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Show B-1 C-1 DRIVE-IN MOVIE WILL WEATHER THE STORM WAY WE WERE, A-7 GOT A COOL PHOTO? Share it to #parkcitypics or @parkrecord on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, and we’ll run the week’s best in print COUPLE DRIVES DERBY THROUGH THE CHAOS Park Record. COLUMNS, A-8 SILVER KING FIGURE TALKS OF LIFE IN THE MINES JAY MEEHAN CONDEMNS LIZ CHENEY’S WESTERN WAYS 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 Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 7-9, 2019 Serving Summit County since 1880 Vol. 139 | No. 53 50¢ Art center offers peek at concept for new building Awash in art A Bjarke Ingels design shows one possibility for Kearns Boulevard locale JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Kimball Art Center last weekend displayed a rendering of one concept under consideration for its new building in a planned arts and culture district along Kearns Boulevard, providing an early glimpse of an idea crafted by a famed European architectural firm. The rendering was shown during the Park City Kimball Arts Festival. The event is believed to be the first time the image was made available to the general public. The Bjarke Ingels Group creation features a series of diamond-shaped and triangular-shaped elements that appear to attempt to reflect the mountainous surroundings. The rendering was part of a poster board that described the image as “The future!” The image was one of the first significant CHRISTOPHER SAMUELS/PARK RECORD Marian Bytendorp of Sandy inspects an art piece at the Park City Kimball Arts Festival on Saturday. The annual three-day event drew a crowd of thousands to Main Street, many of whom persevered through Saturday afternoon rain showers. See page B-8 for more photos. Please see Kimball, A-2 JAY HAMBURGER/PARK RECORD The Kimball Art Center during last weekend’s Park City Kimball Arts Festival displayed a rendering of a concept under consideration for its new building in an arts and culture district planned along Kearns Boulevard. The Bjarke Ingels Group creation appears to attempt to reflect the mountainous surroundings. Scammers target Basin Episcopals Mormon Church considers selling building Reverend’s name and number used to try to bilk parishioners JAY HAMBURGER ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Reverend Charles Robinson was enjoying his sabbatical in the Bay Area, studying religious epistemology in the mornings and taking the younger members of his family on adventures in the afternoons. Then, on the last week of a threemonth respite, he heard that someone was trying to defraud his parish. Again. Robinson is the rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in the Snyderville Basin, and someone was using his name and cellphone number to attempt to bilk parishioners out of money. None of the three people who received the messages immediately fell for it, Robinson said, instead alerting him of the suspicious messages. The parish had been hit last year with a similar scam, but that one used email and was more successful, netting hundreds of dollars from several parishioners, Robinson said. He theorized he was targeted because of his position in the community. “They assume I’m connected to a parish community that knows me and respects me and is likely to respond to me; that’s just my guess,” he said. “Maybe they’re singling out people that are associated with large groups of other people — it makes sense, from a Please see Parishioners, A-2 3 sections • 30 pages Classifieds .............................. C-7 Columns ................................. A-8 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial.................................. A-9 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-11 Letters to the Editor ............... A-9 Restaurant Guide.................... B-6 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 The Family Tree Center on Main Street, dating to Games era, could be listed soon The Park Record The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could put a Main Street building where a Family Tree Center once operated on the market shortly, an offering that would be especially noteworthy as the real estate community, investors, church watchers and rank-and-file Parkites await the fate of a well-situated property along the shopping, dining and entertainment strip. The 5,615-square-foot building is located at 531 Main St., close to the midpoint of the street. The Family Tree Center operated on the street level while there are three apartments on the second and third levels. The Family Tree Center, which provided an opportunity for people to research their ancestors, closed in February of 2018. The street level space and the upstairs apartments are vacant. Church leaders are anticipated to consider the possibility of authorizing the real estate listing soon. A sign was posted on the building on Friday — the opening day of the Park City Kimball Arts Festival — announcing the property would be listed shortly. The arts festival, one of the largest events on Park JAY HAMBURGER/PARK RECORD The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints once operated a Family Tree Center in a building at 531 Main St. It closed in February of 2018. The church could put the property on the market shortly. A real estate sign was posted on the building on Friday. City’s calendar, brought large crowds of people to Main Street in view of the sign. Ric Horgan, the real estate project manager for the church, said the property will be listed without an asking price. Horgan said the church wants the listing to be finalized prior to the ski season. A sale would relieve the church from the expenses of maintaining a vacant building, he said. The Family Tree Center opened in the years before the 2002 Winter Olympics, a time when international publicity was building in Park City and the wider Olympic region. Horgan said the church wanted a presence along Main Street during the Games era. The Park City area hosted approximately half of the competitions during the Games, and Main Street was one of the Olympic region’s most popular celebration zones, drawing huge crowds. The Family Tree Center provided the church with a high-profile location in the years since the closing ceremonies. “It’s right in the heart of Main Street. It served its purpose well during the Olympics,” Horgan said, adding, “It was a good property.” Horgan anticipates interest from potential buyers within Utah and from outside the state. He said it will be carefully marketed. The sign posted on the building indicates it is listed with the firm CBRE, a commercial real estate brokerage. Horgan said real estate in Park City is not “tethered to normal market dynamics” as he described the anticipated interest in the building. Please see Listing, A-2 Brown’s Canyon resort may open this year The project seen as an example of regional impact of growth ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Driving from Park City on S.R. 248 as the road turns southward and Brown’s Canyon opens to the east, there is a giant white-wrapped structure rising on a hill with twin cranes standing sentinel over the roadway. It’s a 250-unit condo/hotel/ice arena concept called the Black Rock Mountain Resort that aims to capitalize on what its developers see as the growing four-season attraction of this one-time winter-only destination. It’s also an example of the regional effects of the Park City area’s growth, with the complex intended to serve as an amenity hub for two other developments at the western end of Brown’s Canyon: Black Rock Ridge and the Deer Vista gated community. Altogether, the three developments are entitled to more than 700 units at the mouth of Brown’s Canyon, with the potential to reshape an area that’s growing faster than almost anywhere in the region and add traffic to a corridor that already suffers from significant rush hour congestion. All three are in Wasatch County and are being developed by Mark 25 Homes, whose president Justin Griffin said construction of the Black Rock Mountain Resort is progressing smoothly. He’s optimistic the first phase — a 69-unit building visible from S.R. 248 — will be finished and open by the end of this year. Once entirely built out, the development will feature 196 condominium units, 44 of which have a locked- CHRISTOPHER SAMUELS/PARK RECORD The first phase of the Black Rock Mountain Resort may open by the end of this year, its developers say. The first phase features 69 condos and 30,000 square feet of commercial space, and is envisioned as a future ice hockey events center with as many as three rinks. off portion that will enable owners to use the rooms in different configurations, such as for nightly rentals. The owners will have the option of using the resort’s preferred rental agency VISITOR GUIDE Deer Valley promises a real concert at Snow Park to put the units on the rental market, Griffin explained. The first phase includes 66 Please see Project, A-2 The Deer Valley Summer Concert Series will welcome Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real on Aug. 8, at Snow Park Amphitheater. Tickets are available by visiting eventbrite.com/e/lukas-nelson-promise-of-the-real-tickets-58515397128?aff=ebdssbdestsearch. |