Snowmass Sun
The Westin in Snowmass Village, seen here in May 2020, sold this week as part of a $70 million deal. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Investors who bought the Westin Snowmass Resort and other properties in Snowmass Village this week for $70 million plan to make the 254-guestroom property a member of Marriott’s Autograph Collection, according to a firm involved in the deal.
The sale of the Westin, the 151-room Wildwood Snowmass lodge and the18,000-square-foot Snowmass Conference Center was documented in a single transaction filed Wednesday in the Pitkin County Clerk & Recorder’s Office.
The sellers were Starwood Capital Group and Wasserman Real Estate, which under the entity Silvertree Propco LLC bought the same properties for $42 million in June 2011 from the Burwell family of Minnesota. The next year they spent $55 million
All eyes will be on the nation’s capital this year.
For one, it will welcome a spate of new points hotel openings such as the Kimpton Banneker Hotel in Dupont Circle (spring 2021) and, from Choice, the Cambria Hotel Washington, D.C. Capitol Riverfront.
Luxury and boutique brands have also announced exciting developments, such as The Dupont Circle, which emerged from top-to-toe renovations in mid-October and the six townhouses at the Rosewood Washington, D.C., which opened late last month. There’s even the Hotel Zena, a Viceroy Hotels & Resorts property that opened in October and was designed to celebrate both the accomplishments of and empowerment of women.