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Show Golf comirse hotel comisftiriiicttooin sett ft begDim Buextt spirnimg by Christopher Smart The machinery is in motion for another major hotel in Park City by the fall of 1984. Ending years of speculation on what has come to be known as the golf course hotel, Nick Badami, chairman of the board of Alpine Meadows Ski Corp., parent company of the Park City Ski Corp., told the Record Friday that the company has negotiated a land lease agreement with a Salt Lake City firm to build a 300-room structure adjoining the Park City Golf Course. Badami said construction would begin in the spring of 1984. Dee Christiansen of Xennex Corp. said that his company signed an agreement with the Ski Corp. on Friday in Park City and was now in negotiations with a major hotel chain. He said he expects to finalize those negotiations in two or three weeks. Christiansen would not name the hotel chain he has been dealing with. However, his company has just completed construction of Sheraton s new hotel in downtown Salt Lake City. In May of this year, Park City Ski Corp's. marketing director, Craig Badami, announced that a would-be developer had signed a letter of intent to build a hotel on the 7.82-acre site that parallels Utah Highway 224 and runs up Thaynes Canyon Drive. The hotel site includes the property now occupied by Adolph's Restaurant, the golf course pro shop, and the adjoining tennis courts. The new hotel, which according to Christiansen has a tentative opening date sometime in the fall of 1984, will include convention facilities, two restaurants and an indoor-outdoor swimming pool. The golf course will have to be modified slightly to accommodate the structure, he said. The hotel plans also call for a new golf course club house within the structure as well as a small amount of retail space. Christiansen said the design for the structure is very similar t"'mm ' ., , ... .. .... .. .. to original plans to build a large hotel on the property as presented to the Park City Planning Commission in 1980. In 1979 the Park City Ski Corp. sold the golf course to the city for $1 million. The Ski Corp., however, retained development rights for the 7.82 adjoining acres in an agreement that specified that a 300-room structure could be built on the site. In October, 1980, the Planning Commission okayed plans for a 150,000 square foot hotel as presented by Robogado Associates. Robogado's plans, however, were never realized for financial reasons. The original hotel plans met with some opposition from Park City residents who argued that the hotel would mar the entrance to Park City and obscure the view of the mountains. The Planning Commission stipulated in its approval of the structure that the City Council must also approve it before any building permits would be issued. , pii.....,,,,,...,.,,,,,,,...,, .-, |