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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Stanley Hotel officially sold; expansions, new features ahead
DENVER (KDVR) — The historic and iconic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park was officially sold to the Stanley Partnership for Art Culture and Education, LLC on Thursday. SPACE purchased the hotel campus through a public-private partnership with the Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority, private bond investors, the former hotel owner John W. Cullen IV and the new management company Sage Hospitality Group. What makes The Stanley Hotel one of the spookiest hotels in the nation? CECFA said that the campus's ownership by a public entity, with Cullen as Chair and CEO of SPACE, will amplify tourism for Estes Park and the state. 'I have owned The Stanley for almost 30 years and can't imagine a better way to both preserve and grow it for generations to come,' Cullen said in a press release from CECFA. With the new ownership, CECFA said that funds from the nearly $400 million bond will go toward expansions and renovations at the Stanley Hotel. The two historic lodging buildings will be extended with an additional 65 rooms and connected with a new porte-cochere for arriving guests. There will also be a new 65,000 square foot event center, which will include an 864-person auditorium and a Blumhouse horror film museum. CECFA also said that the hotel will host the Sundance Institute's 2025 Directors Lab starting next week. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
15-05-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Iconic Stanley Hotel in Colorado purchased by public entity
The historic and iconic Stanley Hotel in Northern Colorado has been sold. The public entity, The Stanley Partnership for Art Culture and Education, LLC or SPACE, purchased the hotel through a public-private partnership. The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park CBS That partnership is among the Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority, private bond investors, former owner John W. Cullen IV, and new manager Sage Hospitality Group. Cullen is at the helm of SPACE as chair and CEO. "I have owned The Stanley for almost 30 years and can't imagine a better way to both preserve and grow it for generations to come," said Cullen in a statement. According to CECFA, the nearly $400 million bond offering will also fund a major expansion of the two historic lodging buildings and a new 65,000 square foot event center. The event center will feature an 864-person auditorium and a horror film museum curated by Blumhouse Productions. The Stanley Hotel CBS The hotel was initially built to attract wealthy vacationers from the East Coast to Colorado. However, the building was rocketed into fame after Stephen King visited decades ago. He reportedly was a guest during a slow season for the hotel. While staying at the hotel, King had a vision of writing a horror book that took place in the hotel, which became "The Shining" and was turned into a movie.
Edinburgh Reporter
07-05-2025
- Science
- Edinburgh Reporter
Napier University to be home of Scotland's Policing Academic Centre of Excellence
Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) will be the home of Scotland's only Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (P-ACE), building on its success of hosting the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR). The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) has announced that nine new P-ACEs will launch across the UK in October 2025, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). As the host of SIPR, Edinburgh Napier will lead the Scottish P-ACE, with the collaboration of partner institutions Glasgow Caledonian University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews. Backed by £4.5m in funding and working with police services across the UK, the Centres of Excellence will aim to ensure that policing is shaped by the latest and best scientific expertise, and that leading researchers are able to challenge and innovate in partnership with policing. The P-ACEs will support police with adopting new technologies, developing new tools and techniques, improving training and skills, and increasing public safety. The ENU-based centre will be entitled SPACE – the Scottish Policing Academic Centre for Excellence. The name also links its key research themes, each of which is critical to modern policing: safety, prevention, analytics, confidence and ethics. Today's announcement will allow SIPR to distribute £300k to support new research and knowledge exchange activity in Scotland over the next three years, in line with these key areas of research interest. Professor Liz Aston Professor of Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University, SPACE Lead and Director of SIPR, said: 'We are delighted to have been recognised as a Policing Academic Centre of Excellence. The collaborative nature of SIPR between its member institutions has made this achievement possible. 'Not only does this recognition cement SIPR's reputation, but it will also increase the reach of our work and help to drive innovation in policing. 'I'm really looking forward to leading SPACE from Edinburgh Napier University with the co-leads. By working with the NPCC and other partners in Scotland over the coming years, we will create evidence-based innovations to improve safety and prevent harm.' Professor Paul Taylor, Police Chief Scientific Adviser, said: 'Academia and policing have a long history of collaborative working on issues as diverse as forensic science, crime prevention, and analytical technologies. 'The P-ACEs will fortify this connection, providing a focal point for research and knowledge exchange. 