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Road biking season is just beginning. CycleBar’s offering off-season specials this spring to help keep Aspen fit. Check O2 Aspen’s site for spring spa and yoga packages. Runners in between seasons with budding trees and snowy trails. Fields of daisies in May a few years ago. For those of us in town for part or all of the off-season, it’s clearly a quieter time, thought there’s still plenty to do. The Aspen Chamber dubbed mid-May through mid-June “the secret season,” when spring bursts into summer and rates are dropped on many services. As an insider’s guide to the next few weeks, following are a few of my recommendations for dining, unwinding and exercising. ....
People walk by the now officially closed Tatanka on restaurant row in downtown Aspen on Friday, April 30, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) It appears that the effects of the pandemic have only made Aspen’s commercial real estate scene even more desirable than it has been in recent years. Downtown Aspen has one retail space available for summer occupancy, according to Angi Wang, a broker at Setterfield & Bright. She and fellow broker Karen Setterfield said they haven’t seen this kind of demand ever. “It’s stronger than it’s ever been, and I’ve been doing this for 30 years,” Setterfield said. “Everyone wants Aspen. … We are out of spaces, and we have unlimited demand for retail spaces.” ....
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But manager Jim Morrison canât say why, exactly. âOf course our business is down,â he told the News&Guide. âItâs just too difficult to say how much is purely affidavit driven, COVID driven, or snow driven. Itâs pretty evident that people are willing to risk traveling in COVID environments, even at a high risk level.â Why hotels in the Roaring Fork Valley are seeing so much less traffic than those in resort towns like Jackson Hole is a central question in an ongoing debate in Pitkin County. Health officials there have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic in two ways that health officials in Teton County have not: by requiring visitors to fill out a form confirming theyâve tested negative before arriving in Aspen and shutting down indoor dining when cases peaked in early January. ....
Campaign fundraising and spending among Aspen City Council candidates is ramping up as finance reports due Monday show thousands of dollars have been contributed and spent in a 12-day period. Kimbo Brown-Schirato, who is vying against seven other candidates for two open seats, still leads in fundraising with an additional $3,275 between Feb. 9 and Sunday. That brings her total fundraising to $10,575. Brown-Schirato has spent over $3,343 on web-based advertising, Facebook and printing. Mark Reece raised $3,635 in the past 10 days in addition to his self-loan of $5,000 during the first reporting period, which covered Jan. 1 through Feb. 8. He has spent $4,155, mostly on door hangers, printing, flyers, newspaper ads and yard signs. ....