ASPEN — — Roughly 40 percent of the planned worker-housing units in Phase IIA of Aspen’s Burlingame Ranch have been reserved — some by prospective buyers who were willing to spend the night on a sidewalk — but how many such pre-sales it will take to give the City Council confidence to build the project remains to be seen.
In the meantime, the Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority continues to market the unreserved units in Phase IIA, where the less expensive units predictably proved more popular than the pricier ones during a recent round of reservations.
With 82 units spread over seven buildings currently planned in the next phase of the worker-housing development, 34 applicants have selected specific units and each put down a $500 refundable deposit to reserve the unit of their choice.
Within the most popular price and bedroom configurations, there were more applicants than units, producing a couple of nights last week during which buyers camped overnight outside the housing authority’s door in order to get first dibs on reservation day.
Their eagerness apparently took some city officials by surprise, and Pitkin County Commissioner Michael Owsley decried the arrangement.
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