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Guest opinion: The issue is not whether Park City should build the arts and culture district. The only question now is how.

Maggie AbuHaidar, a former board chair for the Kimbal Art Center, disputes the notion that City Hall is moving forward with a “non-plan” as it considers the arts and culture district.
Published: April 8, 2021

PCMR development, arts and culture district talks await new Park City planning director

Gretchen Milliken, the new planning director at the Marsac Building, steps into the influential post amid the discussions about one major development proposal and with the likelihood another one is approaching.
Published: February 27, 2021

Park City leaders broach concept of tax increase for arts and culture district

Park City this week broached the concept of asking voters to approve a ballot measure to raise funds to develop an arts and culture district through a property-tax increase. The topic was not heavily debated nor was a straw poll taken of the City Council.
Published: December 19, 2020

Park City submits application to develop arts and culture district with Sundance, Kimball Art Center

Park City submitted an application to develop an arts and culture district, triggering what is expected to be a closely watched process as leaders pursue a project that reimagines a key location in the community.
Published: October 20, 2020

Park City readies canvas for arts and culture district

Park City officials on Thursday are scheduled to continue to discuss the idea to create an arts and culture district, offering an opportunity to listen to City Hall staffers as well as a consultant retained...
Published: October 31, 2017

Tax for arts-and-culture district causes discomfort for Park City lodging industry

Roughly two months after Park City announced plans to raise a tax on overnight visitors to buy land in Bonanza Park for a high-profile arts-and-culture district, the town’s lodging industry is readying for the ramifications...
Published: September 8, 2017

Letters, Aug. 28-31: Proactive mask requirement needed in Park City schools

“Now is the time to listen to the medical experts and do what they are recommending for our children,” writes Julia Wylie.
Published: August 28, 2021

Guest opinion: It’s time for change at City Hall

Ron Morrill writes that “current leadership has no real plans for solutions” to “any area of importance to the average Parkite.”
Published: August 6, 2021

Guest opinion: City Hall needs a better plan for soils, arts and culture district

“The city needs to take a step back, reevaluate the arts and culture district as a whole and create a better plan for our soils and this project,” writes Madeline Knauer.
Published: August 3, 2021

Guest opinion: Park City leaders, residents must come together to beat back an old enemy

Beverly Hurwitz writes that Parkites should be concerned about lead poisoning given Park City’s mining heritage. We “must come together to make sure that a beatable, old enemy doesn't hurt Park City's next generation.”
Published: August 2, 2021

Guest editorial: Sundance Film Fest is drifting away from Park City

Park City resident Tom Horton writes that we shouldn’t count on the Sundance Film Festival building its headquarters in the city’s planned arts and culture district.
Published: July 26, 2021

Guest editorial: Andy Beerman is a passionate champion of Park City’s quality of life

Peter and Kathleen Metcalf, longtime Parkites, write that Mayor Beerman has major, lasting accomplishments and deserves to keep his office.
Published: July 24, 2021

Letters, July 21-23: At odds with what Park City has become

Readers weigh in on the mayor and council races, and one Parkite wonders what happened to the city she loves.
Published: July 21, 2021

Guest editorial: It’s time to rethink the Arts and Culture District

In a guest opinion piece, Dianne Walker argues it is time for Park City to chart a new course for the Arts & Culture District. Her idea? A transit center.
Published: July 21, 2021

Letters, July 17-20: Who should be Park City’s next mayor?

Parkites continue to weigh in on their preferred choice for council and mayor, with former mayor Dana Williams sharing his choice for the office he held for more than a decade.
Published: July 17, 2021

Park City readies for a potentially highly charged contaminated soils hearing

Park City leaders are scheduled to hold what is expected to be a highly charged hearing about a concept to develop a facility along the S.R. 248 entryway to store soils containing contaminants from the silver-mining era.
Published: July 13, 2021

City Council votes 4 to 1 to open parcel of land earmarked for the Arts and Culture District to public art and live music

City Council approves proposal to use land that will eventually become Park City’s Arts and Culture District.
Published: July 7, 2021

Park City police told of a person ‘hiding from’ moose on cliff

The Park City Police Department in June received a report involving a moose sighting, apparently in the hills surrounding Old Town. The case was logged on June 22. The police were told someone was “hiding from” a moose, according to the department.
Published: June 29, 2021

