Pitkin County has the third-highest, per-capita personal income in the United States, behind Teton County, Wyoming, and Summit County, Utah, thanks to high-income earners making money off investments and remote jobs and rising local.
Feedback from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and contacts in Washington have forced Pitkin County and the Aspen/Pitkin County airport to reconsider a major component of airport design plans: moving the runway, not the taxiway..
Last call at Stubbies is no time soon at least three years away, if not five. The Pitkin County Board of Commissioners approved a 3-year lease with two yearlong options to extend that lease.