By Erich Sommer, Sierra Sun
August 9, 2001
With the purchase of PC-2 last September and the acquisition of the adjacent Featherstone parcel in April, East
West Partners became the largest landowner in the Town of Truckee, owning an estimated 10 percent of all the land
within town limits.
But these holdings are just a drop in their portfolio. East West has owned, managed and developed over a billion
dollars of real estate from Beaver Creek, Colo., to Hilton Head, S.C., from Montana to Northstar. Based in Colorado,
East West has over 20 sales offices in the Vail Valley and participates "in over 65 percent of all real estate
transactions in Eagle County, Colo.", according to a company brochure.
The last thing many would expect such a real estate powerhouse to do is support a state-wide initiative that would
severely restrict growth in much of rapidly growing Colorado. Such was the case last fall, when East West Partners
got behind Amendment 24.
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