Harley Baldwin, 59, an Entrepreneur Who Gave Aspen Cachet, Dies
NY Times
Harley Baldwin, a sociable entrepreneur based in Aspen, Colo., whose high-profile dealings in real estate, restaurants and art helped define the ski resort literally and figuratively, died on Jan. 23 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He was 59.
The cause was kidney cancer, said Richard Edwards, his companion.
Starting in the mid-1980’s, when Aspen was sloughing off its folksy image as a ski resort and transforming into the glitter magnet it is today, Mr. Baldwin refurbished the 1891 Brand Building in downtown. He bought it in 1971 for $170,000 and turned it into apartments and shops, including branches of Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, and the building now has an estimated worth as high as $15 million.
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