Colorado officials gives Stanley Hotel more money, time to build film center

The Colorado Economic Development Commission decided Tuesday to throw a bit more time and money at the effort to facilitate a sale of the Stanley Hotel and fund construction of a film center on the iconic Estes Park property.

The Stanley Film Center, a long-planned but notoriously stubborn-to-build facility that will celebrate the horror genre inside the lodge that inspired Stephen King’s “The Shining” novel, was initially required to be completed this year. Last fall, the EDC approved an extension through the end of 2027, and now that deadline has been moved to the end of 2028. Because the film center project requires significant public funding, which now also includes a new $1 million Economic Development Commission Strategic…