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Show The Utah Enterprise Review, March 16 . 1977 Page 3b Plans for Park City Aero Tech Sells to Toromont Continued from page lb' include a restaurant as well as a reception area, he added. The proposal is crowned by plans to construct a $500,000 chairlift connecting the Coalition Building to the ski hill, and further plans from Wright to operate an antique trolley car up and down the steep Main Street hill, servicing all the merchants in the little town. Residents Wary- - After hearing the plans last week, the city council took the proposal under advisement. According to Jan Wilking, councilman, citizens arc concerned the hillside is too steep to develop. Residents now living along Park Avenue, near the Coalition Building and the depot, have expressed a desire to keep the area residential. And the chairlift idea may run into financing trouble. Despite the objections, however, Wilking expressed a personal hope the project could become a reality. If Main Street is to be developed, I think Wally Wright is the kind of developer we want, Wilking said. Regarding financing, Prince said. If the project doesnt work, it won't be because of financing. He said he feels confident the three men have adequate financial resources among them to execute the plan. Prince added, however, he does not want a fight with Park City residents. "We will back off from a fight, he said. According to The Mews-papea Park City weekly, the proposal calls for construction to begin this summer. A Canadian manufacturing company specializing in industrial refrigeration equipment has acquired 100 percent of the stock of Aero Tech Manufacturing, Inc., a Bountiful precision sheet metal firm for an undisclosed sum. Although another news report priced the transaction at $700,000, Aero Tech president, W.G. Bain said that figure was "not accurate. According to Bain, the acquisition of the seven year old firm will allow them to expand. Beginning in 1969 with five people, Bain now' employs 50 workers and expects to hire about 20 more this year. He indicated Aero Tech will manufacture sheet metal to be used in refriger ation equipment made by Toromont and its U.S. subsidiary Lewis Refrigeration Co. Aero Tech specializes in producing sheet metal for computer and printing companies. Bain estimated the companys present sales volume to be $1.5 million a year. r, Skaggs Experiments with Management Timetable Working six days a week, as many of them do, retail store managers find little time to spend with their families. But at least one company has decided to give their managers a break. According to Quinn McKay, senior vice president of Skaggs Drug Centers, Inc., a new management schedule, adopted in 50 test stores, will try to give managers at least two five-day-wee- a month. ks Thir- teen of the 50 stores are in Utah. The new schedule was adopted in the pilot group during the last week of February. The changeover meant Skaggs had to hire an additional member of the management team for each store. we But, Quinn said, esthought the move wfas He said Skaggs sential. wanted to have "a minimal influence in breaking up y and a families, week was just too hard on managers' families. six-da- "We have tried several other changes before in an attempt to compensate our store managers for their long hours. But we have never had such a favorable reaction to a plan as we did to this one, McKay said. The plan was introduced to the managers during a meeting at the Salt Lake Hilton during the first week of February. Prior to this, each store had four managers. The new plan calls for hiring a warehouse manager and training the pharmacy manager to become a store manager. McKay said the company has not estimated how much the plan w ill cost, but expects an increase in productivity to result. We expect a change in attitude and a lift in spirits, McKay said. rt in the office is the i The Art Gallery 227 South State hallmark of a cultured man. Exchange Place is one of the very few streets in Salt Lake which can be said to have a personality of its own. It s not a six lane highway . . . wide streets are fine for automobiles, narrow ones are more suited to people... Exchange Place is intimate, sophisticated and congenial. Prime office and commercial locations are now available in either of three landmark buildings in this distinctive area. The Boston Building. Commercial Club Building and Judge Building offer suites from single offices to entire floors as well as excellent ground floor commercial space. No matter what your business, youll discover the Exchange Place Associates buildings to be exceptionally convenient places in which to do it. If your firm is interested in securing a location that combines professional elegance with cosmopolitan flair, call Harold Hill at 53 6879 or visit him in suite 310 in the Boston Building. 1 CHANCE PLACE ASSOCIATES 363-49- 41 IWonliiUiiv AiimiTaiK JuM V A lii 50 IV'skrilViUiv Sill LiL City lluili fym- - v u lv Vik knp I IrliJiav 801-1-6- 8 |