Scott Brown
Telluride, Colorado, United States
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linkedin.com/in/scottvanbrown
Summary
Deal Guy---One of the original founders of the re-birth of Telluride, Colorado, starting in 1971. Served as Chm. SMC P&Z, Chm Telluride Housing Authority, founder of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Telluride Film Festival, Telluride Council Arts and Humanities, Chm Tellluride Mountainfilm Festival, Founder Telluride Tech Festival, restored five National Historic Landmark Buildings, owned the Bank of Telluride, Telluride Times Newspaper and Telluride Magazine and Scott Brown Realty and most recently founder and Chairman: Spaceport America Enterprises with offices in New Mexico and Colorado. We build community and communities, downtowns, and town centers our specialty, also spaceports,and futuristic cities, Tech and innovation centers and prototype/demonstration space colonies. Specialties: Organizing, Solutions Provider, Public Relations, Marketing, Advertising, Festival Promoter, Real Estate, Workforce & Affordable Housing, Construction, Development, Consulting, science and technology. http:// www.forbes.com/pictures/ehkj45egihd/telluride-co/
Experience
Superior, Colorado--Town Center Development
Scott Brown Realty and Developmen
Jan 2017 - Present (5 years 11 months +)
Developed 350 acre Superior Town Center development wh Founder--Telluride Tech Fest/Bluegrass/Film/Arts/Historic Restoration, Telluride Airport, SM County
Scott Brown Enterprizes
Jan 1971 - Present (51 years 11 months +)
Affordable Housing Special Consultant, Developer and Evangelist Affordable Housing International
Jan 1972 - Present (50 years 11 months +)
Organized group of Colorado ski resort leaders in 1972 with the Aspen Institute to address affordable housing. The outcome of the gathering was the idea of "deed restrictions" which allow communities to build and cause to be built residential units for both rental and ownership housing that are in perpetuity. Saul Wurman was the Chairman and the gathering morphed into what we now know as TED. Chairman
Super Development Corp.
Jan 1971 - Present (51 years 11 months +)
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Chairman of Colorado based real estate development company, property management, historical restoration and financial consulting company with successful projects in Colorado, California, Florida, Arizona, and New Mexico over more than forty years.
"We build community in and around great communities." Recently completed Town Center development project in Superior, Colorado located just a couple of miles from Boulder, Louisville, Broomfield and Lafayette. Project included 500 single family homes, five hotels, Apartments, Tesla Dealership, numerous restaurants, and the largest Indoor Sports Facility in five states with three sheets of hockey ice, swimming, basketball, volleyball, orthopedic offices, and famed restaurant and bar and numerous parks and outdoor music facilities. Conde Naste magazines has recognized Telluride as the best ski resort community in the world so many times, we have retired the trophy.
Chairman
Spaceport Enterprises
2010 - Present (12 years 11 months +)
"To the Stars"
Promoting, building, developing and creating a workable and achievable vision for futuristic, demonstration and prototype colonies on the Moon and Mars utilizing Spaceports as Planet Earth launch and innovation centers for real life citizen astronauts of the world to gather and create a sustainable future for humans. We spent two years living and working in Engel, New Mexico the home of Spaceport America from the ground breaking. We are now working on "spaceports" in Colorado, Florida and Texas.
Founder
Telluride Tech Festival
2000 - Present (22 years 11 months +)
A celebration of the past, present and future of technology and founded on the fact that in 1891, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and Telluride's own L.L. Nunn built the world's first commercial grade alternating current power plant in Telluride in 1891. Each year we honor science and technology leaders that have also changed the world. Honorees include: Ray Kurzweil, Richard Stallman, John Perry Barlow, Danny Hillis, David Clark, Lewis Branscomb, Jill Tarter, Sean Parker, John Dvorak, Vinton Cerf, Murray Gell-Mann, Tim Berners-Lee, Alan Kay, Sir Arthur Clarke, Charles Townes, Freeman Dyson, Manuel Castells, Steve Wozniak, Evi Nemeth, Peter Plantec, David Gerrold, Bruce Murray, Larry Smarr, Eric Allman, David Sinclair, Robt. Sproull, Bob Stein, Robt. Winter, Kirstie Bellman, Ted Selker, Scott Brown, Paul Vixie, Skip Ellis, Alex Repenning. As part of the launch of TechFest, we sponsored and raised the money to make the movie: Tesla: Master of Lightning which has been translated into more than 50 languages and shown to more than two billion people in the world. http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ Managing Partner
International Housing Solutions
Jan 1974 - Present (48 years 11 months +)
National Workforce Housing Consulting and Development Company which was started in Telluride and Aspen in the early 70's. One of the inventors of Workforce Housing as we know it today utilizing "deed restrictions" so housing will remain affordable and protected for future generations. Thousands of units Scott Brown - page 2
built or caused to be built thru the years and going strong with new projects in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Florida.
