The Stockman, Auberge Collection sells $90M in 60 days, bringing Steamboat Springs its first ski-in, ski-out luxury branded residence.
The Stockman, Auberge Collection sells $90M in 60 days, bringing Steamboat Springs its first ski-in, ski-out luxury branded residence.
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There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over Steamboat Springs in the hour before the lifts start turning — smoke curling off the hot springs, ranch hands already out on the flats, powder waiting untouched on Mount Werner. It’s a town that has spent a century resisting the glossier instincts of its neighbors. No Aspen fur coats. No Vail cobblestones built to look older than they are. Just cowboys who happened to be excellent skiers, and a downtown that still calls itself Ski Town, U.S.A.® without irony.
That quiet just got interrupted.
The Stockman, Auberge Collection — a nine-story, slopeside residential and hotel project rising at the base of Steamboat Resort — has entered the market with a number that has real estate brokers up and down the Yampa Valley checking their math twice. Since its soft launch earlier this year, more than $90 million in residences has gone under contract in sixty days, including three of the project’s signature rooftop “Barn” homes, the priciest and most coveted units in the building. Nobody has to sell Steamboat anymore. Increasingly, it seems, Steamboat sells itself.
The Stockman Residences – Steamboat Springs
For years, Steamboat has occupied an odd position in the hierarchy of American ski towns — routinely mentioned in the same breath as Aspen, Vail, and Deer Valley, then just as routinely passed over by the ultra-luxury development that transformed each of those markets. It has the terrain. It has the snow, that famously dry Champagne Powder® that skis like nothing else in Colorado. What it hasn’t had, until now, is a true ski-in, ski-out address built to the standard those other towns take for granted.
The Stockman is designed to close that gap in one move. Developed by Stockman Development LLC and led by Marquee Development, the project sits directly at the base area, a short glide from North America’s longest and fastest ten-person gondola. When it opens, it will be Steamboat’s first luxury branded residence — and the first project of its kind to pair true base-area access with a globally recognized hospitality name.
That name is Auberge Collection, the operator behind Hotel Jerome in Aspen and Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley, among other properties built on the idea that a hotel should feel like the place, not an import from somewhere else. For Steamboat, that meant a design brief rooted less in alpine cliché and more in the valley’s actual history: ranching.
Walk the architectural plans and the influence is unmistakable. Nunzio Marc DeSantis Architects led interior and residential design, with OZ Architecture handling the building’s architecture, and both firms leaned into the barns, corrals, and working structures that have shaped this valley since long before anyone strapped on skis. The result is a building that reads as Western vernacular scaled up to nine stories — timber, stone, deep overhangs, and a material palette that owes more to a hayloft than a chalet.
Nowhere is that more literal than at the top of the building, where thirteen rooftop “Barn” residences crown the project — full-floor and duplex homes with double-height ceilings, exposed structure, and wraparound views that stretch from the ski runs to the valley floor. They are, quite deliberately, oversized ranch structures reimagined as penthouses, and they are the residences moving fastest: three sold before the building has broken ground on its full construction schedule.
Below the Barns, the building steps down into 95 total residences ranging from studios to five-bedroom family homes, most with private balconies, chef’s kitchens, and a choice between two curated interior palettes — one leaning into that ranch-house warmth, the other tuned for a cleaner, more contemporary register. Pricing across the collection runs from roughly $1.6 million to $19 million, a spread wide enough to capture both a first-time mountain buyer and someone shopping for a legacy property.
Auberge properties tend to work less like hotels and more like well-run small towns, and The Stockman has been laid out with that instinct in mind. A Wellbeing by Auberge spa anchors one end of the program — over ten thousand square feet built around thermal bathing, contrast therapy, and the kind of unhurried recovery that a ski day actually demands. A heated outdoor pool and hot tubs run year-round. There’s a dedicated ski concierge and butler service for the walk to and from the mountain, four distinct dining concepts scattered through the building, and a ballroom-anchored event space for the inevitable wedding season.
Perhaps more telling is the ground-floor promenade threading through the base of the building — conceived not as a private lobby but as a genuine gathering place, open to owners, hotel guests, and Steamboat locals alike. It’s a small design decision that says something larger about how this project sees itself: less a gated compound bolted onto the mountain, more a new front porch for the town itself.
That instinct extends to ownership as well. Residences come with an optional turnkey rental program operated by Auberge Collection itself, letting owners hand off the logistics of furnishing, staffing, and booking to the same team running the hotel next door — the increasingly familiar branded-residence trade of full-time ownership for part-time hassle.
The timing isn’t an accident. The Stockman follows directly on Steamboat Resort’s $220 million “Full Steam Ahead” investment — new lifts, expanded terrain, and a broader push to modernize the mountain’s infrastructure after decades of comparatively modest capital spending. Add a first-ever luxury branded residence at the base area, and the pitch to buyers writes itself: a resort investing seriously in itself, a town that still feels unmistakably like a town, and a building finally built to the standard the terrain has always deserved.
Sales are being led by Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Intermountain Properties, under director of sales Suzanne Schlicht, alongside veteran agent Beth Postemski and local broker Madisen Ladley — a team with deep roots in the valley’s previous generation of high-end projects. Construction is slated to break ground this year, with the hotel and residences scheduled to open together in 2030.
For now, the building exists mostly as renderings and a very large number. But in a town that has spent a hundred years quietly proving itself against louder neighbors, that number might be the least surprising part of the story.
The Stockman, Auberge Collection is located at 1965 Ski Time Square Dr Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
Springs, Colorado. For inquiries: 970-875-6565 or thestockmanresidences.com
