the allegations against it. Equally unusual, plaintiffs John Meggs and the Florida-based advocacy group Access–4–All balked when the hotel…
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Supreme Court finds error in Eagle County’s valuation of luxury Vail resort
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Eagle County improperly included income from separately-owned condominium units when it estimated the property value of a luxury Vail resort, the Supreme Court decided on Tuesday. The county had valued The Lodge at Vail at roughly double what its owner, Vail Resorts subsidiary Lodge Properties, Inc., believed it was worth. The discrepancy stemmed from how…
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Court orders disclosure of guests’ names at Boulder Hyatt hotel where carbon monoxide leak occurred
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A federal magistrate judge ordered Hyatt Hotels to disclose the names and contact information of guests who were present at the Hyatt Place Boulder during a 2018 carbon monoxide poisoning, believing they could provide relevant information for a multimillion-dollar liability lawsuit. However, Hyatt quickly succeeded in getting a district court judge to halt compliance with the…
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What is one hotel worth? State Supreme Court wades into dispute over luxury Vail hotel
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Vail Resorts and Eagle County hold different views about how much a luxury hotel property in the core of Vail Village is worth – specifically, a difference of $24 million. Now, the Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Fortune 500 company and the state of Colorado are correct that the disputed property should…
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Denver-area hotels cannot be held liable for sex trafficking, federal judge rules
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Even though hotel staff knew a sex trafficking victim well enough to wink as she checked in and offer a “jetted tub” upgrade, they were seemingly unaware she was being exploited and she may not sue for her two years of abuse, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer found…
