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Show Planning Commission Gives Full Support To Depot Project said the developers were hoping to begin work on the Coalition later in the summer, but didn't plan to finish the ambitious project until next year. Both the Coalition and Union Depot will house restaurants. The Coalition will eventually house a mining museum and several commercial shops and the Depot will include a railroad museum. Coleman said several possible tenants have expressed interest in the Depot restaurant and that a final choice will be announced in mid-July. Later phases of development call for construction of a four story hotel, beginning next year, and 10,000 square feet of commercial space behind the Depot. Prior to the approval by the Commission Wednesday, engineer engi-neer Jack Johnson presented a rendering to the types of train cars that will be used as motel units. The Depot will serve as a check-in point for the cars. Steve Deckert, a member of Johnson's firm, also presented a floor plan of the 60 seat Depot restaurant. The present living quarters on the second floor of the Depot will be used as both a lounge and railroad museum. Two train cars will adjoin the first floor of the building and provide additional seating for the restaurant. Developers of the Park City Depot project were given the green light to begin work on the development in a unanimous vote by the Planning Commission last' Wednesday. Conditional use permits were issued both for restoration of the Union Depot building and for the installation of railroad cars to be used as motel units. According to local Realtor Bill Coleman, part of the five-man development group behind the project, train cars should begin arriving within a month and renovation of the outside of the depot will begin at the same time. The only thing holding up the project now, said Coleman, is negotiation with Park City Ventures Ven-tures for relocation of a slurry line which runs across the property. He said he expected the problem to be resolved within a week. Installation of an internal trolley line will also begin as soon as negotiations with the mine are completed, Coleman said. Most of the first phase of the project, including renovation of the depot, the trolley line and train car motel units, as well as a parking lot, is scheduled to be completed in time for the fall ski season. A conditional use permit is still needed for renovation of the Coalition mine building. Coleman Coleman later told the Record that the developers would be returning to the Planning Commission Com-mission in either July or August to renew their request for a ski lift connecting the Coalition building with the top of Park City Resort's Payday ski run. The lift, originally presented as a connection between the Depot project and controversial Norfolk Ave. subdivision, was later dropped from discussion because of initial adverse reaction. The gear box for the lift has already been reserved and Coleman said there was "some chance" the lift could be installed this year. "We're at the city's mercy, as usual," he said. The Depot project, ski lift and Norfolk subdivision are all being proposed by local Realtors Bill Coleman and Harry Reed, along with Trolley Square developer Wally Wright and Salt Lake businessmen John Prince and Jack Sweeney. Wright, Prince and Sweeney are also responsible for the new Alpine Slide now under construction construc-tion at the resort. |