State program’s extension boosts Stanley film center plan

ESTES PARK — A film center and museum dedicated to the horror-film genre has been given new life thanks to an extension of a state grant for tourism projects.

Construction of the second phase of the $40 million center at the iconic Stanley Hotel that feeds off the Stanley’s haunted history — including its role in the novel and subsequent 1980 film “The Shining” — will begin this spring, hotel owner John Cullen said. The project’s green light came after Thursday’s unanimous vote by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade’s Economic Development Commission extended…