Steamboat Springs is officially on its way to welcome its first slopeside luxury hotel, after just breaking ground on The Stockman, Auberge Collection.
Stockman Development LLC, the entity led by Marquee Development, announced the start of construction Monday, as first reported by Mile High CRE. OZ Architecture of Denver designed the building, and Nunzio Marc DeSantis Architects is handling the interiors, and the whole thing runs to roughly 450,000 square feet across nine stories on Mount Werner, where the lifts unload.
Steamboat has been the last of Colorado's marquee ski towns without a luxury hotel at the bottom of its mountain, an address Aspen, Vail, Beaver Creek and Telluride each already have. Once the doors open, all five of the state's big destination ski towns will have a luxury hotel a guest can ski to.
With The Stockman soon to become home to a collection of 59 hotel rooms and suites and 95 private residences, Auberge currently runs Hotel Jerome in Aspen and Madeline in Telluride, which makes The Stockman its third Colorado mountain flag.
The residences run from studios to five-bedroom penthouses, and the roof belongs to 13 "Barn" residences with double-height ceilings. OZ Architecture and DeSantis were asked for a contemporary reading of Steamboat's ranching and Western heritage, and the Barn penthouses carry that brief in their name and their tall, open volumes. Roughly one in every seven homes in the building is a rooftop Barn, which puts the town's cattle-country past on the top floor of its newest luxury address.
Ninety-five residences against 59 hotel rooms means owners outnumber overnight guests better than three to two. That mix makes The Stockman a residential address first, with a hotel operation built to service it, and a skier clicking in at the lift will never feel the difference. Fifty-nine keys is boutique scale for a nine-story building; the homes are what fill the floors.
Ski-in, ski-out access comes with a ski concierge and slopeside dining, and several restaurant venues thread through the building. Wellbeing by Auberge, the brand's spa program, takes 10,287 square feet of it with a heated outdoor pool and thermal bathing, roughly the footprint of four typical single-family homes given over to soaking and steam. A 6,133-square-foot event floor includes a ballroom, according to Auberge's property page, and at that size the floor is larger than a regulation basketball court. That is the kind of program that keeps a base area busy in the shoulder seasons, when the lifts are quiet and the town's other lodging empties out.
Steamboat Resort has spent the past several seasons rebuilding its base area and running a new gondola, the Wild Blue, up Mount Werner. The Stockman is the piece that turns a rebuilt base into a luxury address, with the hotel's first winter landing directly behind the resort's own reinvestment.