Park City mayor says widespread confusion remains about contaminated soils facility

Mayor Andy Beerman indicated important decisions regarding City Hall’s concept to build a facility to store contaminated soils could be delayed as leaders continue to consider the idea and gather input.
Published: June 26, 2021

Park City contaminated soils efforts lead to verbal sparring with Summit County official

A member of the Summit County Council engaged Park City officials as tensions continued regarding a City Hall concept to build a facility to store materials containing silver mining-era contaminants along the S.R. 248 entryway. Roger Armstrong has emerged as one of the high-profile critics of the efforts to build a facility known as a repository.
Published: June 23, 2021

Park City contaminated soils facility: Who would be held responsible if it fails?

A City Hall-retained law firm has outlined potential municipal liabilities should officials develop a controversial facility to store soils containing contaminants dating to Park City’s silver-mining era, a list that includes the prospects of a failure of the facility. The liabilities were included in a three-page document classified as a regulatory and legal fact sheet.
Published: June 22, 2021

Park City readies gathering about contaminated soils amid continued worries about health, environment

Park City next week has scheduled an informational event centered on the municipal government’s controversial efforts to develop a facility to store soils contaminated during Park City’s silver-mining era.
Published: June 19, 2021

Park City cancels bidding for construction of contaminated soils facility

City Hall has canceled a bid process that was meant to secure the services of a firm to build the first cell of a controversial facility where soils contaminated during Park City’s silver-mining era would be stored.
Published: June 10, 2021

Park City mayor, in tense moment, cuts off activist as Black Lives Matter mural returns to forefront

The mayor of Park City, in a tense moment, recently cut off an activist amid comments about a series of controversial murals with social justice themes that were put on Main Street in 2020.
Published: June 1, 2021

Letters, May 26-28: Park City School District must invest in the arts

The arts matter, writes Christin Abbott, and “a school district that has a stated vision of ‘focus and emphasis on the whole child’ cannot afford cuts to music education.“
Published: May 26, 2021

Record editorial: Park City community needs qualified, passionate candidates to step up

Our view: The stakes this November are high, not only because of the influential positions that will be filled but because of the decisions the people who fill them will make.
Published: May 26, 2021

Park City native bids for City Council seat, saying ‘We can’t just be 84060’

A Park City native with a family history in the community stretching back decades has started a campaign for the Park City Council, saying she wants to help guide the city in the era after the novel coronavirus pandemic. Tana Toly is 40 and lives in Old Town.
Published: May 25, 2021

Park City councilor launches mayoral campaign, aiming to unseat incumbent

Park City Councilor Nann Worel on Tuesday announced she will mount a campaign for the mayor’s office, challenging incumbent Mayor Andy Beerman for the Marsac Building’s top elected position.
Published: May 18, 2021

Letters, May 15-18: Say no to paid parking at PCMR

The Park City Planning Commission should vote down the PCMR base area development application unless free parking at the resort is guaranteed for local taxpayers, writes Stuart Goldner of Park Meadows.
Published: May 15, 2021

Guest opinion: More accountability needed from City Hall

Larry Aleva writes in a guest editorial that City Hall must be more accountable and transparent.
Published: May 14, 2021

Park City readies public-relations campaign for controversial contaminated soils facility

Park City wants to execute a public-relations effort to outline the concept to build a facility along the S.R. 248 entryway to store soils containing contaminants from Park City’s silver-mining era, outlining a 60-day effort designed to explain the idea as many Parkites appear to be concerned about the prospects of a project.
Published: May 12, 2021

Letters, May 12-14: City Hall will dig into issues regarding soils landfill

Dick Roth writes that he trusts City Hall to examine the important issues as it considers building a facility to store contaminated soils.
Published: May 12, 2021

Park City appoints new planning commissioner who wants to ‘reduce unnecessary developments’

The Park City Council recently confirmed the appointment of a telecommunications industry figure to the Park City Planning Commission and the reappointment of an attorney to the influential panel.
Published: May 11, 2021

Park City seeks bids to build controversial storage facility for contaminated soils

City Hall is seeking bids from firms interested in winning a contract to build the first cell of a controversial facility officials have proposed along the S.R. 248 entryway where the government wants to store soils contaminated from the silver-mining era.
Published: May 7, 2021

