“It has always drained my wallet, but it’s given back in threefold, tenfold, and they're never going to build another Stanley.'
“It has always drained my wallet, but it’s given back in threefold, tenfold, and they're never going to build another Stanley."When John Cullen first walked into the Stanley hotel 28 years ago, eleven of the fourteen buildings on the Estes Park property were condemned, and in six he could see straight to the sky through holes in their roofs.
He jokes that Stanley regulars would get upset if something suddenly looked new, saying that his customers care about every tiny detail. Everywhere he goes, he says, he meets someone who has a story about the hotel that has occupied so many of his 61 years., which manages or owns over twenty luxury hotels and resorts around the world, the Stanley has always been his favorite, and the one he’s given the most time and money to since buying it out of bankruptcy court for $3.14 million in 1995.
Local businessman Frank Normali — who’d fallen in love with the place — purchased it in 1974 and got the Stanley Historic District added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The designation includes the hotel as well as the Carriage House, the Manor House, Stanley Hall and eight other buildings on the property. But despite Normali's love for the hotel, it proved difficult to maintain, falling into bankruptcy and paving the way for Cullen's purchase of the place.
But instead of calls to cancel reservations, he got a phone call from a friend in the industry who told him that his daughters were now convinced they needed to stay at the Stanley.And Cullen has done plenty more to persuade people to come, spending over $30 million to add a wellness center and residential condos on the property, and also start construction of what will eventually become the Stanley Film Center, a facility with a focus on horror.
But despite knowing that he needs to step back and let people do what they do best, Cullen sometimes can’t help but take on a new project. That’s what happened with theCullen and his partner had planned to stay at a friend’s place in Nederland for the 2023 festival, but in November 2022, his friend told them it had been canceled. It had gotten too big for the town and needed a major cash infusion.
After that, the town sent someone to tend to him and held a festival celebrating its most famous resident every year until the pandemic. The organizers tried a comeback in 2022, but it was just too much for the town. So Cullen flew to Oslo to arrange everything with the Morstoel family, then set up the partnership with Alcor.
“The context of it is if you can't do a kidney, you can't do a brain, so you've got to start small and start with the basic organs and then work your way up,” Arrowood explains. Until then, Grandpa Bredo will be suspended in a metal Dewar container that has thermodynamic properties similar to those of a rocket engine, because it has to be cold enough inside to freeze off someone’s hand, but warm enough on the outside that it can be handled and touched by humans.
The festival will relaunch under Blumhouse’s guiding hand when the film center opens. In the meantime, Estes Park and the Stanley are hosting the Its reach has since expanded to museums, sports facilities, schools and performance spaces; since its inception, CECFA has issued over $7.6 billion in bonds.Mark Heller, executive director of CECFA, had reached out to Cullen years earlier regarding the film center but says Cullen only called him recently to make the bonds a reality. Because charities can’t access the bond market directly, CECFA steps in.
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