15th annual
Plus, Extell and Hilton announce new Waldorf Astoria in Park City
Whistler is out, the Interior of BC is in. Huge real estate deals are out, powder chasing is in. If you're a long-time reader of this blog, you'll know that I do a ski and snowboard trip with a group of friends each year around this time.
Our last three trips were to Park City (where it snowed so much we lost power); Trois Vallées (which also served as my bachelor party and which involved equal parts snowboarding and dancing on tables); and Hokkaido (where it looked like Toronto looks right now).
This year — for annual number fifteen — we're headed to Revelstoke and Kicking Horse in the Selkirk and Purcell Mountains.
On some trips we like to combine an urban trip with the mountains, so that we can also gawk at architecture and urbanism. That's what we did in Japan last year. But this year's trip is not about that. It's about unadulterated time in the mountains.
It has been a weird season for snow. The west coast has been too warm with not enough of it, and the east coast has been too cold with unusual amounts of it. I have no idea what's in store for us this week, but here's to hoping it looks like the cover photo of this post.
In some related real estate news, Extell Development Company and Hilton just announced that they'll be opening a Waldorf Astoria Resort and Residences in the new Deer Valley East Village.
It's going to have 132 hotel keys and 105 one- to six-bedroom branded residences ranging from 1,099 to 5,155 square feet. Of the 105 branded residences, 56 will be "hotel residences" located above the hotel, and the remaining 49 residences will be in a more exclusive standalone residential building.
Architecture for the project is by KPF and the interiors are by AvroKO.
If you missed my recent post about the East Village and the new Four Seasons that is also currently under construction, click here.