The Crested Butte News Serving the Gunnison Valley since 1999
Looking at Stallion Park
by Anika Pepper
Leslie Nichols, Gunnison Watershed school district superintendent, was recently approached by Gunnison County representatives with an alternative option for affordable housing for local school staff members in the north end of the valley. The issue came up after construction costs for a couple of duplexes on a piece of property within the town of Crested Butte came in much higher than anticipated.
The proposed alternative property would be located at Stallion Park in the Buckhorn subdivision off of Brush Creek Road.
There are eight units at 1,250 square feet being built by the county that are all three-bedroom and two-bathroom with a garage. The proposed price is $250,000 per unit, a price point that is $45,000 lower than the duplexes being designed in town for the school district. The Stallion Park units are currently under construction; Nichols said they will be framed and finished by the end of the year.
The Gunnison Watershed School District board had many questions for Nichols when she presented this new option at the September 10 board meeting regarding who would manage the properties and if there are deed restrictions in place for the properties. Nichols said she would get more information and report back to the board with answers at the next meeting on October 1.
