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Summit Stage turns electric

By Sawyer D’Argonne
sdargonne@summitdaily.com

FRISCO — The Summit

Stage took the first step
in its eventual transition
to a 100% electric fleet on
Monday morning, unveil-
ing the transit service’s
first three electric buses
that soon will haul com-
munity members around
the county and hopefully
make a dent in the area’s
greenhouse emissions.
A crowd of stakehold-
ers gathered at the Transit
Administration Building in
Frisco on Monday to officially
cut the ribbon on the new
buses and to speak to the
importance of taking another
step forward in building a
more sustainable community
by pushing for better public
transportation and the rapid
transition of county vehicles
to new electric options.
According to experts, the
move to battery electric
vehicles will help to cut into
one of the county’s biggest
sources of emissions.
PHOTO BY SAWYER D’ARGONNE / SDARGONNE@SUMMITDAILY.COM
ELECTRIC, 3 The Summit Stage added its first three electric buses to its fleet Monday. The move will help cut into one of the county’s biggest sources of emissions.

Silverthorne plans for grocery store, child care center

By Taylor Sienkiewicz
tsienkiewicz@summitdaily.com
SILVERTHORNE — Plans
for a child care center and
a grocery store are moving
ahead on two plots of land in
Silverthorne that would serve
the Smith Ranch Neigh-
borhood and other nearby
residential areas.
Assistant Town Manager
Mark Leidal explained that
a 9-acre parcel between
Kum & Go on Ruby Ranch
Road and Our Lady of
Peace Catholic Church
will be the commercial site
where the grocery store is
planned. The parcel was
purchased by the town in
2013, and the town has
talked for several years
about bringing a neigh-
borhood grocery store to
the parcel to service the
surrounding residential
population.
“Now that Smith Ranch
neighborhood is under
construction, and we have
120 houses that are occu-
pied and … another 100
that are coming … we said,
‘OK, now is the time. Now
is the time that we ought
to be planning what that
commercial site should look
like,’” Leidal said.
The town is negotiating
with Continuum Partners,
a Denver-based develop-
er, but has not yet reached
an official development
agreement for the proper-
ty. Leidal said Continuum
Partners understands that
the town intends for the
parcel to host a small-scale
commercial center based
around a grocery store. The
company also has proposed
building additional work-
force housing rental units
on the parcel.
The child care facility
will be on a 1.8-acre site
across from the commercial
plot along Adams Avenue.
At the town council work
session Wednesday, Town
Manager Ryan Hyland
said Public Works Direc-
tor Tom Daugherty has
the site “shovel ready” but
the holdup is the need to
transition a memorandum
of understanding to an
intergovernmental agree-
ment between Silverthorne
and Summit County. In ad-
dition, Silverthorne plans
to put out two requests for
proposals: one to hire a
project manager and one
to bring on an executive
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