"They're going to infuse it with a lot of cash, add on some new and exciting attractions and be able to move forward with a lot of their plans that they have put on hold for quite awhile for different reasons," Kathy Henderson, director of economic development for the Carbon Chamber & Economic Development Corp., told The Morning Call. "It'll be a big help to them and to creating more jobs in the county." Blue Mountain opened in 1977 as the Little Gap Ski Area. It was started by Ray Tuthill and his daughter, Barbara Green, who serves as president and CEO. The resort was renamed Blue Mountain in 1989 and has remained a top skiing mountain for locals and visitors from the Philadelphia area, the Lehigh Valley, New York City and elsewhere in the region.