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Show Volume One Thursday, September 11, 1980 Number 25 Landmark: More than a Shopping Mall rife - j sw -li I".--., Hi2b..is &S I 1 KzyKt LANDMARK I 5 fj psijl (VILLAGE & REGIONAL-SHOPPING CENTER ! 1 I T- ir- I jj PREPARED FOR : H j j ' V 1 X KIMBALL JUNCTION ASSOCIATES I j l X XW'g : X PREPARED BY; 1 j ' ..xWi'XJ j -0? X Johnson S Associates j .., UI o M ,00 J0 , ff17! V.W I j 5 '''." """"V X BOI) 649-9811 l '1'- m W i ifizy x X : 1 I We have seen the tuture, and it looks something like the Landmark Village and Regional Shopping Center. Landmark will he located in the southwest corner of Kimball lunction, a location that would accommodate, normally, nothing more than a highway high-way oasis one of those "gas n' gobble" gob-ble" shacks or a Little America at most. But what developer Hy Saunders envisions is almost a mountain mini-metropolis. mini-metropolis. A carefully planned community com-munity residential development, shopping mall, and medical center will occupy 93 acres, stretching three-quarters three-quarters of a mile down 1-80. Services from banking to dentistry to tennis will likely be available. The project's brains see it as part of the gateway to Park City, and not something that will supplant sup-plant the town. They have designed it for residents of Summit County, despite its potential for serving tourists on one of the busiest interstate arteries in Utah. Most importantly, they believe Landmark has led the way for future mountain villages by maintaining main-taining a proper respect for the environment. en-vironment. Said Van Martin of J.J. Johnson, the project's engineers, "We'd rather do this now than be in the position later of doing something quick and dirty and pressed together.'' The first phase of Landmark is its regional shopping mall, 560,000 square feet that will be converted into department depart-ment stores, offices, and shop space, according to Johnson's Bruce Erickson. The mall will be scaled up the hill in "steps". The top step wili be a food and drug store situated next to a parking lot, the only above ground parking ot the 2,800 spaces planned for the mall. The remainder ot the parking will be underground, which will mean that much less mountain greenery paved over with asphalt. Businesses also will locate on four "pads" outside the mall, just as malls in the valley feature restaurants or auto tire centers on similar "pads" in their parking lot perimeter. Phase Two is a hospital, located in a cove just south of the shopping mall. The 10-acre site at first was set aside for condominiums, Erickson said. But planners realized what a perfect area it was for a medical facility visible and accessible to dense traffic. The hospital, he said, would offer emergency, emergen-cy, surgical, and obstetric services for patients in up to 150 beds. And a nearby near-by medical center would have surgical suites, outpatient care areas, dentist and orthodontist s olliies, etc Landmark s developer and managing partner Hy Saunders said he is very close to finalizing a deal with Holy Cross Hospital. "Let's say a tentative agreement has been reached,' he remarked. And doctors from several states have expressed interest in the project, he added. Finally, Landmark's Phase Three is a resilient ial development designed tor the kind of middle-income resident who has had trouble recently linding lodgings in the Park City area. ("The real estate market has gone era A' up here," notes Erickson.) The service road you've often noticed in that area running run-ning parallel to 1-80 will be partially abandoned. And a newer version 66-70-toot wide road will wind its way through the development. But none of the 8-plexes, 12-plexes, and townhouse units planned for Landmark Land-mark will front on the service road. Erickson proudly points out that the homes are clustered exclusively on side roads that are connected to the service road via a few exits. This avoids the "side friction" problem of cars pouring onto a main artery from several exits, clogging up traffic and increasing the danger of accidents. T he development will entail 72 units ol 8-plexes (nine buildings), 108 units of 12-plexes (again nine buildings) and 70 townhouse units, built in twos or threes. The development also includes a drainage pond, but Hy Saunders saiu his team approached it with the idea, "Let's make something aesthetic out ot it!" And so they did, stocking it with ducks, lish and a water-circulation system. Saunders said a water system should be completed by fall, including a 750,000 gallon reservoir. lust north ot the pond is an old gravel hollow, scooped out by road builders to construct 1-80. Now, the chain gang's nightmare will become the racquet-lover's dream. Landmark developers plan to locate a complete tennis facility eight outdoor tennis courts, six covered, and a pro shop within the natural wind protection ot the hollow. Landmark to 4 |