Can $3 Billion Make Vermont's Killington Rival the Ski Resorts of the West?
Developer Great Gulf has hired world-class architects to build the resort’s first-ever village—and add plenty of luxurious bells and whistles.
Beginner skiers take to the slopes at Killington Ski Resort on February 18, 2025.
Photographer: Liao Pan/Getty ImagesFor all of its 67 years, Vermont’s Killington, the largest ski resort on the East Coast, has operated without a feature that many skiers and snowboarders consider essential. It doesn’t have a village—a pedestrian-friendly hub full of restaurants and retail stores—to serve as the sort of glue that holds many other major ski areas together.
Now a minority owner of the resort, the Canadian developer Great Gulf is poised to spend $3 billion over the next 20 years to right that wrong. Designing the new Killington village is Safdie Architects, a firm whose accomplishments include the Stonehenge-like Marina Bay Sands resort and the Jewel Changi Airport retail complex, two Singapore attractions of global renown.