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Historic Taos Ski Valley hotel to be demolished, rebuilt 750 421 Madison Silvers

Historic Taos Ski Valley hotel to be demolished, rebuilt

aerial rendering of a mountain ski resort at twilight

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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Soaking Up New Mexico’s Renaissance 900 600 Madison Silvers

Soaking Up New Mexico’s Renaissance

The New Mexico of the past—where New Age mystics and retirees went to drop out—is being reinvented by the next generation of dreamers. Will they protect what makes this corner of the Southwest so special?

two images collaged together. the first photograph is of a small ski village in the summer time. Residential looking condo buildings in a swiss ski lodge style are in front of a steep. heavily forested mountain. The second image is of a sign.

From town, I drove up to Taos Ski Valley, which has been revitalized by billionaire owner Louis Bacon. The initial phase of the master plan includes a new base hotel, the Blake, as well as mountainside condos, a ski school, and new high-speed lifts to some of the most extreme in-bounds skiing in America. The goal, said CEO Dave Norden, is to make Taos into a destination for family ski week—everyone gets what they need, whether steep and deep slopes or afternoon naptime. Bacon is also a serious conservationist, and Norden notes that future growth will match the “carrying capacity of this narrow and somewhat remote valley” in order to avoid the damage of over-tourism. In the meantime, the broader goal is to retain the “spirit and mystique” of Taos. “Those are differentiators,” Norden said. “It’s what people are looking for.”

Read the full article at Departures.
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