Jackson Hole Underground

Facing a lawsuit over their partnership with Imagine Jackson, city officials are trying to change the deed for property owned by the economic development corporation in South Park.

Mayor Mark Barron says the city attorney is looking into modifying ownership of the nearly $1 million property. Imagine Jackson purchased the land and building last year after receiving a state grant with the city’s help. The nonprofit corporation has leased the facility to Square One Systems Design, a robotics manufacturing firm.

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Will this bucolic pasture be home to a major new development? Not likely.

The sale of the 78-acre Lloyd property at the mouth of Cache Creek Canyon has residents of east Jackson alarmed.

The prized parcel, much of which is marsh land bordering the creek, was bought by developer and Jackson Hole native Jamie Mackay late last year, with backing from others in the community.

Mackay has not revealed his plans for the land, which borders the Bridger-Teton National Forest and sits outside the city boundaries. But the prospect of 40 to 50 housing units — a figure floated by his attorney — has the resistance organizing.

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I concluded Powder Week at JH Mountain Resort with one more out-of-bounds run, this time in Granite Canyon.

When the guys from Nordica skis, my assigned partners for the afternoon, approached me about skiing Granite, I was leery, to say the least. The north-facing, cliff-laden chutes already had seen one serious avalanche and one stranded snowboarder that week.

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A citizen has filed suit against the Town of Jackson, claiming the government’s partnership with Imagine Jackson for a $1 million state grant violates the Wyoming Constitution.

Attorney Peter Moyer filed the suit this morning in 9th District Court in Jackson on behalf of Armond Acri, an engineer and town resident.

The Wyoming Constitution “contains a very broad and strict prohibition on donations by the state, towns and other public bodies to or in aid of private individuals and private entities,” the suit states.

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Any pipe dreams that journalists were going to be wined and dined in style during Powder magazine’s ski week at Jackson Hole quickly were dispelled by the buffet at Monday night’s opening reception: chicken wings and egg rolls.

With grease oozing out of our pores, we left Teton Village as the skies cleared and moonlight shone on the peaks. It seemed the dump cycle of recent days was over.

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