SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT
“There is a certain bragging right that comes with charging the highest lift ticket price in the country.” – Adam Aron, chief executive of Vail Resorts, on plans to sell a full-price, single day lift ticket for $81 this season at Vail and Beaver Creek, up $4 over last season.
NOT AN INVESTMENT TO WRITE HOME ABOUT
“I’m not willing to take 20 cents on the dollar.” – Sondra Brandon, of Manassas, Va., who put down $22,500 for a three-bedroom townhome in North Carolina, sold by Englewood-based Mile High Capital Group, which is under investigation. A report from a court-appointed receiver estimates that investors may receive only 20 percent of their investment.
RECOVERING FROM A DIFFERENT KIND OF DROUGHT
“It has taken four years to get those jobs back.” – Richard Wobbekind, an economist at the University of Colorado, projecting that 52,100 jobs will be created in the state next year, bringing total employment to 2.25 million – a level last reached prior to the 2001 recession.
IT’S ALL IN THE AMBIENCE
“People who would be gruff in other places turn into pussycats.” – Mary Baum, a partner in Baum Arensmeier & Talent Inc., about their offices at the historic Schleier Mansion in Denver.
