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A new 103-room hotel proposed for Purgatory Resort received a green light this week from the La Plata County Planning Commission. The commission voted 4-0 Thursday to recommended approval for a...
DATE: Dec. 14, 2018 | UPDATED: 12 hours 5 minutes ago | CATEGORY: Local News
A new 103-room hotel with a ballroom to handle 300 people and meeting space is being proposed for Purgatory Resort just south of the base area. If approved by La Plata County, the hotel, in a...
DATE: Nov. 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
Construction of two new hotels on East Second Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets has begun, a project that will add about 200 rooms to the downtown area, city official say. Trucks started...
DATE: Nov. 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Durango’s lodging industry is looking at ways to make room for 475 new hotel rooms that will come online in the next 1½ to two years. “It’s scary as a lodger. It’s too much, too soon, but at the...
DATE: Sept. 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
Residents near two forthcoming six-story hotels on East Second Avenue south of College Drive are unhappy because the development will likely increase traffic, noise, dust and parking problems in an...
DATE: July 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
The newly constructed Stone Turtle Lodges at the northern edge of Cortez offers travelers and vacationers a comfortable and scenic alternative to the routine hotel room. Owners Keith and Janice...
DATE: July 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business
Durango appears on the cusp of experiencing a hotel boom, with six proposed lodges in the planning process that would add up to 450 rooms to the town. The boom comes shortly after the completion of...
DATE: May 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Plans for two six-story hotels on East Second Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets are moving forward. The project was approved in 2014, but it was delayed by financing, Assistant Community...
DATE: May 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Two hotels and a medical building are proposed along Escalante Drive between Home Depot and Walmart. The city’s Design Review Board approved the project on Wednesday after offering the architects...
DATE: May 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Traffic lights and cones sprung up Wednesday along Camino del Rio near Natural Grocers and the site of a future hotel. The lights are required to control traffic while commercial trucks work on the...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
R Space, a new co-working space in town, aims to serve nontraditional workers and meet a demand for private rooms for meetings. Kirk Komick and Diane Wildfang, owners of the Rochester Hotel, are...
DATE: Oct. 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business
New ownership has brought a new look and new name to an older motel on north Main Avenue. Garth Schultheis and James Coleman, Purgatory Resort owner, bought Days End in May. Since then, Schultheis...
DATE: Oct. 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business
The Durango Herald is assisting Santa this year in collecting letters from local children. Drop off your child’s letter to Santa in the mailbox in front of The Durango Herald, 1275 Main Avenue, in downtown Durango. All letters will be added to this photo gallery and a selection will run in The Durango Herald on Dec. 22.
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