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The new Aspen City Hall is almost ready for a move-in, and the old armory building will remain in limbo for the next two years.

The Wheeler Opera House masonry project is delayed a bit longer as more stone has been ordered.

Courtney DeVito is new human resources director; Rob Schober is capital asset director Courtney DeVito has been appointed as the human resources department director and Rob Schober has been promoted to capital asset director, City of Aspen officials announced Thursday. Schober’s most recent title was asset management project manager in the capital asset department, and DeVito was serving as the interim director of human resources for the city. Schober’s salary is $124,800 and DeVito makes $126,000 annually. DeVito has more than 17 years of human resources experience, including nine with t...

A man utilizes the pedestrian access while the Wheeler Opera House is under construction in downtown Aspen on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) The city of Aspen is forgiving nearly $200,000 in rent for two of its tenants that have been living under scaffolding at the Wheeler Opera House for months and therefore have not paid their landlord for nearly a year. Aspen City Council agreed earlier this month to relieve Aspen Public House, a bar and restaurant, and Valley Fine Arts, an art gallery, from paying rent through at least June. That’s when the scaffolding and the...

  The opening of the new Aspen City Hall has been delayed by at least a month due to COVID-19 issues, along with modest budget increases for the nearly $49 million project. Aspen City Council heard during a work session Tuesday that the 37,500-square-foot building is scheduled to be fully open around Thanksgiving. Schedule delays are related to the initial shutdown last March, as well as crew quarantines and limited manpower working within Pitkin County COVID public health order guidelines at 50% capacity, according to Rob Schober, the city’s capital asset project manager. City staff has c...