Minnedosa’s Ski Valley resort is up for sale
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This article was published 27/12/2018 (2446 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A popular ski resort in southwestern Manitoba is up for sale.
“I can’t do it forever,” said owner Don Horner, 62, who bought Ski Valley in Minnedosa with his late father, Elliott Horner, in 1978.
The sale would include the 140-acre property, located about 60 kilometres north of Brandon, and everything on-site, from snow-making equipment to the cutlery in the kitchen.
The resort has nine hills ranging in skill level from beginner to advanced, and are as tall as 100 metres. It gets as many as 500 skiers on a busy day, many of whom are students from schools in the surrounding area, Horner said. Ski Valley also has a full-service, licensed restaurant.
When Horner bought the property with his father 40 years ago, he was 22 years old. They owned the business together until he bought out his father in 1988.
He said he’s excited about someone new being holding the reins of the business.
“It’s time for new ideas,” he said.
The resort went up for sale last year, said Brandon real estate agent Gallagher McGuinness, who is managing the sale.
They came close to a deal with a buyer, but it fizzled out.
The listing was renewed recently at a price of $1.3 million.
“I think it’s a real good buy,” said McGuinness, who said he skied at Ski Valley for 20 years. He hopes the price, which he said is cheap considering the equipment on the property and the quality of the hills, will help sell the property this time around.
There has already been some interest in the property, including from a Calgary couple and a Brandon man who is assembling a consortium to buy the property.
“The prospects are good that we’ll sell this winter,” McGuinness said.
Horner also said the move to sell has nothing to do with a lawsuit filed against Ski Valley and the Brandon School Division. The parents of a 14-year-old girl filed the suit in January, online court records show.
A Brandon Sun report in March said they alleged both organizations “failed to provide proper supervision, safe conditions and competent care for their daughter” when she broke her leg during a March 2017 school trip to Ski Valley.
Brandon School Division and Ski Valley denied responsibility. Ski Valley said the girl and her legal guardian signed a waiver before she was allowed to ski.
Horner said it’s time to sell, adding he doesn’t want to wait until he’s “old and bitter.”
Horner plans to live nearby on a portion of the property he subdivided and is willing to help out potential buyers with operating the property for the first couple of years.
He said he will try to negotiate a lifetime season pass to the hills when the property is sold.
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