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Show Park City Village Project to Begin This May over the 13 acres it covers. Entry to the -various levels occurs from the street with interconnected internal ramps. Davis described the parking park-ing facility as "a marvel of design and engineering that should attract urban designers design-ers from across the country." coun-try." The facility has been designed to accommodate peak parking demands as outlined in the traffic and transportation analysis the City of Park City commissioned commis-sioned from Wayne T. VanWagoner and Associates of Salt Lake City. Traffic will be directed and controlled into and through the various parking levels by parking attendants in sufficient suffici-ent number to assure smooth and efficient traffic flow and internal circulation. Pedestrians Pedest-rians will move to and from the parkins via IpvpI entrv to each plaza from the adjoining adjoin-ing parking level. Each level is designed with a generous 10 foot floor-to-floor height, the architect said. Construction will be poured-in-place concrete con-crete with post-tensioned slabs. Floors will be sloped for drainage and complete fire-protection and sprinkler-system sprinkler-system equipment installed. All levels will be provided with natural ventilation as well as timed mechanical ventilation. "Beyond the unique environmental envi-ronmental assets of Park City, accessibility has been a major factor in its rise as a leading skiing resort," Davis noted. "With the addition of this spacious, highly convenient conven-ient underground garage this factor will be further enhanced en-hanced and another step taken in Park City's singular appeal." Construction of a 2,400-space 2,400-space underground parking garage, the first increment of a recently approved Park Citv Village master plan, will being in late May, Jack W. Davis, president of Park City Village, Inc., anounced. Davis,' the project's developer, devel-oper, said the garage will be one of the largest underground under-ground parking facilities in the Western U.S. and the largest at any ski resort in the nation. The garage will be built in multiple phases, the first comprising 350 parking spaces, and will be at the base of the Park City Resort and ski slopes. "This facility will be the only one of its kind and will provide worry-free auto stor-,i stor-,i 'C for skiers, residents and car-round visitors to the magnificent Park City area," vid Davis, a veteran resort ; Mcl community builder in h".h Utah and California, '".'ark City is rapidly becom-,.g becom-,.g one of the premier v ar-round resort attractions . the U.S. and this ucture, together with the Itiple amenities of Park '.' v Village, will enhance ' i growth intelligently. It i provide substantial job ,1 income potential for the ice greater Park ( iiy area le remaining scn-.ivito te environmental ,.ud his-:al his-:al riches of the .irea. " ark City Villag'. is an 'itital SI 25 million condo-,ium, condo-,ium, commercial ana recreational development adjoining ad-joining the Park City Resort at the base of the mountains, now being acclaimed as one of the world's finest all-around all-around skiing areas, with lifts and other facilities to match. Approximately 750 condominium condo-minium units are planned for construction over the next six-to-eight years, plus 45,000 square feet of commercial com-mercial space, a transportation transporta-tion center, an ice-skating rink, and an outdoor amphitheater. amphi-theater. The project is planned with four primary pedestrian "villages", each with its own identifiable point of entry from the ski mountain and from Park City's Lowell Avenue, according to architect archi-tect Howard Anderson. Each village is designed to facilitate facili-tate a mixed use of commercial commer-cial space, residential units and related amenities, such as skating rinl, pools, plaza, etc. Villages One and Three arc planned as commercial plaas wiih residential units above. Villages Two and Four will be primarily residential with condominium condomini-um hotels and related facilities included. Anderson said the village clusters arc dcisgncd to accommodate the pedestrian as a lodger, skier or local shopper with flow -through circulation from one end of the development to the-other. the-other. Building shanes are varied and broken up to provide visual corridors permitting per-mitting continual views of the mountains. Davis describes the architectural archi-tectural motif as "reflecting Park City's historical heritage". heri-tage". Over-all master plan for the development was approved ap-proved in late February by the Park City Planning Commission. Work is already well under way on the initial above-ground above-ground increment of the Village, which was approved for construction by the City while the over-all master plan was still under consideration. consid-eration. This element includes in-cludes 18 condominiums and 5,000 square feet of commercial commer-cial space, as well as new facilities for the Park City ski school and Resort administrative adminis-trative center. Under construction con-struction since last October, this initial increment of Park City Village is expected to be completed this September. Financing for the first phase of Park City Village has been provided by Prudential Pru-dential Federal Savings and Loan Association of Salt Lake City. Anderson said the big challenge presented by the mammoth s u b t e r r a n e a n parking structure is conforming conform-ing with the sloping site dow n Lowell Avenue and the ski mountain. This will be achieved by situating parking park-ing levels .in terraces corresponding corres-ponding to the land contours |