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Show A-8 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 22-25, 2018 Marketplace Nightly Lodging Tally Occupancy Report for week of September 23-29, 2018 Parkite takes a leap into opportunity The Little Gym has gymnastics classes for young children 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% CAROLYN WEBBER ALDER 10% The Park Record Being a parent of a young and rambunctious toddler is not an easy task. Park City mom Lina Singleton knows that as well as anyone, so she wanted to make the job a little less challenging for fellow parents. She recently opened The Little Gym of Park City, where kids ranging from infants to 12-yearolds can leap, swing and tumble while practicing their listening and cooperation skills. The children’s gymnastics gym is part of an international chain with five locations in Utah. Singleton, a mother of two daughters, grew up constantly surrounded by young children. As a youth, her parents started the Soaring Wings International Montessori School out of their home. Later, Singleton worked for the school as the director for 13 years. There, she said she learned to create individualized experiences for each student to set them up for success. While working there, she started to have kids of her own. When her daughter was 3, she enrolled her in a class at The Little Gym in Salt Lake City, where she and her family were living at the time. Her daughter loved the classes, and Singleton loved that her daughter was building confidence through gymnastics. Three years later, her daughter was on the gym’s performance team and did not want to quit, even when the Singleton family moved up to Park City last August. Singleton drove her daughters to the classes so they could continue participating and, on her last class, her oldest daughter asked if they could open a gym in Park City. 100% Sun Mon Tues 2018 - As of 9/15/18 2017 - As of 9/15/17 2017 - Historic Actuals Wed Thurs Fri Sat Week High 2018 ........Wed 54% Week High 2017 ....... Tues 58% Weekly Average 2018 ....... 44% Weekly Average 2017 ....... 46% NOTE: This is not a forecast of bookings. Data presented in this report represents occupancy on the books as of the report date. Source: DestiMetrics & Park City Chamber/Bureau © 2018 T C p p Teens, companies pair to give leg up P C CAROLYN WEBBER ALDER/THE PARK RECORD Lina Singleton is opening The Little Gym of Park City to offer a place for parents to go with their infants. The open house is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 23, with classes set to start on Sept. 25. It was then that Singleton realized the business was a franchise, and that opening a Park City location was a possibility. She sent a text to her husband saying, “What if we started The Little Gym in Park City?” He was immediately on board. Singleton reached out to The Little Gym’s headquarters last fall and met with some of the company’s leaders to talk about opening a gym. They agreed and sent her to some trainings in the spring while Singleton was looking for a space to house the gym. In April, a friend who owns property on Iron Horse Drive recommended that she take over the space the Christian Center of Park City was using for its boutique while undergoing a renovation. Two months later, Singleton got the keys to the building. “Things fell into place quickly,” she said. She spent the summer remodeling the space to fit the gym and an accompanying room for events, such as birthdays. The business plans to have its open house on Sunday, Sept. 23 and start teaching classes on Tuesday, Sept. 25. Singleton said she chose to open The Little Gym because she wanted to offer parents a place in Park City for infants and young children to play. She knew there was a need in the community, which is why she started the infant program at Soaring Wings Montessori a few years ago. The new Little Gym offers classes for parents and their children that is open to kids as young as 10 months old, and hopes to expand the age range to as young as 3-montholds next year. “This is what Park city is missing. This is what Park City needs,” she said. Plus, she found The Little Gym’s values closely lined up with her own, focusing on health and wellness in kids while promoting exploration and self-driven learning. The Little Gym offers classes, camps and “parent survival nights,” where parents can drop their kids off for a couple hours so they can get some time to themselves or with their significant other, Singleton said. Teachers work with the kids to teach them basic gymnastics. Singleton said the process to open the business has been hard but rewarding so far, just like raising kids. “I put everything into it so you just hope things will work out,” she said. The Little Gym of Park City 1205 Iron Horse Drive tlgparkcityut.com 435.214.7029 Entrepreneurs learn to manage teams in program CAROLYN WEBBER ALDER The Park Record When starting a business, there are always a thousand assignments to cross off the list. Having a limited staff, as most startups do, makes the tasks even more difficult to complete. The Park City Center for Advanced Professional Studies(PCCAPS) helps fill the workforce gaps at businesses while providing real-life learning opportunities for students from Park City High School. Each semester, dozens of students work on various projects with small and large h s businesses around town. Ted McAleer, business coordinator for PCCAPS, said the program has facilitated more than 100 projects since its inception. PCCAPS can be particularly beneficial for entrepreneurs, he said, not only for the extraP hand but for the opportunitys for them to learn how to man-a age and scale a team. 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