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Show Slide boosts Park City business Since the opening applaudes any future plans Prince. Sweeney and Wright may have. His sporting goods store, in close proximity to the slide, has increased its business 300 percent since August. $350,000 Alpine Slide in Park City last month, partners John Prince. Jack Sweeney and Wally Wright have collected close to $240,000 in ticket And merchants in sales. the ski resort town have welcomed with open arms the more than 120,000 people who have swarmed the hillsides for a daring ride down the Were still only doing rcstuarants and retail shops in Park City as well, he claims. Whats more, the developers are just scratching the surface of summer recreat ional potential. ' You'll get no argument there from developer John Prince. Indeed, he said. "Lagoon has had the corner on the recreation market long enough. We expect to add a skateboard park, water slide and miniature golf course to the area next year. We want to expand the recreational choices at Park City so folks arent limited to the slide." 15 percent of our winter business. but we've added four employees this summer to accommodate the additional patrons from the slide," he said. The slide has affected all concrete chute. Jan Peterson, manager of Park Citys Wolfe's, says he Fre the pedal Buy One Get One Free Miner's Delight, an ice cream parlor located across town from the slide, has watched business increase 15 percent, owner Randall ThomThe increase pson says. was more apparent when the Alice Potato giant potato with seasoned hamburger, mushrooms, peppers, cheese, butter, sour cream and chives. Roast Beef Spud giant potato with roast beef and gravy with mushrooms. Fat Alfred giant potato with meat loaf and gravy with mushrooms. Potato Granger 3572 West 3500 South 261-280- 299-806- 3 Two financial companies have acquired the assets and liabilities of Salt Lake's Mon-ro- c Inc. for the "cash cquiv-lant- " of $8.37 million. According to H. B. Turof ner. & Co., shareholders of the closely held Monroe will receive the monetary equivalent of $15.50 per vice-preside- 2 We cater to large groups Take-ou- t Expires 103177 Weekends are especially busy." she said, since people are waiting for the lines at the slide to slack off." Her employees enjoed an added workday to their, week. she said. The slide itself brought 38 jobs to the resort town. Prince said. He is currently negotiating for the construction of a slide next summer in the Lake Tahoe region. As well, Prince says construction of other recreation sites in Park City should begin in the spring. off-seaso- full-tim- n e orders Free Coupon nt share. There are approx- imately 540,000 shares out- standing. he said. A privately-held company set up by Oppcnheimer and Colonial Commercial, both money-management-brokera- ge Op-penheim- er firms, made the acquisition. Part of the agreement, approved last week by Monroe shareholders, guaranteed the firms current management long-teremployment in their Nothing present positions. in the company has changed," Turner said. Turner wouldnt reveal details of the payment. Monroe is a producer of sand, gravel, and concrete products and distributes truck mounted equipment. m A one word guide to selling your business. other merchants are complaining about competition from new malls to the north, at least one downtown retailer appears determined to maintain his business. Were not going to sit here wringing our hands Crossroads being built," Alvin Richer, owner of Auerbach Co., told the Enterprise While ut last week. Richer said his department store, located at Third South and State, is being upgraded with remodeling and inclusion of new and better quality lines of mer- chandise because Auerbachs is concentrating on making itself the best darn store possible." Many downtown retailers in recent weeks have com- Monroe changes hands Pit Murray 6166 S. State slide first opened,'' he added, since children have returned to school and the weather has cooled off." Frances Smith, manager of the Caboose Restaurant, said the mood in Park City has changed to buy. buy, buy," since the slide opened. Competition no worry to Auerbach plained that the proposed $65 million Crossroads Plaza to be located between South Temple, First South, Main Street, and West Temple, will siphon business away from the rest in of the conjunction with the already-bui- lt ZCMI Center across the city-particu- larly street. Auerbach's this summer instituted a free bus service looping around three blocks downtown every 15 minutes between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Although he wouldn't reveal any figures. 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