Ski resort up for sale at €800,000
Alpine cross-country centre on the market as owner wants to retire
A SKI resort in the Alps is going up for sale from €800,000 - complete with seven ski-lifts covering 12 pistes and access to 100km of cross-country skiiing, beginners' slope, 29 snow cannons and a ski hire shop.
The Fourgs resort at 1,200m in Haut-Doubs, is being sold as the owner wants to retire and has not been able to get any of his children to take over.
Owner Roland Bulle-Piourot said that the Jura resort, which he opened with his brother-in-law in 1972, was in good health but, at 68, he was now past retirement and wanted to take life a bit easier.
This weekend the resort, which extends over the slopes of the Rangs, Meuse and Granges-Berrard ski areas and runs along the Swiss border, hosts the popular Franco-Suisse Ronde des Cimes 10km and 30km cross-country races.
Three potential Savoyard buyers have already shown an interest but want to see potential land access problems resolved before they take their interest further.
If no buyer is found by 2014 then the commune of Fourgs will be obliged to take it over as the ski-lifts are seen by the state as a public service.
A nearby resort, Entre-les-Fourgs, was sold for a symbolic €1 to a voluntary association in 2011 after failing to find a buyer - but is today still thriving.
Fourgs ski resort - www.station-lesfourgs.com/
