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Show A-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 7-9, 2019 The Park Record The Park Record. Serving Summit County since 1880 The Park Record, Park City’s No. 1 source for local news, opinion and advertising, is available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Heber City, Summit County and Salt Lake City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Summit County (home delivery): $56 per year (includes Sunday editions of The Salt Lake Tribune) Outside Summit County (home delivery available in Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Utah counties; all other addresses will be mailed via the U.S. Postal Service): $80 per year To subscribe please call 435–649– 9014 or visit www.parkrecord.com and click the Subscribe link in the Reader Tools section of the toolbar at the bottom of the page. To report a missing paper, please call 801–204–6100. 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There was public resistance to two Bjarke Ingels Group designs for the Old Town location as critics argued a modern design was out of place along the historic streetscape. The Kimball Art Center sold the Old Town property and currently occupies temporary space along Kearns Boulevard as plans for a permanent building in the arts and culture district are devised. Continued from A-1 Parishioners targeted To contact the newsroom, please call 435–649–9014 or email editor@parkrecord.com For display advertising, please call a sales representative at 435–649– 9014 or email val@parkrecord.com To place a classified ad, please call 435–649–9014 or email classads@parkrecord.com For questions about your bill, please call 435–649–9014 or email accounts@parkrecord.com The Park Record online is available at www.parkrecord.com and contains all of the news and feature stories in the latest edition plus breaking news updates. 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Phone: 435–649–9014 deception point of view.” Summit County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Lt. Andrew Wright said the parish’s experience falls into an unfortunate trend in the area. “We’re seeing a huge increase in electronic forms of fraud,” Wright said, “whether that comes over the phone or email, or someone calling and trying to gain access or remote access to your computer.” He said the culprits are often overseas, which means local law enforcement has few options to respond. But he asked those who are victimized by scams to file reports with the Sheriff’s Office, as it helps them identify trends and could lead to an arrest. In the case of St. Luke’s parish, the scammer sent text messages that looked like they were from Robinson’s cell phone. The message claimed to be from the pastor and asked for assistance with a pastoral emergency or to assist a family in need. Though these scams didn’t work, previous ones have ended up with a request to purchase gift cards and to relay that information to the scammers. Wright said he hasn’t seen other religious communities being targeted, but that elderly people often represent a common mark. “Unfortunately, the elderly seem to be preyed on more,” Wright said. “Elderly people are more trusting of people who call and claim to be from a specific organization or entity.” Continued from A-1 Listing expected Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday The Family Tree Center always seemed to many to be out of place along Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e 3092 So. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City (801)484-6364 888.445.RUGS (7847) Mon.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm The Kearns Boulevard location of the arts and culture district offers far more architectural flexibility than the former Kimball Art Center site in Old Town, where City Hall’s strict design guidelines regulate development. The leadership of the Kimball Art Center sees the Kearns Boulevard corridor as offering the space and the architectural flexibility to allow Bjarke Ingels Group to craft an ambitious design. The Kimball Art Center desires a new building with more square footage for exhibits and classes. The Kimball Art Center said the image that was on display last weekend is in the conceptual stage. In prepared answers to a Park Record inquiry about the design that was on display, the Kimball Art Center said there are “a number of concepts and they will continue to be tweaked over the coming weeks,” indicating it is “an evolving list.” The organization said the leadership of the Kimball Art Center had not yet gathered to discuss the concepts. “We’ve been so wrapped up in arts fest, and the initial concepts were just released, so we haven’t gathered as a group to get collective feedback yet,” the Kimball Art Center said. The Kimball Art Center also said the project will meet City Hall development rules at the location. The design “will complement our natural surroundings while exuding the creative flair BIG is known for around the world,” the Kimball Art Center said, referring to Bjarke Ingels Group with the acronym BIG. But Wright noted a recent case at an outlet mall where a younger store manager was victimized by a similar scam. In both that case and the one that hit St. Luke’s, the scammers asked people to purchase gift cards and then relay the card numbers and PINs. Wright said once people do that, the money is gone for good. “That should be a huge red flag,” Wright said. “Never do (that kind of) financial transaction over the phone. Don’t go to a local retail establishment and provide numbers over the phone.” With fraudsters wielding increasingly sophisticated technology that can mimic real numbers and even make caller identification functions display incorrect information, it’s important to confirm the request is legitimate. “If there’s anything that feels funny about it, go directly to the source first before you respond,” Robinson said. “If somebody’s asking for money — call me, make sure it came from me.” He said he hadn’t asked his colleagues whether other parishes have been similarly affected, but plans to do so. “Being targeted through the internet and hacking is a relatively new scam, but people have been trying to scam religious communities since the beginning of time,” he said. The reverend said the scam didn’t make him angry, but it did leave him feeling violated. “I feel like someone snuck into my bedroom in the middle of the night and took pictures, or came into my house uninvited,” he said. He