KETCHUM, Idaho
Auberge Resorts Collection, award-winning owner and operator of boutique luxury hotels, resorts, residences and private clubs, today announced that it has signed a deal to operate a planned luxury boutique hotel and penthouse residential development in historic downtown Ketchum, Idaho, the heart of the legendary Sun Valley Resort. This will be first new lodging project built since the early 1990s in greater Sun Valley, America's original mountain resort.
The 155,000-square-foot mixed-use project, Auberge Resort Sun Valley, will comprise between 80 and 90 hotel rooms and penthouse residences, a full-service restaurant and bar, spa and fitness facilities and technology-driven meeting and conference space.
The hotel's project owner and sponsor, Trail Creek Fund, LLC, is led by Ketchum-based Managing Member Jack Bariteau, developer behind prominent residential and mixed-use real estate projects in Ketchum, including The Shops and Residences at the Colonnade, The Christiania Building and 600 Second Street East.
The project is scheduled to break ground in late spring 2015 and welcome its first guests in the summer of 2017.
Located in a historically significant neighborhood at the gateway entrance to downtown Ketchum, Auberge Resort Sun Valley will be conveniently located within easy walking distance to the town's diverse attractions, advanced high-speed lift and gondola access to Bald Mountain. Guest rooms will offer unparalleled views of the mountain's east-facing ski runs and Sun Valley's varied forested topography.
Hotel amenities will include a lively casual bar and grill, extensive fitness amenities, heated outdoor swimming pool and sun terrace, full-service spa and meeting facilities.
Fourteen for-purchase luxury residences on the hotel's upper floors, including six fourth-floor penthouses, will offer direct unobstructed views to the top of Bald and Dollar Mountains.
The hotel, fully entitled by the City of Ketchum, has been designed by the San Francisco-based hospitality architectural firm Hornberger + Worstell, AIA.
First developed in 1936, Sun Valley was the vision of W. Averell Harriman, then CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad, who sought to create an American version of the popular ski resorts in Switzerland and Austria.
