August 3,1995

HOFFMAN-WEST REAL ESTATE

Bob West=

Bob West has now formed a n= ew dynamic partnership with Terry Hoffman known as Hoffman-West Real Estate.&= nbsp; The president and owner of “The Robert Dean West Company” real estate brokerage and investments, a successful company he founded four years ago, Bob has over 29 years experience in the local= real estate industry.

Among his endeavors, he recently developed the new PUD in Avon for Lot 61 near the new Avon Gondola terminal and successfully sold the property at the highest price per square foot for a land transaction ever achieved in Eagle County. A land investor and developer, Bob= has been involved in numerous land acquisitions and sales.

The marketing plan for the Ranches at Five Pine Mesa, a luxury priced ranchland development in southern R= outt County while servin= g as an associate broker at The Forbes Real Estate Group was another of his successes. =

West has served as a consultant to the Beaver Creek Metropolitan District prepar= ing an extensive vacant land inventory survey of the Eagle River corridor. He was a senior ass= ociate broker at Slifer Smith and Frampton/Vail Associ= ates Real Estate and wrote the marketing and sales plan and served as sales administrator and marketing director for the exclusive 90 homesites at Mountain Star subdivision in Avon. There he handled the sales of homesites = and top of the line custom and spec homes.&nbs= p; He was a key member of the development team from the conceptual stage through project completion and reported directly to the principal partners = at East-West Partners, the developers.

Before the merger of SSF with Vail Associates, West was a founding member of the s= ales team at Smith and Frampton Real Estate which quickly merged with Slifer & Company and was significant in positioni= ng SSF as the largest brokerage firm in Eagle County specializing= in new product sales of East-West Partners developments.

While at Vail Associates Real Estate he facilitated a key in-holding land acquisi= tion on Vail <= st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">Mountain for Vail Associates, Inc.= West successfully marketed all of = the large rural residential parcels at the Wolcott Springs subdivision west of Vail, the high-end Ironwood Townhomes and Creekside Condominiums in Beaver Creek Resort and Casolar del Sol subdivision in Vail and the original sale of the Vail Athletic Club= now known as the Vail Mountain Lodge and was also instrumental in the original offering of Wildridge home= sites and Sunridge condominiums. He handled the sale of development parcels in Beaver Creek Resort and marketed the original sales of Townsend Place condominiums.

Larger land sales included the historic Bar-Bell Ranch in Buford, Colorado to Henr= y Kravis and the sale of 7600 acres of land now known a= s the R-Lazy-J Ranch in Meeker, Colorado of which he was operations and resource manager for three years.

He handled the very first homesite sale in Beaver = Creek in 1979 and in 1982 during the fledgling years of the resort he was named to the original staff of Beaver Creek Properties, a division of Vail Associate= s, Inc.

A graduate of the Regent’s College of the University of the State of New York, he hol= ds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature.

In the Vail Valley he has served on the Fundraising Committee, the Grand Openi= ng Committee and the President’s Circle for the Vil= ar Center for the Arts, the 1999 World Alpine Ski Championships Committee, the Pines Townhome Association Board of Directors, = Vail Valley Foundation Social Committee, Presidents Circle and Encore Club, the National Advisory Board for the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, Friends of Betty Ford and Vail Valley Arts Council Inner Circle.

He is a member of the Beaver Creek Club and Beaver Creek Property Owner’= s Association, He has also been a Founding Member of the Realtor’s Council for the Bravo! Colorado music festival, and is present= ly a Lifetime Member of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and is a member of the Vail Board of Realtors and a past member of the Urban Land Institute.<= /o:p>

A frequent contributor to charities and causes he has been a past supporter of the Vail Valley Youth Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Echo Ranch, Beaver Creek Chapel, Vail Valley Religious Foundation and Beaver Creek Religious Foundation, Ski Club Vail, Eagle Valley Library, Steadman-Hawkins Sports Medicine Foundation, Vail Institute, Meet the Wilderness, the Eagle Valley Family Assistance Fund and the Eagle County Merit Scholarship Fund.

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