Category Archive For "Development"
If You Don’t Want 5 Story Buildings in Bonanza Park You Better Speak Up
This morning Park City City Manager, Diane Foster, was on KPCW and was asked about the Bonanza Park form-based code redevelopment. Ms Foster said that people were concerned that there would be “8 story buildings” accompanying a Bonanza Park redevelopment and they were happy to learn that they would actually be 3 story buildings with …
The Battle For Boyer Heats up (Again)
In the Snyderville Basin, there are roughly four obvious areas for development: Silver Creek, the area by Home Depot, land north of Highway 40, and the Boyer Tech Park. The homes are starting to pop up in Silver Creek, 1000 units are planned near Home Depot, and the Highway 40 land is awaiting treatment per the EPA. What …
Thoughts on Park City Heights
Over the weekend we took the opportunity to visit the site where Park City Heights is being built near Quinn’s Junction, behind the movie studio. Park City Heights is a master planned community approved by the Park City Planning Commission in 2011. The site will have approximately 240 units with a mix of market rate homes …
Will Woodward Park City Find a Home at the Gorgoza Sledding Park?
We heard interesting speculation over the weekend. Someone asked what POWDR Corp was planning on doing with the Gorgoza sledding hill since it wasn’t part of the PCMR sale to Vail. Another person mentioned “wouldn’t that make a good home for Woodward Park City?” Woodward Park City is the facility they were going to put at the base …
Do You Want Manufacturing, Office Space, Townhomes, and Assisted Living Between Jeremy Ranch Elementary and Burt Brothers?
A developer is requesting input from the Planning Commission around using almost 11 acres acres of land between Jeremy Ranch Elementary School and the Burt Brothers for manufacturing, office space, an assisted living facility, and town homes. This use is not currently available via the General Plan; however, a Specially Planned Area (SPA) could be approved that would …
Park City Builders Should Be Happy with Vail’s Acquisition
Did Vail buy PCMR for the skiing? Maybe not. After reading this financial blurb on the acquisition, it’s going to be good for Park City builders… Vail get’s steal and 682,000 sq feet of land approved for residential and commercial development
Your County Did a Good Job Tonight
While you were having dinner, a fierce battle was being fought. On one side stood D.R. Horton, the largest home builder in the United States. On the other side stood four members of your County Council. At stake was a project called the Discovery Core, a proposed housing development above the Weilenmann school. D.R. Horton, the …
History says the movie studio will fail
It took years to finally get the movie studio underway. Ground finally broke on the Raleigh studio site, amid the promise of additional jobs and diversifying the local economy. Not only was it going to house a movie studio but also include a teaching venue, with a local university training people in film-industry trades. “So you’re …
Highway 224 Interrupted
As I drive up 224 toward town, just past Park City Nursery, I pass a plot of land with two old trees guarding a large piece of open space. I begin thinking about the drive. Sure, Kimball Junction is a mess, but once I get past that I feel like I’m in mountain town. There …
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