Park City musicians group restarts in-person songwriting circles after putting them on hold due to COVID-19

Musician’s Exchange of Park City ready to restart its in-person songwriting circles.
Published: May 6, 2021

Park City man launches City Council campaign wanting to tap benefits of rapid change

Daniel Lewis, an Old Town resident who unsuccessfully sought a spot on the Park City Council in 2019, said this week he will mount another campaign this year.
Published: May 5, 2021

Park City outlines concept to store contaminated soils along entryway

Park City is continuing to take steps to build a facility along the S.R. 248 entryway to store soils containing contaminants from the community’s silver-mining era, an effort that has drawn attention in recent days.
Published: May 4, 2021

Summit County councilor worried about Park City’s plans for contaminated soils

A member of the Summit County Council has raised questions about a concept under consideration at City Hall to build a facility along the S.R. 248 entryway to store soils containing silver mining-era contaminants, a rare appearance by a County Courthouse official in a Marsac Building issue.
Published: May 4, 2021

Park City mayor launches reelection bid

Park City Mayor Andy Beerman on Friday said he would seek reelection later this year. It had seemed likely for some time that he would campaign for a second term.
Published: April 30, 2021

Letters, April 21-24: Park City must better manage growth

“Where will we get the water, sewage treatment, police, fire, city services, broadband capacity and green power? How will we stop the gridlock that will result from all this expansion?” asks Victor Janulaitis.
Published: April 21, 2021

Guest opinion: Sundance still believes in arts and culture district

Sundance Institute Managing Director Betsy Wallace says, “We believe the district will enrich the community as a whole and also serve as a valuable economic driver for years to come.”
Published: April 15, 2021

Guest opinion: City Hall should listen to critics of arts district, not dismiss them

Angela Moschetta writes that critics of the arts and culture district have valid questions and are bringing alternative ideas to the discussion. “To dismiss informed civic engagement as negative is cheap, childish and unbecoming of Park City leadership in any role.”
Published: April 13, 2021

Guest opinion: Park City should sell land and let a developer build arts district

Diane Thompson writes that City Hall should not be involved in financing or building an arts and culture district. Instead, it should sell the land to a developer to pursue the project.
Published: April 12, 2021

Record editorial: Parkites are bracing for the impacts of development on the horizon

Our view: A stunning amount of development in the Park City area is on the horizon at a time when infrastructure is already strained. Parkites are bracing for the impacts.
Published: April 10, 2021

Letters, April 3-6: Build the arts and culture district. But don’t call it that.

Lola and Zafod Beatlebrox write that the arts and culture district is a great idea that will end up paying for itself. But City Hall should consider a rebranding.
Published: April 3, 2021

Park City leaders receive impassioned, but deeply divided, testimony about arts district plans

Park City leaders on Wednesday night received more than an hour of divergent testimony about City Hall’s plans to develop an arts and culture district, hearing from a broad range of speakers — a veritable artist’s palette — as important decisions near regarding the especially ambitious municipal project.
Published: April 2, 2021

PHOTO GALLERY: Demolition begins for planned arts and culture district

A crew with heavy machinery continued to demolish buildings on City Hall land located off the corner of the Bonanza Drive-Kearns Boulevard intersection, where leaders want to develop an arts and culture district. Important meetings about the district are scheduled this week.
Published: March 31, 2021

Park City readies for key meetings about arts district as decisions near on ambitious project

Heavy machinery early in the week was clearing the canvas for a planned City Hall-developed arts and culture district, in the hours and days before important gatherings were planned that are expected to frame the upcoming discussions about the especially ambitious municipal project.
Published: March 30, 2021

Guest opinion: Kimball Art Center is committed to arts and culture district

The executive director of the Kimball Art Center writes that the nonprofit “has the financial resources to acquire our portion of the parcel and stands committed to moving forward with the project.”
Published: March 29, 2021

Former Park City mayor: ‘it will be a crying shame’ if arts district is scrapped

A roundtable centered on City Hall’s plans to develop an arts and culture district is scheduled next week. A former Park City mayor who was involved in the early stages of the project said the community “in the long run will be happy” if the project is developed.
Published: March 27, 2021

Record editorial: Is the arts district a masterpiece, or a rough draft that should be scrapped?

