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The sale of Toggenburg Mountain is currently actualizing, with plans for the New York ski area to eventually reopen. \u00a0| Photo: toggenburg<\/p>\n\t\tThe sale of Toggenburg Mountain is currently actualizing, with plans for the New York ski area to eventually reopen. \u00a0| Photo: toggenburg<\/p>\n
A deal is in the works to sell and potentially reopen the long-shuttered Toggenburg Mountain ski resort<\/a> in Fabius, New York, after years of legal wrangling over its closure. <\/strong>According to reporting from Syracuse.com<\/a>, Intermountain Management (also known as SkiCNY.com) recently offered to sell the 100-acre ski area to local businessman Douglas Wheeler for $1.75 million, down from its original $1.995 million asking price.<\/p>\n The development comes as New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert Antonacci II considers potential remedies following his April ruling that Intermountain violated the state\u2019s Donnelly Act<\/a> by purchasing Toggenburg in 2021 and then immediately closing it.<\/strong> The New York Attorney General\u2019s Office argued that the move gave Intermountain a monopoly on local season ski passes, pushing more skiers to its nearby resorts, Song and Labrador Mountains, and creating higher prices and longer lift lines.<\/p>\n While Intermountain is appealing the decision, Antonacci has signaled his strong preference for a swift sale and reopening of the ski area.<\/strong> \u201cI want Mr. Harris to try to settle this case by divesting,\u201d Antonacci said during a hearing on Wednesday, referring to Intermountain president Peter Harris. \u201cThe quicker that can be resolved, the better it\u2019s going to be for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n Wheeler, a Fabius resident whose great-grandfather once owned the land where Toggenburg sits, has made several previous attempts to buy the mountain.<\/strong> During a trial earlier this summer, he testified that he plans to reopen the resort and relocate his other businesses\u2014such as sign manufacturing and auto repair\u2014to the site. However, he acknowledged that a reopening this winter would be unlikely due to logistical and financial hurdles.<\/p>\n His attorney, John Petosa, cautioned in court that several months and at least $2 million in investment would be required before the lifts could turn again, making it virtually impossible to reopen this coming winter.<\/strong> Justice Antonacci has not issued a formal order for the sale but indicated he will weigh Harris\u2019s cooperation in potential financial penalties. The Attorney General is currently seeking a $4 million fine against the company.<\/p>\n Judge Antonacci suggested that the faster the ski resort is sold, the more favorably the court may view Harris in its final decision, according to Syracuse.com.<\/strong> Toggenburg Mountain first opened in 1953 and had long served as a community hub, providing first jobs for many local teens\u2014including Wheeler himself\u2014before its sudden closure<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sale of Toggenburg Mountain is currently actualizing, with plans for the New York ski area to eventually…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,77697,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,77698,77699,77700,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-126659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-east-coast","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-ski-industry-news","17":"tag-ski-news","18":"tag-toggenburg","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114988194705046118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}