The Steamboat Pilot & Today

kspork (anonymous)
March 9, 2008 at 9:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)

If we are to be honest, the deteroration of Ski Time Square, needs to go back, further than the present owners. For the past 20 years, the renters have been used as mules, to maximize profit on this property. With the CAM they charge, think they could have done more to maintain. I for one feel for the buisnesses, employees, and all the related services that will suffer. Not only are we to loose sales tax revenue, (to pay for that lovely round about), we will find a base area, that will impact visitors for years to come, As they don't want to walk around a 360* construction zone ie: Edgemont - Ptarmigan - one steamboat place- Ski Time Square- wildhorse meadows and BEYOND. So, we will see this affect, more than just the current buisnesses, it will affect Steve green, food distributers, laundry co, milk co, bread co., liquor reps, B & K , Cleaning co., et. just to name a few. The consequences of this shall be greater than we can visualize these companies are our employers and friends. I for one cannot embrace, such a large, under contientious developer. Enjoy the new 15 story hotel, plus the New thunderhead lodge.

armchairqb (anonymous)
March 10, 2008 at 6:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)

OK You all can be excited as locals, but as tourists find out what is happening THEY will not be too happy will ALL the CANGES at one time. This is what I hear...so where are WE going to eat??? DOWNTOWN???They can't handle the load now!!!!! How much longer will we have to wait for a table next year? Hey people...do the math....even if we attract the same # of tourists next year. We'll be without 3 restaurants (Not to mention Dos Amigos)These people are tired at the end of the day & want to grab a bite HERE on the mountain. Not even a FREE BUS will attract people downtown. Will we base next years reservations on THIS YEARS experience? And from where I stand... Steamboat is in for one "hellava" 2009. GOOD LUCK STEAMBOAT!! Me thinks you are shooting yourself in the foot!!!!

LookoutJoe (anonymous)
March 11, 2008 at 11:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

armcharpq, I never thought of it that way, both you folks have good stuff here. But I'm dissapointed about this for what it all represents in the transformation of Steamboat. This is one of those climactic changes where you're gonna remember town as it was before they torn down Ski Time Square, and then after the built it back up. Two very different times. I remember town as the kind of place with open meadows, no second homes, and a place where you could cut through your neighbor's yard without having the cops called on you. I know there's growth, and I'm not saying every person thats bought a new home here in the last ten years should leave, but things have changed. You've got a lot of big, 'ritzy' projects coming through to make this place a 'world class resort.' It really aint the out-of-the-way frontier town it once was. I loved this place for that. You can't replace the old-timer bar crowd at Dos, or the wild Tugboat scene with glitz and glammer. A local institution is going down that will never be able to be rebuilt, and there's nothing exciting about that.

JLM (anonymous)
March 13, 2008 at 12:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I am really going to miss those decrepit little buildings and will try to make do with the modern, sleek and new buildings which replace them. Hey, I hate progress and hope it all stays just the same for all time. The beginning of the end was the invention of indoor plumbing. I was happy with outhouses forever.

Bartonium (anonymous)
March 13, 2008 at 2:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The 70's called and want Ski Times Square back. The place is a dated dump and needs to be razed and rebuilt. I can't even eat at The Tugboat anymore - it's a pig sty with 30 years of spilt beer and vomit ground into the floor and I certainly won't miss that ripe smell.

Steamboat will be a better place for this. The only constant is change - get over it whiners.

hubiem (anonymous)
March 13, 2008 at 3:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

as i looked around in ski time square yesterday i looked at the building that houses surefoot, powder tools, the wine rack, and the trading post. my eyes ventured upward toward the chimney on the front of the building. i then noticed a big piece of concrete stucco from the chimney that had fallen off and was lying on the roof. then i looked to the right to see the abandoned upper floor of the building that used to be levels and the heavenly daze. it looks really bad to have abandoned buildings at the base of the ski area. we've got a bunch of old buildings that are just asking to be knocked down, and even trying to fall down on their own. it all needs to go away, and the sooner the better.

the worst thing about knocking down those octagonal buildings last year was that it opened up the view of those hideous little boxes called the xanadu that are on burgess creek road. i can only hope they are leveling those places as well.

has anyone been in some of the little rooms at the thunderhead lodge, or the ski time square condos recently. i have been in both, and both looked like they were last remodeled in the 1970's and both smelled like someone had been using them as a locker room since the 1970's. i couldn't wait to get outside and get a breath of fresh air when i was in those places. the quality of some of the places to stay at the base area is embarrassing. don't get me wrong, there are some really nice places, but there are some real hole in the wall places too. if i booked a room online and then showed up to the thunderhead or the ski time square condos to see a room like that, i wouldn't be happy. does anyone know if those places get any return guests staying in them, or do people figure out nicer places to stay after they been taken once.

almostlocal (anonymous)
March 14, 2008 at 10:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

People come back year after year to the Thunderhead Lodge. It may be very dated, but it is one of the only affordable ski in ski out hotels left. You can't beat going out the back door of the hotel and being on the slopes and going out the front door and being on Ski Time Square. Many, many visitors have mentioned how sad they are that it is being torn down, and now it will be replaced with a high-end, very expensive hotel, so these visitors will not be able to afford to visit Steamboat anymore.

I agree that Ski Time Square is badly in need of re-development, it is just too bad that the developers of Steamboat think we should be another Vail or Aspen and cut out the middle class who have supported us for so many years.

It's also a shame that they are going to tear all the Ski Time Square buildings down this fall and leave a barren construction site until the spring of 2009. The Thunderhead Lodge site is not going to be complete until 2012. That is a long time for Steamboat to be without a base area village. I wonder where all the tourists will go for the next 3 or so years - my guess is another ski area.