VAIL- —A district judge gave an international orthopedics company the green light to open a surgical training center in Vail.
District Court Judge Mark Thompson struck down a temporary restraining order that had blocked Arthrex from finishing construction of a “wet lab” in Vail’s Gateway Plaza.
Arthrex manufactures orthopedic products and trains surgeons to install them, using body parts harvested from human cadavers and sterilized.
The Vail Gateway Plaza Condominium Association asked for and received a temporary restraining order stopping work on the space, just days before it would have been completed. Attorney Charles Lipcon is president of the condo association, and in their lawsuit they asserted the wet lab was not a use compatible with high-end residences and the building’s other commercial uses.
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