By Chris Keller, 15 August 2022
Construction of the new facility is set to start next year with a goal of opening by late 2025.
Plans to rebuild, in some respects, took form in the summer of 2020, Jacobson said. In the video announcing future plans, she recounted a conversation Mayer had about the future of the Taos Ski Valley with Louis Bacon, the billionaire founder, chairman and principal investment manager of Moore Capital Management who started the process of purchasing the resort area in 2013.
Mayer died in October of 2020, but not before he shared his vision for what could become the next chapter of the hotel he founded, Jacobson said.
“The Hotel St. Bernard does not exist without Taos Ski Valley, and Taos Ski Valley does not exist without the Hotel St. Bernard,” Mayer once said, according to his daughter.
Architecture, planning and interiors firm Hart Howerton will work with Beatrice Rosenthal of Alpine Creation to design a hotel inspired by French alpine architecture, the news release said. The new design will retain a European chalet style with two new chalets adjacent to the hotel.
The additional space will add 30 rooms — comprised of one-, two- and three-bedroom options — an aqua-therapy area and wellness offerings.
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