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Show Park ("v News Thursday, December 30, 1982 Page All Park City Area Chamber of CommerceConvention and Visitors Bureau 0 E(N0 Following the fortunes of food and finance 9 0 00! by Marty Peterson This is the sixth of a series of articles focused on the Park City Area Chamber-Bureau's Chamber-Bureau's board of directors. Local restauranteur Mark Stedman wears many aprons. ap-rons. The first was the one he donned 3' years ago when he moved to Park City from Sun Valley, Idaho, to start a partnership for "Sneakers," a private club and restaurant restau-rant located in the Park City Racquet Club. Soon after, Mark got his second apron for hors d'oeuvres and meals served at private parties and banquets by "Stedman Catering." Ca-tering." Most recently came his third, as organizer of food and beverages for the "Park City Sleigh Company," which offers a sleigh ride, sing-along and barbecue under un-der the stars of Park City. All three of Mark's food and beverage operations are member businesses of the Park City Area Chamber of Commerce-Convention and Visitors Bureau. And, because be-cause of his level of involvement involve-ment in the local restaurant business, Mark serves an important role in representing represent-ing that industry on the Chamber-Bureau's board of directors. He started out with the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce a year before the merger with the Convention and Visitors Bureau. This year, in addition to his director's position, Mark has served on the Chamber-Bureau's Chamber-Bureau's Transportation Committee. However, his real interest is to develop a restaurant committee in the coming year. Mark said, "It's difficult diffi-cult to get schedules together, to-gether, but there are a group of people who are interested (in forming this committee), who are concerned with the restaurant, bar and club industry as well as the community. These people would be willing to work with us on a committee. We need a committee that is constantly constant-ly available one that would address political issues that effect the industry, a committee com-mittee to share common problems and ideas. Eight Chamber-Bureau board positions are up for election this month. On those vacancies, Mark said, "To date, I've been the only one on the board of directors who's directly involved in the (food and beverage) industry. I can't represent them all. I'm only one vote." Mark was involved with food and beverage for the Sun Valley Company for eight years before he moved to Park City. He's originally from Minneapolis. Robert W. Wells Bob Wells has traveled the "long and winding road" to the Park City we see today. It started 12 years ago when this native-Mississippian moved to Park City from a CPA firm in New Orleans. The connection to Park City was the Edgar Stern family. mlmmmmmm in immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm r ' sy M W it fm''' fyj ' fW h iffp,M f WS Y 9 fm f 'ij't' "'- i ' '"i jjj' '''ili ' ' ' ' ' ' i ' "i'''''' , iffM- l ' ' ' i ' " i22 iJA l 11 l.. A. "'a& ,... 1.t.. . ... , ,,.,. .....,,,v,-,y,v.,...,. ,(,, ,,, -,iflTi 'iihri i i irlWiii ii . one of Bob's former clients in Louisiana. When the Royal Street Company acquired the Park City Resort from the United Park City Mines in 1970, Bob became financial officer for the Greater Park City Company, Com-pany, a position which dealt with finance, real estate, development and marketing. Then, in 1975, Bob became general manager of the Moana Company a property proper-ty management company for the Park City Resort through Alpine Meadows in Tahoe City, California. It was through Moana that Bob began working with the local lodging community to form the Park City Lodging Association, As-sociation, a group which formed the "roots" of the Park City Convention and Visitors Bureau in 1979 to promote tourism on a year-round year-round basis. With the formation forma-tion of the Bureau, Bob served on its board of directors. In 1980, he and partner Jim McManus acquired Moana's business and now manage the Park City Racquet Club Village and Conference Center. Cen-ter. That same year, Bob returned to the employ of the Royal Street Company, but this time in real estate-marketing estate-marketing for the soon-to-be-opened Deer Valley Resort. ? ! 'Slow $ wswa mmmmA:.,. :-a rmmm: Bob Wells In the spring of 1981, Bob left the Royal Street Company to form Quadriga Development with Merle Huseth, and later, Cal Cowher. Quadriga is a company which handles real estate and development from design-government approval through to construction con-struction and sale. Currently, Current-ly, they are working on five Deer Valley projects, one in Park City, two in Alta and one in the planning stages of a new resort development in Nevada. But that's not all Bob has served on the City Council for five years, and the Park City Planning Department for two years prior to that. Through his many associations associa-tions in the community, Bob has brought a wealth of knowledge to the Chamber-Bureau. Chamber-Bureau. He serves on the board of directors, and also on the Finance Committee. He was instrumental in the merger between the Chamber Cham-ber and the Bureau a year ago, and felt it was important impor-tant to eliminate their overlapping over-lapping responsibilities by forming the new organization. organiza-tion. Bob has reapplied for a director's position as his term expires this month. He sees a common direction between his own private enterprises and those of the Chamber-Bureau. "The fact that I'm on the City Council that works well as a liaison position. I am very much pro-business and pro-growth in Park City and I bring that attitude to the City Council and to the Chamber-Bureau. My activity in the lodging business and in the development develop-ment business is in the same direction of the goals of the Chamber-Bureau." And speaking on the future growth of Park City, Bob said, "There's a tendency, because of the proximity to Salt Lake City, for Park City to grow as a residential area. However, there's the area outside the city limits, Sny-derville Sny-derville to the Summit, it would seem in the future, that that would be the primary residential growth area. Within Park City, I would expect that there would be more of an emphasis empha-sis on growth related to tourism. That's one of the present goals of the city, and seems to be right in the line of the objects of the Chamber-Bureau." Bob Wells has seen a lot of changes in Park City. 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