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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, October 1 - 4, 2005 The Park Record CITY BEAT Property draws 13 ide A-3 CITY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-9OI4ext.UI citynews@parkrecord.com Fall Season Locals Prix Fixe Menu Available Daily for Dinner First Course, choice of: Heart of Romaine Caesar Salad - Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup - 45 item fresh Salad Bai\ Entries Choices: (all entrees served with choice of baked potato,harvest rice, creamed spinach or mashed potatoes) - Slow Roasted Prime Rib of Beef, 12 oz - Filet of Red Trout baked on Maple infused Cedar Plank, brushed with Orange Basil Butter - Hunters Mixed Grill of Wild Boar Sausage, Elk Sirloin and GrubSteak Tender - Elk Sirloin with Lingonberry Preserve - 28 Day aged Black Angus New York Steak - Grilled Filet of Mahi Mahi G-Bar Ranch Chopped Game Sirloin of Buffalo, Elk and Black Angus Beef, topped with Sage Butter Desserts: Any selection of our Dessert tray, including: Chocolate Suicide Cake with Raspberry Coulis - Cremc Brulde - Bread Pudding with Vanilla Bourbon Sauce - Mango Cream Pie with Pineapple Coulis COMPLIMENTARY CORKAGE 2 4 . / 5 £ + tax and gratuity ) Corner of Sidewinder and Gold Dust, Prospector Square 649-8060 www.grubsteakrestaurant.com Moab*s GRAYSON WEST/PARK the property for his glass-blowing studio but was unable to complete the deal. Each of them has intrigued the government but, with the new competition, it is unclear if City Hall remains interested. Butz said the Park City Council,1 which will decide whether to pick one oP the proposals, prefers a bulk sale of the property. Butz said the interested parties were required to submit financial information but City Hall had not analyzed the numbers by the middle of the week. Butz said the government has the responsibility of ensuring that it is getting a good deal on the taxpayer-owned property. Butz said she expects that the government, if it sells the property, will require the buyer to retain its historic nature, like the facades. jui, jaiu u t i s c i i and dliu She said herself about creating something By JAY HAMBURGER authentic and real." Sonntag Of the Record staff said, adding that his team plans Park City officials are mulling to renovate the property if 13 ideas for the so-called Watts Promontory is picked. property, a landmark Old Town He said Promontory's bid is parcel that City Hall owns but is for the entire Watts property. interested in possibly selling. "It could be a wonderful The government received the venue for our members," he said. proposals by the Sept. 21 deadMeanwhile, David Bertinelli, line, said Alison Butz, who man- who has rented a house at 664 ages City Hall's properties. The Woodside Ave. on the Watts city is refusing to discuss the property for 10 years, said he details of the proposals and Butz submitted a bid to purchase the declined reveal who submitted. house. "You have the full gamut of He rented the house before things. That's, I think, what was City Hall bought the property in so interesting to see," she said. a $920,000 deal with Burnis State law allows the govern- Watts in 1997. ment to be secretive regarding "(Rachel) and I have made it the proposals. City Hall is into a home, not a house," he allowed to discuss buying and selling property LL behind closed doors, SO mUCh Of Promontory iS abOUt Phyllis Robinson, who meaning in the Watts case j_, . , . works in the city's execA, that Parkites may never were the learn the details of the creating something authentic and real. utiVe offices, were proposals other than if .. It could be a wonderful venue for our only people to review the proposals but she one is picked or the peoexpected to brief City ple who applied make members." Manager Tom Bakaly public their plans. Rich Sonntag before the weekend. Some have said that C i t y they intended to submit Promontory managing director C o u n c i l w o m a n applications and, this Marianne Cone said on week, two people told said, describing that the house is Thursday she had not The Park Record that they filed "full of warmth, full of love." been briefed about the proposals bids. Bertinelli said he submitted but was happy with the number Previously. Peter Roberts, two bids for the house but did submitted. who wants to launch a glass- not provide details. "I'm very pleased. It gives blowing studio on the property, An August appraisal valued choices, I hope it does," she said. and David Perkins, whose ideas the property at a little more than Cone said she envisions the is to open a whiskey distillery at $1.9 million, with the main the site, had said they would sub- house, at 703 Park Ave., property being used in a manner that allows public access. mit bids. They did not immediappraised at $815,000, the garage She said the glass-blowing stuately return phone calls seeking at $620,000 and the Woodside dio and the distillery are fine comment this week. Avenue house where the ideas and said that the property In interviews this week, an Bertinellis live at $485,000. A might not work as a retailer. official with the Promontory one-car garage is also on the "People just go to Main development and a renter on the land. Street" for shopping, she said. Watts property said they submitThe Watts property is one of She said the idea from ted bids. City Hall's most-prized real- Promontory clashes with her Rich Sonntag, the managing estate holdings. For the eight desire that the public be allowed director of Promontory, located years it has held the property, inside but she appeared positive east of Park City, said he wants there have been intermittent about the ideas for the glassto turn the Watts property into a ideas presented to the governblowing studio and the whiskey lodge for the people who live in ment. The interest, though, was distillery. his development. It would be a growing this year, leading the "I think it's pretty fascinating. private facility not open to the government to seek the proposI think people enjoy it," she said general public. als. about the glass-blowing idea. He touts the Watts property as The ideas from Perkins and About the distillery proposal, a good complement to the rest of Roberts have been widely publi- she said, "It kind of fits our alterthe Promontory development. cized for months and Roberts native lifestyle up here from the "So much of Promontory is had previously won the right for rest of the state." BACK-U-UP Selection - 2U Vehicle Brands Available Convenience - 26 Sales & Service Locations from Ogden to Provo food & fun I UTAH Atrium Bnr S- Re^tviumnt ^ - Authentic Loep Gear &• Gif-fc Shop BREAKFAST - LUNGM • OXNINTER. CORNER OF CENTER ANT> TvLAXtSt - MOAJE1 435-2S9-8OO4 Come in and visit usforour loca! specials at the Park City Pizza Hut 435-649-3838 Local f>p*<Oa\ "Hiroucjh Oct. ?O. ZtM>5 1750 Sidewinder Rd Or our Heber Store 2. 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