CONWAY — The fire-damaged North Conway hilltop resort formerly known as the Red Jacket Mountain View is scheduled to be back before the Conway Planning Board at 6 p.m. tonight as the new owners present their plans for reconstruction and site improvements.
Now known as the Birchmont Resort (the property’s name prior to the building of the Red Jacket in 1971), the inn’s south wing was burned in an April 30, 2022, major fire whose cause was never established.
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