Accommodation Station sold to Vail Resorts

Publisher’s note: Greta and Mike Hambsch are selling the 34-year-old property management firm, which is the third largest in the South Lake Tahoe area.

By Denver Business Journal

Vail Resorts Inc. is getting into the lodging business in South Lake Tahoe.

The Broomfield-based company (NYSE: MTN), which owns four Colorado ski resorts and the Heavenly Mountain Resort in South Lake Tahoe announced Tuesday that it has acquired Accommodation Station, the third-largest property management company in the South Lake Tahoe market. Privately owned Accommodation Station manages condominiums, mountain chalets, cabins and luxury homes for short- and long-term rentals.

Vail Resorts owns or manages slopeside lodging already around its Colorado resorts — Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone and Beaver Creek — and in Jackson Hole, Wyo. But this is the company’s first lodging collection in South Lake Tahoe.

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