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Show C-1 B-1 SLAMDANCE SHOWS ITS SPARK IN PARK CITY BUSINESS, A-15 GOT A COOL PHOTO? Share it to #parkcitypics or @parkrecord on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook and we’ll put the week’s best in print SKIER BUMPED UP TO THE WINTER OLYMPICS COLUMNS, A-18 Park Record. FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT SHINES ONLY ON SOME BUSINESSES TERI ORR SAYS REDFORD’S MOM DID NOT GIVE UP ON HIM The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 27-30, 2018 Serving Summit County since 1880 Deer Valley included in a joint pass | for all of the Treasure land The $64 million acquisition by City Hall would require voter approval of biggest-ever bond CAROLYN WEBBER JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Please see New pass, A-2 3 sections • 38 pages Business ............................... A-15 Classifieds .............................. C-7 Columns ............................... A-18 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-19 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ..................................... C-9 Letters to the Editor ............. A-19 Restaurant Guide.................. A-13 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 50¢ In the key of Sundance Deal reached Product accepted in places like Snowbird, Alta and Aspen After the company that purchased Deer Valley Resort announced its new name earlier this month, Alterra Mountain Company came out with another big announcement. It will be offering a multi-resort pass next season. The Ikon Pass, as it is called, will give users access to 23 destinations, including Deer Valley Resort. The pass unites Alterra Mountain Company, Aspen Ski Company, Alta Ski Area, Boyne Resorts, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Snowbird and POWDR, which previously owned Park City Mountain Resort and is headquartered in Park City. Bob Wheaton, president and chief operating officer of Deer Valley Resort, said that he is excited about the pass because it connects Deer Valley with popular resorts around North America. “This is definitely a premier collection of ski resorts and to have one pass that provides access to all of those different places is pretty darn cool,” he said. While specific details about the accessibility to different resorts have not yet been disclosed, Wheaton said that the pass will not drastically alter the resort. A press release said that the pass will feature various options, spanning from full access to all resorts to a limited amount of days and destinations. “This pass was put together with a lot of foresight, a lot of thought and a lot of value to the goals and the personality of each specific ski resort,” he said. Maintaining the values and authenticity of each resort is also what John Cumming, CEO of POWDR Corp., is excited about. But, he also looks forward to being part of a “likeminded community of destinations,” he said in a written statement. “Innovative partnerships like this will introduce new guests to POWDR’s world-class mountains, and enable us to further differentiate the localized guest experience at each of our destinations,” he said. Wheaton said that the Ikon Pass is a competitor to Vail Resorts’ popular Epic Pass, which is available at Park City Mountain Resort, but added that the two are different in their approach and in their range of options, which he said will be made apparent when more details are announced. Vol. 137 | No. 102 The Park Record after the vote. She told Mayor Andy Beerman and the City Council her background prepares her well for the role. It was a rare midterm appointment made necessary by Beerman’s mayoral victory in November and subsequent resignation from the City Council to take office as the mayor. The term expires in early January of 2020. She would need to campaign for a full fouryear term to retain the seat at that point. Ware Peek was selected from a field of 15. The candidates offered broad backgrounds and the field was seen as a formidable group of Parkites. The elected officials said the field was narrowed to three finalists — Ware Peek, Park City Education Foundation Executive Director Abby McNulty and Diane Bernhardt, who is an advocate for students who are blind or visually impaired as well as an activist in development issues in the Rossie Hill neighborhood. City Hall and the Treasure partnership said on Thursday a deal had been reached calling for the municipal government to acquire the long-disputed hillside land for $64 million, an agreement that would be, by a wide margin, the municipal government’s most expensive open space purchase but one that would end decades of uncertainty about the acreage. The announcement that a deal had been reached was another dramatic moment in a development dispute that has had a series of them over the years. Park City officials on Wednesday acknowledged