The Summit at Snoqualmie, a family-oriented ski resort where many of Seattle’s skiers got their start, has been quietly bought by a Florida real-estate investment trust.
CNL Income Properties paid almost $35 million in January for The Summit, as part of a $170 million deal for four ski properties.
Olympia sources tell me that CNL has privately threatened to move The Summit to Orlando unless WA state legislators authorize funds to build it a new mountain.
Taxing baby food seems like the appropriate funding source for this community enhancement, job creating venture. Let’s do it!
Working together, taxpayers, and business can create a better future for everyone. this is the beauty and wisdom of Capitalism.
I am outraged. What will happen to the wonderful Summit Mountain Resort once it gets to Florida? Oh the indignity of having Flush Flimbaugh thundering down the slopes in a Speedo. Of having the anorexic sexoholic, Ann Coulter, sliding down the mountain on her back, legs splayed wide open to accomodate her latest conquest. (She is the very definition of Urban Cougar). I just threw up in my mouth. Bleeech.
There should be a luxury tax attached to any new stadium that the Sonics may (or more likely, not build) to pay for the new mountain. I would think a tax of 10% on all gross revenue connected to the new arena should just about cover it.
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You are proof of what is wrong with “conservatives”–an absolute lack of either humor or perspective. Ideology–all the time and anywhere.
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You are proof of what is right with progressives–you get it, you roll with it, and you add to it. And, damned nice to hear from you, hope your new home is treating you fine.
Speaking of Florida citizens.
Why can’t OJ date Ann? Then catch her cheating? Then, oh I don’t know, give her the Nicole Brown treatment.
The above comment is Ann Coulter humor. No harm intended. Or is it? I am conflicted.
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I will take some crap from this but I did not realize how much I loved southern California. The weather is great, the politics so-so. I love Seattle and the Great Northwest and I always will, but, I was born, raised and educated here and I can tell you this so far….You can go home. (Now as soon as possible I would like those grandkids to appear. My son has announced a wedding in November, doubling the chances).
Hi to all my friends here at HA, even you PuddyPud.
If the terrorists ever attack us – I think we should offer them Florida and hope they take it off our hands.
I dunno, I thought there was some hope for Florida. . .Or “FLORIda, as Lionel pronounces it. The academics in Florida refused to award an honorary degree to Jebby. . . .
Hi to all my friends here at HA, even you PuddyPud.
YOU MEAN MWS!! LMAO!!!
I’M A EXPATRIATE SO CAALEEFUURNEEAN MYSELF. I KEEP TELLING MYSELF THAT EVERYTIME I GO DOWN THERE I’M REMINDED OF WHY I LEFT – THE TRAFFIC, THE SMOG, THE NOISE, THE CROWDS, THE ENDLESS SPRAWL.
DESPITE ALL THAT I DO MISS IT SOMETIMES. I’M ENDLESSLY FASCINATED WITH THE HISTORY AND LEGENDS OF THE PLACE AND I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT GRANDKIDS WOULD INDEED MOTIVATE ME TO STICK IT OUT DOWN THERE FOR GOOD.
BEST WISHES! ESPECIALLY FOR THE GRANDKIDS!
Olympia sources tell me that CNL has privately threatened to move The Summit to Orlando unless WA state legislators authorize funds to build it a new mountain.
Fine by me. Tell them to move it and get it the hell outta’ here. There are, of course, some trip permits to take care of first. But CNL has a real imagination problem. With all the sink holes in Florida, you’d think there’s where the skiing opportunities lie. Endless depths, steep untrammelled slopes, moderate temperatures. JHFC they ski here at night, don’t they?
We can sell them the snow. They pay the freight.
Here’s a great idea for all you marxist moonbats.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....pay12.html
Like the french, we need a “law of economic moralization.”
Shit.. it won’t work. You moonbats have no moral foundation other than your feeeeeeeeeeelings.
Dumshits…
We stand up for speech. We engage in it. We never demand anybody be censored. We are content to let the marketplace deal with liberals as it does on talk radio: it rejects them.
Holy shit… whodathunkit. The girlz on the seattle school board picked a hyphen-name “woman of color” to “lead” them.
I predict that the downward spiral of seattle schools will continue and that the spiral will accelerate.
The only people who would send their chern to a seattle school are hopeless fucking losers like Goldy who lack the “resources” to do anything else.
Left Footy: Good to see you in pixels too. I make it down to the John Wayne Airport every so often fo bidness. When can we hook up for a handshake and a cool one? You will be spirited mine not!
How in hell can some schmuck or some club of schmucks from Ft Lauderdale or who knows where corrupt a local cultural institution and bend her over to have their way with her? Well, Seattle is historically a city of new money and camp followers, so it’s not all that hard to understand. And what Seattle fat cats are standing by watching it all go down? Why, it’s the good Mister Gates, who’s much too concerned with investments in Ahfrika at the moment to bahthah with the local trash.
Billionaires are always bigger in Seattle. Hell, same with the serial killers.
We stand up for speech. We engage in it. We never demand anybody be censored. We are content to let the marketplace deal with liberals as it does on talk radio: it rejects them.
Well sure. Then the 30 year campaign against the “liberal media” was not about the ‘free market of ideas’ afterall.
You fuckers whine when you lose, but you whine worse when you win. You have absolutely no class, and it shows.
Hidden Agenda
What do these FLA types know about global warming? I understand they plan to build a marina there!
Puddy,
I would be glad to have a beer with you when you are here next. I am sure we can trust Goldy to pass a phone number or email address between us.
I love the misinformation available to the Republicans.
My kid graduated from Ballard High last year. She is now attending the UW.
It too bad she couldn’t go to Falwells or Robertsons college so she could qualify to be a US Attorney.
Conservatives don’t want to shut down the MSM or demand equal time on lefty news programs. That is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives are for free speech and liberals are not. Freedom of speech is also not forcing others to subsidize your speech. We subsidize enough liberal drivel in our public schools and universities. PBS is public financed democrat propaganda. Aren’t you liberals at least a little embarrassed in supporting the fairness doctrine? I guess not. In a way I cant blame you, your ideas don’t hold to well to debate.
I know this is a joke but this is bad news. The locals and/or western enthusiast owners who run these resorts are turning to better energy efficiency and power generation opportunities. Owners from Florida? Yikes. Higher ticket prices and less conservation that is fast becoming the hallmark of western ski resorts. Us who ride appreciate this and want to see more. But when they are bought out by companies looking to make a buck well, we have seen the consequences of that. Higher ticket prices and less services. They might bleed it until it is dry and move on leaving their trash behind.
Well, the skiers around here have always joked about “Snoqualmie Flats”.
Pfui. Let ’em move. I quit paying attention to The Summit after it lost out to Smugglers’ Notch in the finals and the owners quit putting money into it.
Well the upside is Disney won’t have to build another concrete Matterhorn in Orlando if our mountain comes to them. Maybe it’s time to buy Disney stock.
So … are they angling for one of these? http://tinyurl.com/7atn6 They could save a lot of gas by knocking down some single-family housing and putting it in Ballard or Roosevelt. Maybe this is a good way to develop Hugh Sisely’s properties.
The downside is you make another 40 people homeless every time you knock down a Sisley flophouse.
Tee Hee…why can’t the outrage that’s generated about sports arenas be directed towards the Port of Seattle, losing money for no good reason, building docks and moving after 3 years and so on?