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Show yFV' H:"Mi m ft' I1 ft 1 dara -QoE ; : ; : H I H' p 3- : WUui felWxT jfell" ptU i-ff L-J i , J " ' ' 1'! ' fH st---h j j, jpjg jj I IBrWflll.il n,,i ii nr,- I" lr' ' ' ' "" ' " - ' ' " ' A view facing south into Silver Mill's Main Mall, showing the four floors, the atrium, and the tunnel entrance. Take a look inside Silver Mill mall are not a part of the Main Mall interior. So you want to lease a space in the new mall. How much is it going to cost? The food court will be an average, according to Doil-ney, Doil-ney, of $18 per square foot. The Main Street area will average $20 per foot, the next floor $16 per foot, and the top floor, with the restaurant and the club, $16 per foot. Doilney said about 20 percent of the space has been pre-leased. The developers de-velopers hope to have 50 percent reserved by February, Feb-ruary, and the rest by the spring. In addition to the rental, Doilney estimated that the tenants will have an average of $10,000 in finish costs. Each tenant has to do his own lighting, storefront, carpeting, and other improvements, im-provements, i Doilney thinks Silver Mill will vastly improve Main Street. "One of the major issues on Main Street is quantity, quality, and consistency con-sistency of the retail stores. It needs to be improved. This project will have both the quantity and quality to generate enough business from both locals and tour ists," he said. And the consistency of the 100 or so shops opening and closing daily at the same time will help, he thinks. "Currently if you arrive in Park City looking to shop, you find many shops closed." - The 200 parking spaces provided by Silver Mill, Doilney said, will keep Main Street from becoming more congested. He claims that the spaces to be added in the Swede Alley garage will match the current number of spaces on both sides of Main Street. When the total number of spaces in Swede Alley reaches 1,000, through the addition of future parking structures, Doilney thinks it would be a good idea to close off Main Street to traffic. "I'm very interested in ultimately seeing that happen." He cited Aspen and Vail, where streets closed to traffic have become be-come vibrant shopping areas. He sees Silver Mill propelling pro-pelling Park City in that direction. "This project is the single most-positive influence in-fluence on retailing in the city." by Randy Hanskat You've got to admit, it has got the attention of the town. The huge crane, the massive excavation, the future tunneling, tun-neling, all the new retail stores Silver Mill. When walking the project's pro-ject's lengthy boardwalk you can't resist taking a peek .through the viewing openings. open-ings. Your mind tries to " picture the end result, when the Main Mall is complete. What will it be like? If you are the type who can't wait until Christmas day to open your presents, then read on, as you probably probab-ly won't be able to wait until next summer when the Main Mall opens, to see what it will be like inside. "It will be incredible for Main Street," said Mike Doilney, one of the three Silver Mill partners. He gave an overview of the total project four buildings, build-ings, 120,000 square feet of leasable retail space, 80,000 square feet of commons area, 200 parking spaces, two tunnels, and an elevated walkway. The 88,000 square foot Main Mall is first on the agenda. It currently is the site of the huge crane on the upper west side of Main Street. The building should be closed in by winter and completed by Pioneer Day (July 24) of next year, Doilney said. Next summer a 200-space parking garage will be built in Swede Alley, directly east of the Main Mall. It will also hold 25,000 square feet of retail space. There will be two retail buildings, one between the Egyptian Theatre and the "Black Pearl, and the other encompassing the rest of the block on the north side of the Black Pearl. Those two structures will not be built, said Doilney, until the summer of 1985 at the earliest. Two tunnels will be constructed con-structed under Main Street in the spring of next year to connect the Main Mall with the two future retail buildings build-ings across the street. They will be needed for deliveries, before they are really needed as pedestrian access to the Mall, Doilney said. Also an elevated walkway will connect the parking garage to the two retail buildings on the east side of Main Street. But back to the center of attention the Main Mall. The bottom floor of the Main Mall will be below ground, as can be deduced from the huge excavation at the site. According to Doilney, Doil-ney, that floor will be primarily devoted to an open "food court," surrounded by various food shops. The court will seat 150 to 250 people, and part of the area can become a stage when not used for food court seating. Planned tenants for the bottom floor are carry-out restaurants, fast food outlets, out-lets, and specialty food stores. Those who like to eat will love this floor. Doilney said the Main Street level will present a different atmosphere: no food, just high-end retail. The centerpiece of this floor will be a 4,000-square-foot junior department store. It will hold fashion clothing and accessories, but no hard goods, said Doilney. At this time, the space has not been filled. If it can't be filled with a single merchant, the space will be divided up into various-sized spaces. Other proposed exclusive shops on this level may include ladies' specialties, mens' specialties, a child-rens' child-rens' shop, and various accessory shops (shoes, leather, sweaters, etc.). On the second floor, above Main Street, Doilney and his partners want to keep the space more affordable than the floor below. Possible tenants include a sporting goods store, a toy store, an optical store, a beauty and cosmetics store, a jewelry store, and a couple of art galleries. Then to top it all off will be a 4,000-square-foot restaurant restau-rant and a 3,000-square-foot club on the fourth floor. Both will have balconies on the front. Built on the back of this level, in the future, will ' ' be v sortie cbflfominiums," facing Park Avenue. Inside the building, running run-ning through the entire four floors, will be an atrium with a glass skylight above. There will also be a glass elevator and four escalators. At the north end of the Main Mall, it is impossible not to notice the three historic storefronts which have been saved from demolition. demo-lition. Originally, Silver Mill developers wanted to build the entire front of the Mall in recreated historic architecture, architec-ture, but the Planning Department De-partment and the Historic Commission opposed the idea. So the result will be a contemporary building of glass and exposed concrete. The building will be stepped back to offset the impact of its height. The three authentic store fronts that have been saved will be three individual stores, much as they were before, Doilney said. They |