late-hour negotiations were underway about a deal and on Thursday publicized the price. A deal with the Treasure partners — the Sweeney family and a firm called Park City II, LLC — would depend on Park City voters approving a ballot measure in November that is expected to be pegged at approximately $50 million or less. Another $6 million would be shifted from City Hall’s budget for capital projects and be used as a nonrefundable deposit. It was not immediately clear how City Hall would fund what would be the multimillion-dollar remaining gap. The deal was reached as the Park City Planning Commission and the Park City Council were involved in a separate round of talks with the Treasure side about a reimagined, scaled-back project. That iteration of Treasure would have hinged on a $30 million agreement that envisioned City Hall acquiring the Sweeney family’s one-half stake in the project with the intention of retiring 50 percent of the development rights attached to the hillside. The other 50 percent, owned by Park City II, LLC, would have remained intact and been redesigned. The Sweeney family is the traditional landowner of the Treasure acreage and later sold the 50 percent stake to Park City II, LLC. The land is located on a hillside overlooking Old Town along the route of the Town Lift. It is off streets like Lowell Avenue and Empire Avenue. “We got comfortable stepping aside for the right price. This buyout is the right price,” said Pat Sweeney, who represents his family in the development talks about Please see Councilor, A-2 Please see Treasure, A-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Darren Criss performs a piano ballad at the ASCAP Music Café on Main Street on Tuesday. His concert featured a variety of original compositions as well as covers. The Music Café is a popular destination during the Sundance Film Festival, showcasing performers who contributed to the soundtracks of festival entries. Park City staffer selected to fill opening on City Council Lynn Ware Peek, a former reporter, says she is humbled by the midterm appointment JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Lynn Ware Peek, a Marsac Building staffer who once worked as a journalist, was appointed to the Park City Council on Tuesday night, putting her in a powerful position with oversight of people she worked for as a staffer and covered as a reporter. The City Council voted 3-0 in favor of the appointment. City Councilor Tim Henney abstained, citing personal and professional relationships with Ware Peek. She will be sworn into office on Feb. 1. “Thank you. I’m humbled,” Ware Peek said Backcountry skier survives an avalanche Slide, 100 feet wide, triggered along the Park City ridgeline ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record Three skiers triggered an avalanche Wednesday morning on a backcountry slope near Pointy Peak behind the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain Resort on the Park City ridgeline, partially burying one of the men in about two feet of snow. The skiers caused the avalanche at around 11:30 a.m. when one of them entered a northeast-facing slope, fracturing a slab of snow about 5-to-10 feet above him and about 100-feet wide, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. According to a report the three skiers submitted to the Utah Avalanche Center, they took steps to measure the avalanche threat before riding and found conditions similar to ones they’ve seen on the ridge this season, when they’ve skied without incident. They were also equipped with avalanche beacons, probes and shovels. One of the skiers tried to cut across the slope when the slide began, but was caught and carried through the trees, the report states. His avalanche airbag was deployed and he mostly remained on top of the slide. After about 20 minutes, his skies were located about three feet deep. His head and one arm was sticking out of the debris, the Utah Avalanche Center reported. He did not sustain any injuries. In 2016, a skier from Wanship died in an avalanche on a slope adjacent to where the three skiers were riding on Wednesday. Stephen Jones was found under about three feet of snow in an area called Shale Shot after being caught in an avalanche about 60-feet wide and 500-feet long. Craig Gordon, a forecaster with the Please see Skier, A-8 COURTESY OF UTAH AVALANCHE CENTER A skier was partially buried in an avalanche he and two other skiers triggered near Pointy Peak along Park City’s ridgeline Wednesday morning. His airbag was deployed, but he did not sustain any injuries. VISITOR GUIDE The best of the festival screens on Monday in Park City Sundance Film Festival Best of Fest screenings will be Monday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Eccles Theatre, 1750 Kearns Blvd., in Park City. For more information, visit http://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival/get-tickets#. |