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Show Feasibility Grows for Main Street Lift The feasibility of a chair lift connecting the Main Street commercial com-mercial district with the Park City resort's ski facilities seemed more promising this week after Ski Corporation's plans for a new lift serving the National TrainingCenter runs were released. Bill Coleman, who is promoting promot-ing the Main Street project along with Harry Reed, said the resort's new lift will provide an access to the area's major ski facilities at a lower ele vation making the two lift sys- . tern from Main Street unnecessary. unneces-sary. Previous plans called for a lift running from "Swede" alley across main and up Fourth street to a point near designated Norfolk Avenue. From there a second chair lift would carry skiers to the top of Payday where access to the Prospector, Thaynes, and Tripple Chair areas could be made via the Crescent lift. It appears now that only one shorter lift will be needed to make the Main Street connection trimming an estimated $150,000 off the total cost of the project. The cost of providing City officials with a comprehensive feasibility and traffic study, another major obstacle facing the Main Street project, was also for the most part overcome over-come this week. Coleman said that his group has been approached by University of Utah students who are interested in doing the feasibility study as a (Continued on Page Five) '50-50 chance ' of Lift next season (Continued from Page One) Spring Quarter project. "Of course, if the University does the study it will be a tremendous tremen-dous benefit to us but if the City requires an extensive amount of material, the study might not be completed in the time alloted, making the lift unfeasible un-feasible for next season." According to Coleman there is a "fifty-fifty" chance of the facility being completed in time for the '76-'77 ski year. Obtaining financing for the estimated $350,000 project is a hurdle yet to be overcome by the two men. Shortly, Coleman and Reed plan to contact business men and property owners in the immediate vicinity of the proposed pro-posed lift, who will indirectly benefit by the facility, in an attempt to solicit cash donations or pledges. According to Coleman, Cole-man, the amount of financial support generated by property owners will determine the method meth-od of financing. The group is currently exploring industrial revenue bonds and commercial loans as capitol sources and plan to look into the possibility of federal grants. "Whichever road we choose to go as far as financing finan-cing is concerned, donations from property owners will play an important im-portant role in that they show that people are behind the project pro-ject and willing to lend their support," said Coleman. Both Coleman and Reed, who outside of owning property near the path of the proposed lift will have no financial interest in the project, pro-ject, feel that high costs prohibit pro-hibit financing exclusively by donation. do-nation. Although Ray Johnson, President Presi-dent of the Park City Ski Corporation, Corp-oration, has indicated that the resort is interested in operating the lift and admits to the obvious community benefits which could be derived from the lift, he has yet to commit his group to any financial contributions. Apart from the training center lift, the resort plans to construct a second lift into Jupiter Basin. Coleman and Reed are anxious to see the "China Bridge" lift constructed con-structed this year because there is" a possibility that the three lifts could be built together under some kind of a package deal, which would cost less per lift.. |