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Show WASATCH resort, to make attractive more upscale home sites. “Its kind of like the chicken and the egg,” Wells explains of resort development in general. A trigger is needed YOUR marketing more aggressively. “It has great terrain.. But who knows about it? They just aren’t marketing The point is, the skiers are going somewhere.” to make the real estate valuable. The ski resort is that trigger but requires lodging (more real estate) to be useful. “You need to have the ability for people to stay at a resort, in order for them to eventually buy there,” Wells said, However, Mike Baker, who has a lot of experience in the rough and tumble world of corporate mergers and takeovers, thinks that all Wolf Mountain has to do is remain open to be successful. “We really don’t need a lot more until the skier days catch up,” Baker said of tourist traffic. “And we don’t have to market nationally. Park City and Deer Valley spend hundreds of thousands of dollars getting the tourists here. We just need to look for our share, once they get here.” Baker adds that Wolf Mountain will be popular among Salt Lakers because, at $25 a day, it is relatively inexpensive, it has the most convenient location, just off I-80, and allows snowboarding for the younger set. Curiously, Wolf Mountain has done very little promotion in Summit County or Salt Lake Valley this ski season, Brighton and Solitude have pulled out the stops in an advertising war for the local skier market. But many Salt Lake skiers and snowboarders may not even be aware that Wolf Mountain is open or offers morning and afternoon half-day passes at just $18 a bargain if there ever was one. One observer, who wished not to be identified, said Wolf Mountain is effectively shooting itself in the foot by not MAIL MOUNTAIN THE GRISWOLD When he was 18, Kenny Griswold tucked his screenplay under his arm and headed to Hollywood. There, he was snubbed and told he was too young and needed an education. So, the destitute but plucky Connecticut Yankee wrangled a wrestling scholarship at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie. “I was so happy, at that time, to be getting an education. It was just the best thing that could have happened.” Although he probably is no longer in the 126-pound class, Griswold is still built like a collegiate wrestler, who seems to be energized with nuclear power. He keeps his reactor humming with a steady stream of French Toast, hot cocoa, cheeseburgers and more hot cocoa. His father was a fortune 500 executive, who kept the family in style with the upper crust in Greenwich, Conn. But by the time Kenny reached 17, his REQUEST TO For the next ten years, Griswold 1984, about the time the movie was bounced around Hollywood, writing released to mixed reviews from critics, screenpiays and getting bit parts in who panned Travolta, Later that year, his movies. At one point, between father died, too movies, he began a manufacTravolta turing company that produced went into hid Kenny Griswold bieycle-like rickshaws. ng and “I want to see a comAlthough his Park City critGriswold ics doubt the veracity of some found himself Made tel delo| of his claims, Griswold insists community ... 1 don’t ie Park City, he has written and produced where he put want to be Wolf films, including, “Champions together his Forever,” a ing heavyweight on documentary Mountain of Park City. mee lm af)1a focus- boxing Mountain, P.O. BOX first Daly Area. Kenny Griswold champs Mohammed Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes and George Foreman. Kenny seemed to be onto the big time about 1983, he recalls, when he teamed with friend John Travolta for a piece of the action in the movie, “Perfect.” But Kenny's mother died in 1433 ¢ PARK CITY, UTAH 84060 OR FAX 801-649-8046 Monthly at 7,000 Park City, Utah 12 ISSUES OF THE “TIMES” ADDRESS APT./ SUITE NO. CITY/STATE ZIP THIS GIFT IS FROM PHONE NO. [ ADDRESS APT/SUITE NO. PHONE NO. (____} CITY/STATE No. deal, then That track record is not exactly a warm-up for a project that holds the challenges of Wolf Mountain, say most Park City real estate moguls But Griswold dismisses the criticism as small-town jealousy. “Open your eyes up to understand what’s in front of you. On this project, we did everything we said we would do,” he retorts with a bit of indignation. “It would be tragic, if this community reduces down to a ‘IfI can’t have it, you can't have it’ mentality.” As Griswold flies across his new empire in a leopard-painted Arctic Cat snowmobile, he divulges his dream. “I want to see a complete recreational community .. . I don’t want to be Wolf Mountain of Park City. I want to be Wolf Mountain, period. @ TO VISAQ~ the Double Condos Since then, he has built several relatively small projects, most notably The Empire House, a unique condominium project with baroque architecture and pointed turrets near the Park City Ski Published im CHECKQ develop- ment known period.” is father had suddenly gone broke and deserted the family. The house was auctioned off before the family could even pack, Griswold remembers with misty eyes. The family tragedy was documented in that first screenplay. Determined that it was important work, Griswold returned to Hollywood to become a filmmaker. “When I owas ~21: 1 went to Hollywood with this screenplay . . . My original plan was that my father would see it and come back home. * SUBSCRIPTION TIMES Exp. SIGNATURE ) Feet |