Steamboat Springs rallies to save senior living community: “Critical to the character of our community”

By Spencer Wilson | CBS Colorado

After falling into receivership, Casey’s Pond, one of the only senior living communities of its kind for hundreds of miles, is now looking for an owner and tens of millions of dollars in order to stay operational. 

That means that without help, the residents living at the facility will need to go somewhere else. Casey’s Pond has the option for nursing care, independent living and levels in-between for senior citizens. It’s cause for alarm — not only for the employees and residents there but their families in town and the town itself.

Steamboat Springs City Manager Gary Suiter said local organizations and fundraisers met Tuesday afternoon to assemble a team that will work towards producing the kind of cash needed to buy off the debt that’s culminated from the previous owner. 

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