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Show A-5 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 9-11, 2008 CITY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-9014 ext.1 11 cltynews@parkrecord.com CITY BEAT F-U-N-I-C-U-L-A-R is how it is spelled Construction starts on Deer Crest's people mover By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff The metallic tracks are giant as they climb a hillside just outside Snow Park Lodge in lower Deer Valley, looking almost like a miniature ski jump across a small road from the Snow Park parking lots. The tracks appeared in the last few weeks, after excavation crews dug out enough earth to install them, and they are part of a developer's plans to install a people mover between Snow Park and Deer Crest, the slopeside project under construction on the eastern edge of Deer Valley. Funicular cars, which are popular in Europe but rare in the U.S., will run on the tracks, taking people between two sections of the St. Regis, which is planned as a condominium hotel with some traditional condominiums as well. A check-in lobby and a valet driveway are among the offerings that will be at the lower DAVID RYDER/PARK RECORD funicular terminal, and the pri- Two funicular tracks are under construction just east of Deer Valley Resort's Snow Park parkmary St. Regis building will be at ing lots, part of the St. Regis development at Deer Crest. The funicular cars, though, will not the upper stop. start operating until the St. Regis opens, which is expected in spring 2009. Trips are expected to take 90 seconds. cars by December, but they land than the funicular does as enjoy the funicular. "We want our owners and would not start operating until well. "It's not going to be ruined," guests to have a comfortable the St. Regis opens. He says two or three similar he says about the view of the ride," says David Castleton, who That is planned in spring funiculars are installed each year hillside with the funicular. "You handles sales and marketing for 2009. will see the effect of a 'hill-aworldwide. DDRM, the developer of the Only St. Regis owners, people "This is going to be more a vator."1 Deer Crest St. Regis. staying there or people with feeling of riding on a cloud . . . It Wells, a longtime figure in The St. Regis will feature two reservations at a restaurant should be a soft ride,'* Beeley Park City development, says St. 15-person funicular cars, and inside the St. Regis will be able says. Regis chose the funicular as a both tracks are under construc- to board the funicular cars. The St. Regis anchors Deer method to reduce traffic as well. tion in a highly visible location. "It will be a smooth ride. It Crest, which stretches eastward It will especially cut the number The tracks will each be about will have incredible views,11 from Snow Park to a location of drivers heading to the St. 500 feet long. Castleton says, describing the just off U.S. 40 in Wasatch Regis on Queen Esther Drive Funicular cars are typically cars as having plush interiors County. and the northern stretch of Deer shaped like rectangles, and they and large tinted windows. Deer Crest, along with Valley Drive. Wells says. climb and descend on individual The developers considered Empire Pass at the southwest The three Park City-area tracks. installing a ski lift or a gondola edge of Deer Valley, represents a mountain resorts in the last The Deer Crest models are instead, but windy conditions at major expansion of residential decade have aggressively purmade by Doppelmayr, a compa- the location influenced them to development and ski terrain at sued upgrades, as the ski indusny that is known locally for its choose a funicular. the resort. try has enjoyed record-setting ski lifts and gondolas. Castleton Mike Beeley, a vice president Bob Wells, the vice president numbers. says the funicular cars, the tracks with Doppelmayr CTEC, a of Deer Valley Resort and the Castleion sees the funicular and the construction cost about domestic wing of the parent official who guides the resort's as another resort improvement $5.2 million. company, says alternatives such development plans, says St. that will be memorable. He hopes to test the funicular as a gondola would involve more Regis owners and guests will "Wow factor.11 he savs. I I I I I I I FRLLDINNLRLNTRLL When you purchase another entree of equal or greater value. I I I I I I Best Asian/Pacific Fine Dining WINNER BEST OF STATE Limit two coupons per party or table*. Not valid with other coupon or oft or. Din© in only. An 18% gratuity will be applied basod on tha original amount. Payment must be made with a I credit card. Valid through July 27 t h , 2008. 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