Our view: As the Park City Council continues discussions about the arts and culture district, the elected officials should ask themselves a crucial question: Is there still broad support right now for a project like this, and on such a significant scale?
Published: March 27, 2021

Sundance remains involved in Park City arts district as CEO readies to depart

The Sundance Institute remains involved in the talks about a planned arts and culture district in Park City even as the CEO of the organization prepares to depart.
Published: March 26, 2021

Guest opinion: City Hall has one chance to get arts and culture district right

Ed Parigian supports the idea of an arts and culture district. But, he writes, it should serve City Hall’s critical priorities like affordable housing and social equity.
Published: March 26, 2021

Snapshot: Demolition crews begin clearing way for arts and culture district

An excavator on Thursday moves debris into a pile to be transported off-site as crews demolish a building that once housed a health clinic near the intersection of Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive. Large-scale demolition…
Published: March 26, 2021

Park City business group formally outlines opposition to arts district funding strategy

A Park City business group on Thursday formally outlined its opposition to a strategy under consideration at City Hall to fund the development of an arts and culture district. The Historic Park City Alliance, which represents businesses in the Main Street core, raised a series of issues in the two-page letter.
Published: March 19, 2021

Record editorial: The pandemic will end, but virtual public meetings shouldn’t

Our view: While we’re eager to say goodbye to so many trends ushered in by the pandemic, local governments offering virtual meetings is one that should stay once we’ve thrown away our masks and deleted TikTok from our iPhones.
Published: March 17, 2021

Kimball Art Center unveils its new 9,000-square-foot home in Park City

The Kimball Art Center relocates and will begin offering tours of the new venue on March 17.
Published: March 14, 2021

Letters, March 6-9: Many people want to live here. That doesn’t mean Park City has an affordable housing shortage.

“An excess of people who wish to live here does not mean we have a shortage of housing,” writes Phil Palmintere. “All it means is there is an excess of people who wish to live here, period.”
Published: March 6, 2021

Park City mayor: Do not destroy livability for the sake of ‘making it more affordable’

Park City Mayor Andy Beerman on Tuesday suggested the community does not want to destroy livability in order to address affordability. The mayor made the comment toward the end of a City Hall-hosted online event and as he was addressing housing discussions at the Legislature.
Published: March 4, 2021

Park City sees possibility of tapping Olympic-related monies for major transportation upgrades

Park City leaders in the last week spoke of the prospects that a second Winter Olympics could create funding opportunities as City Hall continues to consider what are anticipated to be high-dollar infrastructure projects.
Published: February 26, 2021

Guest opinion: Parkites say they want boldness. The arts and culture district is a chance to walk the talk.

Given the current environment, Park City needs to reexamine its planned arts and culture district and reject some of its prior assumptions about the project, writes Tom Horton.
Published: February 26, 2021

Anaya’s Market is eyeing a new location in the Basin after shutting its doors in Park City

Anaya’s Market is eyeing a new location in the Basin after shutting its Park City location this fall to make way for the city’s proposed arts and culture district. The new store near Silver Creek Junction would be larger and include an expanded restaurant.
Published: February 24, 2021

Letters, Feb. 17-19: Park City should hold off on demolitions for arts district

“With the fate of the entire arts and culture district up in the air due to soaring costs and other issues, why is Park City going to spend another dime on this property?” asks Rich Ford in a letter to the editor.
Published: February 17, 2021

Park City readies to demolish buildings to prepare land for arts district

Park City within weeks could begin to demolish some of the buildings on the land where an arts and culture district is planned. In any scenario regarding the future development of the land, though, the existing buildings would be razed.
Published: February 12, 2021

Parkites ‘absolutely dumbfounded’ by price of arts district, city councilor says

A member of the Park City Council on Thursday indicated he has received criticism about the price tag of an arts and culture district City Hall is pursuing. City Councilor Steve Joyce outlined that people are stunned with the cost of what would be an especially ambitious municipal project.
Published: February 6, 2021

Park City’s incoming planning chief married to art center leader, complicating talks about cultural district

The incoming Park City planning director is married to the executive director of the Kimball Art Center, one of the organizations involved in City Hall’s efforts to develop an arts and culture district. There will be discussions regarding whether Gretchen Milliken, who starts at the Marsac Building shortly, will recuse herself from talks about the district.
Published: January 13, 2021

