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Scott Condon/The Aspen Times Infrastructure work has started on the Stott’s Mill project near Basalt High School. Scott Condon/The Aspen Times The midvalley is experiencing a construction boom this year that will result in a population surge down the road. There are 11 major projects for residential, commercial or mixed uses that are under construction, soon to get underway or in the planning process, according to an assessment of records by The Aspen Times. More projects are poised to enter the pipeline. A weekly update by the Basalt planning department March 5 said the staff is answering ...

For the Aspen Times Weekly Mark Howard has embraced change since he moved to Aspen, at 22, in 1973. He was a ski bum and restaurant server who rewired to become a 9-to-5 white-collar guy and family man. He he was a financial advisor who, at age 57, took a 90% paycut to teach English at Basalt High School. Now retired, he’s published a nontraditional memoir about his concept of periodically “rewiring” one’s life. The new book, “A Rewiring Life,” is excerpted here. I arrived in Aspen on September 13, 1973 and the first few years in Aspen I pursued the ski-bum life. After a year at ...

Talk about a comeback. A project that likely will be the last large residential development in Basalt broke ground this month 12 years after the Great Recession knocked it to the back burner. A company called MSP Development Group will build 64 apartments in four buildings and sell 49 single-family home and duplex lots in a project known as Stott’s Mill. The 18-acre site is between the Southside neighborhood and Basalt High School. It’s one of the last large, undeveloped parcels in Basalt, said Stefan Peirson, a real estate adviser with Engel & Volkers Aspen, the firm with the exclusive l...