'I'm particularly excited about what the P-ACEs can bring to early career scientists who are interested in tackling the complex challenge of keeping the UK public safe. The P-ACE community will, I hope, provide them more opportunities and greater support as we look to forge deep and lasting partnerships over the next decade.' Led by Professor Liz Aston and involving experts from across the SIPR member institutions, SPACE will work across three main themes: Safety, led by Dr Andrew Wooff, Edinburgh Napier University and co-lead for the SIPR Organisational Development Network. This builds on ENU's reputation for impactful policing research linked to safety, including the award-winning study into Police Scotland's use of naloxone. Prevention, led by Dr Sarah Marsden, University of St Andrews and Professor Lesley McMillan, Glasgow Caledonian University. Dr Marsden is Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, while Professor McMillan,a renowned expert on gender-based violence, is director of the Scottish Cold Case Unit at GCU. Analytics, led by Professor Susan McVie, University of Edinburgh, will work in partnership with Police Scotland and the Scottish Prevention Hub. This area will bring together a network of academics who will use data driven innovation and AI-based solutions to support operational practice and policy decision making. In addition, Confidence and Ethics will shape all of SPACE's academic work and builds on developments including the independent review of emerging technologies in policing. SIPR itself is a strategic collaboration between member universities, Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority. It has helped to forge strong links between policing and the academia, as recently shown in the ENU-hosted Neurodiversity and Policing conference. Like this: Like Related
Time Out
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Massive video projections are coming to the Manhattan Bridge and Dumbo
If you find yourself strolling through Dumbo in the next month, make sure to stay until sundown. Starting this month and continuing until the end of May, the iconic neighborhood is bringing back its large-scale projection series, which will display huge works of art on the Manhattan Bridge and the BQE, all for free. The Dumbo Projection Project began displaying this season's artwork earlier this month and will continue on through May 25 from dusk til 11pm, Wednesdays through Sundays. If you're looking to find the perfect spot to see the art, make sure you have a clear line of vision towards the Manhattan Bridge on both the Pearl Street and Adams Street sides, as well as along the BQE at Susan Smith McKinney Seward Park. From now until April 27, you'll be able to catch a glimpse of SPACE, an exhibition that explores space in its many manifestations, including what it means to be in space, to have space, and to be a part of space. If you want to know what you're looking at specifically, here it is: On the Manhattan Bridge, you'll see Runway: From the Mars Desert Research Station and Does it work on Mars? by Juan José Cielo. Then, on the BQE in Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park, you'll catch a glimpse of artwork called Letters to Home II by Leonardo Madriz. If you plan to check out the projections from May 1 to May 25, the exhibition on display will be Unexpected Delight!, an installation created by the Interactive Telecommunications Program graduate students at NYU. As the name suggests, the theme of those projections is "unexpected delight," which aims to surprise passerby and encourage them to marvel at the spaces we occupy and as well as the infrastructure around us. It's a fancy way of saying prepare to be gagged by the art. If you want more in-depth information on the art on display, projection tours will be given monthly during the neighborhood's First Thursday Gallery Walks. Details will be posted on the Dumbo Improvement District's website.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
‘Blaze star' might go nova soon; what to expect
SPACE (KXAN) — A rare nova could occur in the next few nights. Called T Coronae Borealis, the 'Blaze Star' and 'T CrB' by astronomers, the binary star system could produce an explosion visible to the naked eye. Located about 3,000 light years from Earth, the 'Blaze Star' is actually two stars. One is a white dwarf star, dead and shriveled, about the size of Earth. The other is an ancient red giant star that's slowly being devoured by the smaller star. According to NASA, during a nova event, the white dwarf releases a massive explosion. The star will stay intact after this explosion, unlike during a supernova, in which the star explodes. These explosions reoccur every few years. The explosion will create a bright spot in the sky that will last about a week. The last time the star's eruption was seen happened in 1946. The 'Blaze Star' is located in the 'Northern Crown,' a horseshoe-shaped curve of stars located to the west of the Hercules constellation. This constellation is found by looking east. According to NASA, the best way to locate the star is to find Arcturus and Vega, two of the brightest stars in the night sky this time of year, and drawing a line between them. The star will be visible about four hours after sunset this month. Once it explodes, the bright nova will be about the same brightness as the North Star. The 'Blaze Star' was originally expected to explode in 2024. The dimming of the star system that year led many to believe it would explode soonish. 'Recurrent novae are unpredictable and contrarian,' said Dr. Koji Mukai, a fellow astrophysics researcher at NASA Goddard, in a statement released last year. 'When you think there can't possibly be a reason they follow a certain set pattern, they do – and as soon as you start to rely on them repeating the same pattern, they deviate from it completely. We'll see how T CrB behaves.' It is important to note, because of the distance between the Earth and this star system, that we're actually seeing an explosion that occurred 3,000 years ago. Because the system is 3,000 light-years away, it takes 3,000 years for the light to actually reach us. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
