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Show A-3 *The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 16-18,2007 CITY BEAT Dinner time is long gone CITY EDITOR:Jay Hamburger 649-9OI4ext.l I I cltynews@parkrecord.com YEARS % DISCOUNT OF GREAT ON ALL DINNER LOCAL SUPPORT ENTREES VAUD UNTIL MAY SARAH AUSEJPARK RECORD 31 ST; 2007 OFFER NOT VAIID WITH ANY OTHER PROMOTION PURVEYOR OF GREAT STEAK AND SEAFOOD FOR THIRTY YEARS! Developers are considering options for the structure many know as the Cattle Company building, 1064 Park Ave. It could be demolished or refurbished. City Hall officials are reviewing plans that envision razing it and building three houses on the land. tial of it being historic will be key. City Hall tries to protect buildings from the city's silver-mining era and development on the site could be complicated if it is designated hisThe developers recently filed an By JAY HAMBURGER toric. application at City Hall to turn the "It's been altered significantly. Of the Record staff property into what are being billed Whether you can bring back its hisDevelopers are considering as the Tlth Street Cottages.' toric nature - probably problematAccording to the submittal, the options for the building that housed 11 the Brand X Cattle Company design envisions tearing down the ic, Robinson says. "It looks like a restaurant, dilapidated and forgot- Cattle Company structure and product of its alterations." A statement the developers subten on lower Park Avenue, part of building three houses on the propthe continued speculator interest in erty, located just north of the Town mitted to City Hall outlines their contention that the building is not Lift and a little south of City Park. Old Town. The Summit County Assessors historic, arguing that, "additions to The building, 1064 Park Ave., Office values the property at the building over the years have sits rundown in a neighborhood where lots of people invest money $288,419 and the owners paid allowed for any historic material to in an effort to make houses and $2,779.21 in taxes on the property in be removed and replaced" and the architecture and significance of the other buildings pretty for Parkites 2006. and visitors. But many have long The local government must building do "not contribute to the seen the Cattle Company building determine whether the building is historic value of the property or suras an eyesore, with the street-level historic, review the designs and sub- rounding area." The oldest parts of the space abandoned years ago and the divide the land the building sits on, building date to the 1920s, upper floor aging in when a boardinghousc operatfront of the drivers and pedestrians on Park t i "I don't know that we would start a ed inside, according to research by Hal Compton. a Avenue. movement to save it. . . It doesn't historian at the Park City "We're looking at Museum, published in The all the possibilities." compare, historically, with the Park Record in 1999. Compton says Michael Saltman, the Las Vegas man Centennial, the Star Hotel. Those aresays the building operated as an inn during the 1960s and who owns the building then as two restaurants, more important buildings." in a trust with his wife Adolph's White Haus and has a house on - Hal Compton, Restaurant and the Cattle nearby Empire Park City historian Company. Avenue. Compton says in an interHe says options M ^ ^ ^ ^ M view the owners could restore include demolishing the building or renovating it but a according to Brooks Robinson, a the building but he admits it is not decision has not been made. He City Hall planner. Robinson as important to Park City's history admits that the building is in "pret- expects those decisions will be as others that have been threatty rough" shape. Nobody has lived made in the summer during a series ened, such as the Centennial House on upper Main Street. in the apartments on the upper of public meetings. "I don't know that we would floors for about six months, he says. He says the three houses constart a movement to save it," templated in the application are "There's always the need for ll ever better quality of construction," reasonable requests, noting that the Compton says, adding, It doesn't Saltman says, touting Park City's land the building sits on is large compare, historically, with the Centennial, the Star Hotel. Those real-estate market, tourism and the enough to hold the houses. city's closeness to Salt Lake City. The decision about the poten- are more important buildings." Rundown Cattle Company building might be bulldozed for new houses POLICE BLOTTER vehicle may have been stolen on the 1800 block of Keams Boulevard. Officers found it had not been stolen and instead the man's wife hid had been egged and toilet-papered. it from him because he had been On Saturday, May 12 a house drinking, the police say. was reportedly toilet-papered someAn officer warned someone who lime before 6:53 a.m. on the 2200 drove a red pickup truck on the Rail block of Evening Star Drive. Trail at 8:23 p.m. Motorized vehicle Other incidents reported to the are barred from the trail, which once Police Department last week includ- was part of a railroad spur. ed: On Saturday, May 12 at 9:45 On Sunday, May 13 at 11:36 p.m., p.m., an officer stopped a driver, the police received a complaint a Please see Truant, A-4 Pranksters hit the Oaks, Evening Star Drive with toilet paper, eggs In the week after someone blew up the mailbox outside of Park City Councilman Jim Hier's Park Meadows house, more shenanigans, although not involving explosives, were reported in the city, the Police Department says. 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