Eastwood Snowmass introduces plans for Snowmass Center minor PUD amendment
Amendment is required for final town purchase of residential parcel
Design Workshop/Courtesy Image
Representatives from Eastwood Snowmass Investors presented plans for a scaled down commercial redevelopment plan for the Snowmass Center to the Snowmass Village Town Council during its Monday, May 6, meeting.
The Town Council approved a $12.5 million purchase of property at the Snowmass Center in April that it will use to develop workforce housing. Part of the contract included requiring Eastwood Snowmass to present a scaled-down commercial development, and that it be developed separately from the residential parcel. Some of the development requires cost sharing between the town and Eastwood Snowmass.
Jessica Garrow, a principal at Design Workshop, and Jordan Sarick, president of Eastwood Snowmass, presented a conceptual plan to tweak the already-approved Snowmass Center planned unit development (PUD). Among them were plans to tear down the current annex building where Taster’s Pizza and Ajax Supply reside and rebuild a different annex in another location. The Town Council expressed concern that this would displace local businesses as construction ensued.
“It’s an important priority for this council that we don’t tear it down and Taster’s is told, ‘Go cool your heels for two years,’ and the hardware store is told, ‘Go cool your heels for two years,'” said Council member Tom Fridstein.
Sarick said Taster’s and the Daly Diner, which would both be impacted by that construction, are “largely taken care of.” There is not yet a plan for the hardware store, but construction plans in the future would include plans to keep affected businesses open, he said.
The new plan also removes two parking garages that were included in the original Snowmass Center PUD. There will be 195 surface parking spaces — about 15 more than exist at the Snowmass Center now — and abandoning the parking garages will mean views downvalley and of Mt. Daly will remain unobstructed, Garrow said.
She and Sarick introduced three options for commercial configurations, all of which had three stories. They include adding office space to the third level, adding new space for food and beverage operations, and reconfiguring some of the space for existing tenants like Clark’s Market and Sundance Liquor and Gifts. They also include additions for a daylit rooftop space.
The proposal is about 58,400 square feet of commercial space — about 13,000 square feet more than what exists today.
The town and Eastwood Snowmass would share the costs of certain road and utilities infrastructure, including the road going up to Rim Court.
The town can’t officially purchase the land until the minor PUD amendment to the Snowmass Center PUD is approved. The Town Council convened in executive session at its May 6 meeting after Garrow and Sarick introduced their conceptual plans to discuss how council members would like the town to proceed with further negotiations.
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