More changes possible at Cordillera Lodge

EDWARDS — A Balti-more-based company wants to buy The Lodge & Spa at Cordil-lera to create a health, wellness and addiction treatment center. Cordillera homeowners and the metro district say they’ll appeal the plan’s recent approval by Ea-gle County’s community develop-ment director.

100 EMPLOYEES AT $100,000Baltimore-based Concerted

Care Group Management recently signed a sales contract to buy the lodge from current owners Beh-ringer Harvard, a Texas company.

“We have been searching for the perfect property to launch this part of our brand. It took years of

searching to find a property like the Lodge. There is nothing like it in the world,” said Noah Nord-heimer, Concerted Care Group CEO. “We believe The Lodge will be superior to any facility in the Unites States or abroad, both physically and clinically.”

Nordheimer said Concerted Care will invest more than $70 million in the property.

He said he expects to employ between 75 and 100 people in Cordillera, with an average salary of around $100,000.

“DOESN’T BELONG HERE”Several Cordillera property

owners and the metro district

remain unconvinced. While Con-certed Care’s services are “worthy and needed,” they don’t belong in their high-end residential neigh-borhood, they say.

“We still believe that such ser-vices do not belong in the heart of our community,” said Rachel Oys, general manager of the Cordillera Metro District. “As a community we feel that the preliminary plans that Concerted Care Group Man-agement has shared are incom-patible within a resort residential community.”

Cordillera has nothing to fear, Nordheimer said.

“Facilities of this nature have caused no increase in crime or

decrease in property value in Mal-ibu, the Hamptons or other parts of the world,” Nordheimer said.

ANONYMITY INCLUDED IN THE COST

The average cost to stay at

The Lodge will be $60,000 per month, Nordheimer said. Along with treatment, patients pay for anonymity.

“People coming to get well at

By Randy Wyrickrwyrick@vaildaily.com

Homeowners appealing Baltimore-based health and addiction treatment company’s plan to convert The Lodge & Spa at Cordillera

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18 in MalibuMalibu, California is home to 18

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A Baltimore-based company, Concerted Care Management Group, has a contract to buy The Lodge & Spa at Cordillera and open a health, wellness and addiction treatment center.

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the Lodge want complete anonymity, which we will provide within our campus. The Lodge will provide around the clock securi-ty guards, as we do at all of our facilities to protect our patients,” Nordheimer said.

Health, wellness and treatment, he said, is “personal” and he’s willing to stand up for it.

Nordheimer said he was among the esti-mated 23 million Americans who struggle with addiction.

Nordheimer is a real estate developer by vocation, creating both affordable housing and market-based projects, he said. He hurt his back and became addicted to pain-killers. He had a strong support system, but it was still tough to overcome, he said. He said he put his addiction behind him while serving as an executive of a large national corporation.

“People affected by addiction and mental health issues are from every community in this country, including affluent ones,” he said.

Eagle County’s 2017 Health Improve-ment Plan lists increasing mental health and substance abuse resources as a top priority.

BEATING CITY HALLIn Baltimore, Nordheimer successful-

ly fought city hall. When Nordheimer announced plans in 2014 to spend $8.6 million to create two treatment facilities in a low-income neighborhood, two Baltimore city council members threatened to change the zoning to block the plan. They claimed

the neighborhood was already saturated with programs and facilities.

The Baltimore city attorney’s office told the two council members that abusing zoning authority flies in the face of the Americans With Disability Act and federal fair housing laws.

Nordheimer built the two facilities in 2015. Those facilities now employ 75 people.

“A police captain told me that crime is down in that neighborhood because of us,” Nordheimer said.

USE BY RIGHTLast week, Eagle County Community

Development Department Director Bob Naracci ruled that Concerted Care’s plans are a “use by right” under Cordillera’s de-velopment guidelines.

Those guidelines allow medical offices and facilities, but limits them to “clinic and outpatient facilities for non-critical care.”

“Clinics are clearly an allowable use for non-critical care; which may provide inpa-tient clinical facilities. Outpatient facilities for non-critical care are likewise allowed as a use-by-right,” Naracci wrote.

Cordillera’s metro district and proper-ty owners association disagree, especially with the definition of outpatient treatment. They say they’ll appeal the ruling to the Board of County Commissioners.

That appeal is due by July 1.The lodge currently has 56 guest rooms,

two restaurants, a spa and 5,000 square feet of meeting space.

Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 and rwyrick@vaildaily.com.

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Noah Nordheimer, CEO of Concerted Care Group Management, which is trying to purchase The Lodge & Spa at Cordillera, said he expects the Lodge to employ around 100 people with salaries between $75,000-$100,000.

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