Lift One Corridor

The Lift One Corridor is a multi-stakeholder redevelopment of roughly two and a half blocks of South Aspen Street in Aspen, Colorado, running from Dean Street up the western flank of Aspen Mountain to the spot where skiing in Aspen began. Narrowly approved by Aspen voters, the public-private plan retires the aging Lift 1A and replaces it with a new telemix lift, mixing chairs and gondola cabins, extended downslope so it loads close to downtown beside Dean Street, while the historic original Lift One is restored and reinstalled on site. A subgrade parking garage sits beneath the new base terminal, topped by a public plaza and skier return. Two midcentury buildings are being relocated and restored: the Skiers Chalet Lodge, which will house Aspen Skiing Company guest services and a snowsports history museum run by the Aspen Historical Society, and the Skiers Chalet Steakhouse, which will reopen as a restaurant. Flanking the extended ski corridor are two separate luxury lodging developments, Chalet Alpina by HayMax Capital and Irongate Group, and, at the cul-de-sac terminus of South Aspen Street on the former Gorsuch Haus site, Aman Aspen by OKO Group. All told, the corridor totals more than 320,000 square feet of commercial, lodging and residential space, with public parkland at Dolinsek Gardens on the Monarch Street side, city-funded streetscape and park improvements along Dean Street, and a construction sequencing agreement among the City of Aspen, Aspen Skiing Company and both lodge developers coordinating the build.