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Florida developer backs out of troubled resort project near Vail

By | 09.10.09 | 8:44 am

VAIL — A Florida developer looking to build a massive private ski and golf resort off the back side of Vail Mountain near Minturn has officially bowed out of the proposed Battle Mountain project, adding a new chapter…

Minturn mayor not worried over suspended resort development

By | 08.20.09 | 7:24 am

MINTURN — Mayor Gordon “Hawkeye” Flaherty is not at all concerned that a proposed private ski and golf development south of his town of 1,200 may never get off the ground due to the languishing mountain real estate market, nor is he waiting on “a pot of money” from the developer to address the struggling former railroad town’s sagging infrastructure.

Ginn Company indirectly reacts to Vail-area merger report

By | 08.13.09 | 2:06 pm

VAIL — The Colorado Independent’s report Wednesday on the possible merging of mega-mountain real estate interests in the Vail Valley — between the proposed Battle Mountain private ski and golf community near Minturn and the existing Cordillera residential golf…

Aurora snaps up water coveted by Ginn Company for private ski resort

By | 07.14.09 | 11:48 am

A troubled private ski and golf development near the old railroad town of Minturn off the backside of Vail Mountain was dealt another blow late Monday when the Aurora City Council decided to purchase from Pueblo the Columbine Ditch

NYT story details woes of would-be private ski, golf developer

By | 05.27.09 | 8:24 am

A year ago this time, Florida real estate developer Bobby Ginn was celebrating a big victory at the polls in the tiny former mining and railroad town of Minturn, Colo., where voters had cleared the path for his proposed Battle Mountain private ski and golf resort.

Credit Suisse and the collapse of the West’s most posh ski and golf resorts

By | 03.09.09 | 9:54 am

A March 5 article in Bloomberg Markets Magazine paints a picture of wild excess in the high-end mountain resort development game, starting with the recent failure of Tamarack Resort in Idaho, the bankruptcy of the private Yellowstone Club in Montana and ending with Florida’s Bobby Ginn.