Chairman and CEO
Telluride Historical Restoration Company
Aug 1971 - Present (51 years 4 months +)
Starting in 1971 in restoring and saving rated National Historical structures in Telluride and San Miguel County. projects incluide: Belmont Building, 1972; Pick & Gad Bldg.( National Historic Landmark) 1974; Woods Blacksmith and Livery Bldg, Placerville, CO 1974; Sheridan Opera House (National Historic Landmark) (sub-contractor) 1974; The Cribs (National Historic Landmark) 1975; Sheridan Hotel;
(National Historic Landmark) 1985; Roma Bldg (National Historic Landmark) 1990; Nunn Residence;
(National Historic Landmark) 1990; Cornell House, National Historic Landmark)1998; Brown Residence; and the First National Bank Bldg (National Historic Treasure--rated, the same as the Statue of Liberty) which was personally awarded by President Bill Clinton in recognition that Telluride's own L.L. Nunn who joined forces with Nikola Tesla and George Westing house built the world's first alternating current power plant in Telluride in 1891. Following the success in Telluride, Tesla and Westinghouse demonstrated AC Power next to DC Power in the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago which was attended by more than 20 million people. In a much publicized competition the people voted that they approved of AC over DC and directly because of the demonstration and vote, Nikola Tesla was awarded the right to build a huge AC power plant at Niagara Falls which supplied power to the Northeast of the United States at a critical time in the Industrial Revolution in the world and America went on a few years later to demonstrate that industrial might in WWI and the rest is history. Licensee
ET3
Jan 2011 - Present (11 years 11 months +)
ET3 is literally "Space Travel on Earth". ET3 is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, and is electric.ET3 stands for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies. The company et3.com Inc. is an open consortium of licensees dedicated to global implementation of Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT). Our immediate focus is to finalize the location to build a production ready demonstration of ET3 to operate at 600km/ h (375mph)++. The ET3 demo requires 3 miles of straight right-of-way, and will showcase all elements necessary to network ET3 on a regional basis.
Chairman Of The Board
Superior Development Corp.
Jun 2010 - Dec 2020 (10 years 7 months)
Town Center Development Project in Superior, Colorado.
$700 million development project with 500 homes, five hotels, Tesla Dealership, and largest indoor Sports Facility in five states.
President, Employing Broker
Scott Brown Team of EXP Realty
1978 - 2012 (35 years)
Made a lot of wonderful friends over the years helping people find their vacation dream home in the most beautiful ski resort community in the country. Scott Brown - page 3
Founder
Telluride Film Festival
Jan 1974 - Jan 2000 (26 years 1 month)
Formed working partnership with Bill Card of Eastman Kodak, and Bill Pence to launch the Telluride Film Festival. The first year's honorees were Francis Ford Coppola, Gloria Swanson, and Leni Reifenstal. Thirty seven years later Telluride has claim to be the most important film festival in the world. As the Chairman and founder of the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities we established an event that showcased great film and story telling with arts, cultural and educational programs that allowed movie and film producer, directors, writers and cinematographers to work, teach and inspire local children and community members with the joy of making movies. Each year a number of local and visiting people are chosen for in depth and hands on tutoring and mentoring from some of Hollywood's best. The give back works both ways and has been recognized world wide as an example of how to share and inspire the next generation.
http://www.telluridefilmfestival.org/
Founding Member
Tomboy House/San Miguel Resource Center
Jan 1993 - Jan 1994 (1 year 1 month)
Domestic violence and sexual abuse response organization located in Telluride and expanded to include San Miguel County and the West End.
