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Show A-4 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 8-11, 2020 The Park Record Pedestrian days extended The Main Street program pushed into late October JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Stylish Prospector Home Perfect For In-Town Living Located in a central, quiet part of the popular Prospector neighborhood, this home will impress from the moment you walk in the door. The great room features a floor-to-ceiling fireplace and open kitchen perfect for entertaining, cooking or relaxing at home. There are an additional two bedrooms and bathrooms, including the master, off the great room just right for main floor living. Enjoy the back deck off the bedrooms with a hot tub and views to Park City Mountain Resort. There’s also a spacious family room, two additional bedrooms and another bathroom on the garden level making wonderful additional living space. The oversized two car garage is heated and ready for all your mountain toys. The home is on the Prospector Trails and minutes to town on the Rail Trail or on the bus. A true in-town find. 2265 MONARCH DRIVE | PROSPECTOR | 4 BEDS | 3 BATHS OFFERED AT $975,000 435-901-0616 julie@jhparkcity.com The Park City Council on Tuesday agreed to extend the Main Street pedestrian days on Sundays into late October and add certain Saturdays to the program as businesses on the shopping, dining and entertainment strip continue to attempt to attract customers amid the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Historic Park City Alliance, a group that represents Continued from A-3 Sales mixed The survey also showed there is sector diversity among the businesses that are participating in some fashion in the pedestrian days. The numbers show 43% of those participating are restaurants, followed by 36% that are retailers. Galleries account for 9% while cafes and unspecified sorts of activities each account for 5%, followed by real estate firms at 2%. The Historic Park City Alliance and Park City leaders devised the pedestrian days as the summer was approaching and amid concerns about coronavirus-forced cancellations on the special-event calendar. The special events annually businesses in the Main Street core, sought the extension and the Saturday pedestrian days. The pedestrian days on Sundays were extended until Oct. 25. The program had been scheduled to end on Sept. 6. The elected officials also added two upcoming Saturdays to the program — Sept. 5 and Oct. 3. The Sept. 5 pedestrian day could be especially busy as it is the Saturday of the three-day Labor Day weekend. It will be a similar scenario to the three-day Independence Day weekend, when the City Council extended the program to include a pedestrian day on July 4 itself, which was a Saturday. The extension of the Sunday pedestrian days until Oct. 25 moves the program late into the fall and to within several weeks of the traditional start of the ski season at Park City Mountain Resort. The pedestrian days are meant to draw people to Main Street by offering a pleasant, car-free atmosphere and space for social distancing. They debuted earlier in the summer. The elected officials did not spend extensive time debating the additional pedestrian days at the meeting on Tuesday. Nobody provided public input. “I think this has really set the right tone of being the non-event event in terms of keeping the street busy but spacing people out reasonably safe,” Mayor Andy Beerman said. draw large crowds to Main Street in the summer and fall, providing an important boost to sales. The cancellations included the Park Silly Sunday Market, the Tour of Utah bicycling race and the Park City Kimball Arts Festival. The Miners Day celebrations have also since been canceled. The The pedestrian days have especially been popular on holiday weekends. The crowds on those days have appeared to be the largest since the ski season ended with the early closures of Park City Mountain Resort and Deer Valley Resort as part of the efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus. There have been reports, though, that the sales were mixed even on the busiest of the pedestrian days. Kuhlow offered one theory as a possibility as she explained the close split in the responses regarding the increased sales, noting what is believed to be a trend this summer of visitors staying in Park City for extended periods rather than arriving for short stays or day trips. If visitors are staying longer than is typical, they are likely not dining at restaurants as often as a short-term visitor, she said. They also might not be shopping on Main Street like someone in Park City for a short stay or a day would, she said. “There’s just a change in the tourism pattern,” she said. It is benefiting some. It’s helping them on Sundays,” Alison Kuhlow, Historic Park City Alliance pedestrian days are meant to create an attractive environment that provides space for social distancing. There was concern the Main Street sidewalks could not offer the extra space for social distancing. The businesses would benefit as people spent time strolling the street, the thinking went. A S S O C I AT E B R O K E R ® 2013-2015 2013-2019 KW TOP INDIVIDUAL REALTOR IN UTAH FOR THE LAST 7 YEARS! YOUR PERFECT SKI DAY STARTS HERE Park City’s Newest Ski in Ski Out Private Ski Club Memberships starting at $6,000 Secure Your Season Call Today www.jacksonhideaway.com 435-200-8832 1415 Lowell Ave. Park City, UT 84060 |