The Crested Butte News Serving the Gunnison Valley since 1999
Hoping to break ground in 2018
By Alissa Johnson
Adaptive Sports Center development director Allison Butcher appeared before the Mt. Crested Butte Town Council in November to request a letter of support for the nonprofit’s pending construction of a new building. The council was in full support.
“We are requesting a letter of support from you for our campaign to build a new facility at the base area,” Butcher said. Adaptive purchased the Outpost Building, which currently houses the Trailhead Children’s Museum, from Crested Butte Mountain Resort in August.
According to Butcher, Adaptive has raised $5.6 million of the $10 million needed to build a 20,000-square-foot, three-story building.
The new building, said Butcher, “would essentially double our capacity to provide programs for people. We’ve had to turn away our first group because we just don’t have the capacity and space to serve any more groups.” Butcher also noted that this building will be the first full home for Adaptive in its 30-year history.
The facility will allow Adaptive to serve two groups simultaneously rather than one at a time, in part by providing much-needed housing. One entire floor of the building will provide that housing, together with a condo the nonprofit recently purchased in the town of Crested Butte—though that condo is not part of current fundraising efforts.
Town Council authorized the letter of support with little comment. “The Town of Mt. Crested Butte remains in full support of the Adaptive Sport Center’s building opportunity, which will allow the organization to better serve participants, affect more people, and secure their future,” the letter read.
Butcher said the nonprofit is on schedule to break ground in the spring of 2018 and move in during the summer of 2019. The hope is to have 75 percent of funds raised by this coming spring so that Adaptive can apply for grant funds with statewide foundations.
