Aspen, as is.
As Is · Volume 13 · October 2026
What it really costs to buy a lot in Starwood and build in Pitkin County today: the land, the development rights, $3,000 a foot, the permits, the codes, and four years of renting in Aspen while you wait. Against 542 Carroll Drive, already built.
As Is · Volume 12 · September 2026
My father played beach football at 85th Street in 1970s Miami. Across the line was Steven Hunt Grabow — the best-dressed, most coordinated guy on the sand, an Aspen ski instructor once on the cover of the town phone book. My middle name came from him. The story of the name, and why it was always going to be Aspen.
As Is · Volume 9 · June 2026
It began as a potato farm. Sixty years later, Starwood is the 960-acre gated mesa above Aspen where billionaires go to be left alone. The story of 542 Carroll Drive — the last remaining half of publisher William Ziff Jr.'s estate, now for sale at $29,990,000.