Chairman
Sinapu
Jan 1989 - Dec 1991 (3 years)
State and National organization to save the wolf and return wolves to our forests and lives. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25495282/endangered-gray-wolves-flourishing-rocky-mountain- region-feds
Chairman of the Board
Mountainfilm
Jan 1980 - Jan 1990 (10 years 1 month)
Mountainfilm is dedicated to providing a venue for adventure, educational, environmental and home made films. My original board was Chip Kamin, Yvon Chouinard, Henry Barber, Michael Kennedy, Lito Flores, Royal Robbins, and Bob Craig. Our honorees included a who is who of mountain adventure including Sir Edmund Hilary who I had the honor and pleasure of hiking Bear Creek with on a nice sunny Spring day.
CEO, Bank Holding Company
Bank of Telluride & Montrose County Bank
1978 - 1988 (11 years)
Purchased the Bank of Telluride in 1978 with local group when it was clear that the "only bank in town" would not loan money to the new locals who came to build the best ski resort and community in the world. Made loans to all of my friends and we built Telluride. Six years later the bank was rated the number one bank in the country for return on assets by the FDIC. Scott Brown - page 4
Publisher/Editor
Telluride Magazine
Feb 1974 - Jan 1980 (6 years)
Founder and Publisher of Telluride first and only full color magazine. Way ahead of its time, but very successful and going strong today.
Publisher/Editor
Telluride Times Newspaper
Mar 1973 - Jan 1979 (5 years 11 months)
Award winning local newspaper in Telluride during its early years. We won every award offered by the Colorado Press Association and led our community from ghost town to a center for arts, entertainment, nature, learning and open minded-ness.
Our enemy was mediocrity--we raised the bar.
Chairman: San Miguel County Planning Commission
San MIguel County
Jan 1972 - Sep 1978 (6 years 9 months)
Formed and served on SMC's first P&Z, initiated county Master Plan and zoning, established Telluride Regional Advisory Planning Commission that planned and zoned the Telluride Region including the Telluride Ski Resort and surrounding region. Planned and Zoned the Telluride Mountain Village, incubated, zoned and financed the Telluride Airport. As part of starting from "no zoning" we created TREPAC (Telluride Regional Planning Advisory Commission) which had five members from the development community representing the five major landowners (Town of Telluride, Ski Resort, Valley Floor, West Meadows and Aldasoro) and produced the blueprint and dream of the future of Telluride which included gondola linked transportation from Town to Mountain Village; Mountain Village to Valley Floor; Valley Floor to West Meadows; West Meadows to Aldasoro; and Aldasoro to Valley Floor. It was agreed that the total build out of the Telluride Region would be 15,000 in the year 2020 and 15% would be deed restricted affordable housing with both rental and ownership opportunities for full time locals. Founder and Chairman
Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities
Jan 1972 - Jan 1976 (4 years 1 month)
In 1972, the Telluride Ski Resort was born and Telluride rose from the depths of a mining ghost town. The most important and probably hardest part of re-birthing a town is the arts, culture, music and interesting people recruitment. TCAH was the beginning of one of the most successful productions in current history and is the umbrella organization for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival; Telluride Film Festival; Telluride Chamber Music Festival; Tellluride Mountainfilm; Telluride Tech Festival; Telluride Tesla Festival; Telluride Jazz Festival; Telluride New Year's Festival; Imogene Pass Race. Founder
Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Jan 1973 - Jan 1974 (1 year 1 month)
In 1973 in conjunction with the 4th of July Celebration I built a stage, hired a band--that happened to be a Bluegrass Band and we put on a show. The next year we started charging and now 37 years later Scott Brown - page 5
it is still going strong. Many of the most successful bands and musicians in the world got their start at Telluride. Awarded Best Music Festival in the World in 2015. http://www.westword.com/music/telluride-bluegrass-is-the-best-music-festival-in-the-world-according-to- pollstar-6578191
Education
The University of Kansas
BA, Journalism, Marketing, Business
1966 - 1971
Wichita High School Southeast
1964 - 1966
Skills
Public Relations • Marketing • Leadership • Entrepreneurship • Project Planning • Research • Real Estate • Social Media • Marketing Strategy • Strategic Planning Scott Brown - page 6