wondered why people who clearly had technical proficiency would make their living deceiving people on the internet rather than getting a job. “If I wanted to rob a bank, you used to have to live close to the bank,” the reverend said. “The internet has connected us globally and there are a lot of blessings with that. This is just the underside.” Main Street, one of the state’s top party destinations. High-end restaurants, nightclubs and boutiques surrounded the Family Tree Center. The Family Tree Center, though, appeared to regularly draw people inside, some being church members wanting to learn about family histories and others being from different religions intrigued with the opportunity to learn about the church. It offered a location for the church to promote its broad genealogy program and missionaries were available at the location. Group refocuses on the business network PandoLabs becomes invitation-only in an effort to boost services JAMES HOYT The Park Record A Park City nonprofit that serves Utah’s burgeoning business sector has gotten a little more exclusive — and, its leaders hope, more focused. David Bieber, a local entrepreneur who is PandoLabs’ managing director, took the reins of the organization in January. He hopes that restructuring the organization, which includes a transition to an invitation-only membership structure and hosting workshops around the state, will allow it to serve as a more focused space for entrepreneurs and investors to make connections. The invitation-only system, Bieber says, will enable PandoLabs’ founding members to invite people to the group who they know will contribute. “It makes sure that people know that people really value them, people really think they would add value to the organization,” Bieber said. “We want our members to not only be people who are going to get value but who will add value.” That’s where the group gets its name and logo. The Pando aspen grove at Fishlake National Forest in central Utah consists of a colony of aspens that put down interconnected roots and effectively grow clones of themselves, forming one of the largest single organisms in the world. “We look at that as what we’re trying to do for Utah’s entrepreneurial community; trying to connect the dots,” Bieber said. The managing director said that, because the organization largely consists of people who have been onboard for years, including founder Jeramy Lund, he views the shift more as a “revitalization” than a “reorganization.” Continued from A-1 Project may open in ’19 two-bedroom, two-bathroom units each covering 1,280 square feet, as well as three penthouse apartments that Griffin said are already under contract. It will also include 30,000 square feet of commercial space, with a deal in place with for what will become Maxwell’s Black Rock, and plans for a small shop to sell things like milk and eggs, Griffin said. The condos will sell for about $400,000 to $600,000, depending on the view, Griffin said. There will also be an NHL-sized indoor hockey rink, with plans to add two more rinks in the future. The green wall currently visible from S.R. 248 essentially marks the back of the rink, which will initially have parking on top, Griffin said. He plans to install an outdoor rink on the space in the winter. Black Rock Ridge owns the Utah Outliers Junior Hockey Club, which may relocate to Park City from Salt Lake City, Griffin said. He said plans are in the works to “It was really about meeting with people who had gone through our program in the past, listening, learning, talking to people in business throughout the state,” Bieber said. “We’ve been very community-driven really based on a lot of feedback that everyone’s kind of looking for; trying to fill the gaps that haven’t been there.” To accomplish that, Bieber said he has relied on PandoLabs’ founding members, who number around 100. The organization lists leaders at prominent Utah firms such as Adobe and Vivint Solar among its founders. Bieber plans for more announcements to come in the fall. “We just opened our general membership and people are signing up very well,” Bieber said. “We really have not started doing any advertising or marketing around it because we want to make sure we have very sound programming and logistics.” Programming in the early stages has included a July workshop at the University of Utah as well as an upcoming October workshop on business environment analysis with Bryan Christiansen, COO of Vivint Solar, at his company’s headquarters in Lehi. PandoLabs also offers a “curated” business matchmaking program and “execution events,” Bieber said. “So people can not only have entrepreneurial success but social success and enjoy life,” he said. “It’s really tough as you’re building your entrepreneurial initiative to move it forward. … But I really think it’s people coming together, connecting offline, and really just meeting great people.” For Bieber himself, he’s found more than business connections as he’s taken the nonprofit through its transition. “Some of my best friends, who I spend the majority of my time with, I’ve met most of them over the past seven months revitalizing PandoLabs.” partner with a hockey-tournament booking company to make the event center a year-round draw for hockey tournaments, working with other local ice arenas. Griffin envisions roughly one tournament a month taking place over three to five days with 50 teams and a couple thousand fans. That would fill the hotel and boost the local economy, Griffin said, but also add traffic to the S.R. 248 corridor. Wasatch County planners, in a 2016 staff report reviewing what was then called the Jovid Mark Hotel and Event Center, wrote the intersection of Brown’s Canyon Road and S.R. 248 would essentially fail with the expected traffic from special events like hockey games. But last August, the Utah Department of Transportation found the intersection did not warrant traffic signals. Since S.R. 248 is a state road, UDOT would likely pay for the majority of the cost of installing a signal. Wasatch County staff and the developer have said UDOT has a plan to install a traffic signal at the intersection in 2021 or 2022, but UDOT Region 2 spokesperson Courtney Samuel said there is no plan to do so. The 2018 UDOT study said traffic would have to increase by 18 percent in one of its measurements to warrant a signal. “Once this intersection meets the criteria, UDOT will install a traffic signal,” Samuel wrote in an email. “We will continue to monitor this location closely as changes occur.” |