In other ski towns you build during the off-seasons and the construction workers live in the apartments that would be otherwise empty.
Crested Butte is not just a ski town. Most ski towns in CO are not just ski towns. But CB is especially popular with mountain bikers and is busy almost year round.
European ski and mountain bike towns tend to be only busy in winter and summer, they are empty in spring and autumn.
Re:How to Save a Ski Town
by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:05AM
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... or "mobile" construction workers who live year-round or part-year in RVs and the like, and move to where the work is.
You need workers and materials to build new housing. There is already a shortage of workers.
Builders in Grand Junction can make far more profit by building in Grand Junction, vs driving 6 hours each day to Crested Butte and back. Same with hauling materials.