NEWBURY, N.H. (AP) – Officials at Mount Sunapee ski resort say they are less likely to continue investing in improvements, now that it looks like they won’t be able to expand the area to slopeside condos anytime soon.

General Manager Jay Gamble says it doesn’t make sense to put more money into the resort.

Resort owners Tim and Diane Mueller, who lease Mount Sunapee from the state, want to expand the resort to connect it to land in neighboring Goshen, where they want to build condos.

Gov. John Lynch has promised to block the expansion, either by keeping it from coming to the Executive Council, or vetoing it if the council approves the plan.

“We are being asked to relinquish part of our state park for the purpose of enhancing the value of a private condominium complex,” Lynch said earlier this month.

Gamble said he has given up hope of trying to change Lynch’s mind, saying the governor has “proven to be completely unfair and unreasonable.”

The Muellers have invested about $14 million in Sunapee since they began running the resort in 1998.

Gamble said the Muellers will move forward with their plan to buy more than 120 acres that border the state park land in question. The owner of that property has an option agreement with the resort and is seeking subdivision approval.

Aside from maintenance projects, the resort has no ski trail, chairlift of snowmaking improvements scheduled for this year, according to its latest operating plan. The only planned improvements are the repaving of a parking lot, exterior work to Sunapee Lodge and the construction of a maintenance building.