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Show Greater Park City President Defends Condominium Building 7i I f ? " . , :- . .',. " "1 ! v, ir. "V L WV.. v - (5 ASw -- '" " ' , ... V t '4 -' J GPCC President Warren King defended the Park Avenue Ave-nue Condominiums and discussed dis-cussed Resort plans for development of Park City in a recent interview with the Record. Responding to numerous protests against the Park Avenue Condominiums in the NDTS poll, King said that residents now view this development de-velopment "when it is under construction like anything else which is unfinished it does not show off to its best advantage." King said that though he strongly supports preserving preserv-ing the historical part of town, "I don't believe we should have the entire town, including the new, look like the turn of the century." He added the Park Avenue development is made of brick and concrete partly as afire protection measure. "Wall to wall wooden buildings would just antagonize the fire problem prob-lem you already have in town," King said. King, who was born and raised in Southern California, Californ-ia, came toParkCity inl970. He now makes his home in town and is building a house in Thaynes Canyon. The Resort president is married and has two children and three grandchildren. His son lives in town and is married mar-ried to a local woman. Before becoming GPCC President, King was an executive ex-ecutive with Royal Street Development Corporation, a California-based subsidiary of the Royal Street Corporation, Corpora-tion, a New Orleans firm dealing in real estate and broadcasting. King said the Resort's development de-velopment plans have been held up for some time, first because of the town's nuild-ing nuild-ing moratorium, and more recently because of the high interest rates. He said plans were most definite for the Holiday Ranch Development, which will include a golf course, tennis court, Park City Institute In-stitute for the Arts and Sciences, the new school, ranchette lots, and Resort-built Resort-built buildings. The Holiday Ranch de velopment should be complete com-plete in about five years, King said. Plans for the Deer Valley and Lake Flat developments de-velopments have not passed the initial stage of density and land-use studies, he said. While recognizing that the Resort's arrival precipitated precipitat-ed changes in town, King claimed these have been more positive than not. "I feel the existence of our company and others which are developing will enhance the economic base of the community and will give people a better standard of living," King said. He admitted that the fixed-income fixed-income retired person faces problems, living in Park City. But he said the problem of the elderly was one for the nation as a whole as well as for Park City. "Unfortunately, "Unfortun-ately, our society has been unable to provide for the elderly," eld-erly," he said. Warren King thinks Park City's problems will not be permanent. "The biggest problem Park City faces is growing pains," he said. 1. i! '. J. WARREN KING |