Mitchell sells hostel, to focus on Nederland

BOULDER – Ron Mitchell, longtime owner and manager of the Boulder International Hostel, a youth hostel on University Hill, has sold the property for $4.4 million and now plans to focus his attention on redeveloping property in downtown Nederland.

The hostel, at 1107 12th St., was closed last summer and now is occupied by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. A company owned by Mitchell, Boulder International Hostel Ownership LLC, sold the building to 1107 12th LLC, according to property records.

Mitchell, 74, said he is leaving the hostel business partly because his wife wants him to retire and because his adult daughters…