Letters, Jan. 13-15: Build the arts and culture district, but it should finance itself

Tom Horton from prospector writes that Park City has a prime opportunity to practice a tenet that emerged in the recent visioning process: sustainable tourism.
Published: January 13, 2021

Park City councilor, expressing optimism for recovery, sees economic effects of coronavirus as a ‘blip’

A member of the Park City Council on Tuesday indicated he is not worried about the long-term economic impacts on the community of the spread of the novel coronavirus. Steve Joyce appeared to express confidence in a rapid business bounce back.
Published: January 9, 2021

Analysis: As a Louisville official is tapped as top planner, could “Keep Park City Weird” become a battle cry?

“Keep Louisville Weird,” people and businesses say in a community better known for thoroughbreds, college basketball, baseball bats and bourbon whiskey. Park City has hired a new top planner from the Kentucky city.
Published: January 7, 2021

Park City planning panel expected to turn over at crucial juncture with PCMR undecided, arts district looming

There are spots available on the Park City Planning Commission, making it nearly certain there will be turnover on the influential panel amid the continuing talks about a major development proposal at Park City Mountain Resort.
Published: January 6, 2021

Park City mayor ‘strongly leaning toward’ reelection bid

First-term Park City Mayor Andy Beerman said he is “strongly leaning toward” seeking reelection later in 2021, but he did not commit this week to a campaign. He said an announcement of his intentions is unlikely prior to the spring.
Published: January 2, 2021

Park City Councilor intends to seek reelection, stressing City Hall priorities but not coronavirus impact

Park City Councilman Tim Henney said he intends to seek a third term in office during the municipal election later in 2021. He said he enjoys the process of governance and the service to the community as a member of the City Council.
Published: January 2, 2021

Letters, Dec. 30-Jan. 1: Pandemic may unravel progress for women in the workplace

The pandemic is another unwelcome obstacle for women in the workplace, writes Ember Conley in a letter to the editor.
Published: December 30, 2020

Park City funding for arts district questioned amid coronavirus pandemic

A former member of the Park City Council recently raised questions about the funding for the planned development of an arts and culture district. Alex Butwinski said it might not be the right time amid economic uncertainty.
Published: December 23, 2020

Park City readies demolitions to prepare land for arts district

Park City officials are preparing to demolish a series of buildings on City Hall-owned land where leaders intend to develop an arts and culture district.
Published: December 3, 2020

Concept for Park City aerial transit system shows lines would fly close to private property

A Park City-hired consultant has issued a report tallying the number of properties close to each segment of a conceptual gondola designed to serve a public-transit purpose.
Published: November 9, 2020

Park City sees possibility of tying gondola network to Winter Olympic monies

Park City leaders are interested in continuing talks about the prospects of building an aerial transit network and see there being the possibility for assistance with the funding should Salt Lake City be awarded a Winter Olympics.
Published: November 1, 2020

Park City pegs gondola system across community at $60 million-plus

An aerial transit system linking key destinations within Park City would cost more than $60 million to build and more than $3 million annually to operate and maintain, a study has found.
Published: October 28, 2020

Park City intends to move giant Olympic-era torch sculpture

The sculpture first resided along Main Street and was moved to the intersection of Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive years later.
Published: September 21, 2020

Park City aerial network, a traffic-fighting concept, appears unlikely for now

In Park City, aerial solutions like gondolas are likely to remain a pie-in-the-sky dream — at least for now.
Published: August 17, 2020

Park City mayor asserts arts district will not compete with Main Street

Park City Mayor Andy Beerman argued the arts and culture district would work well alongside Main Street and could eventually relieve some of the stress of special events.
Published: July 23, 2020

Sundance omitted from Park City arts district materials, but says it remains involved

A website as Park City readies to advance on the efforts to develop an arts and culture district lists the municipal government and the Kimball Art Center as the key entities involved, omitting the Sundance Institute even though it has been seen since the outset as one of the co-anchors.
Published: July 21, 2020

Park City within weeks plans to file paperwork to develop arts district

Park City within weeks intends to file an application involving the development of an arts and culture district along Bonanza Drive and Kearns Boulevard.
Published: July 13, 2020

Park City readies talk about arts district amid Sundance, Kimball Art Center layoffs

Park City officials on Thursday are scheduled to discuss plans to develop an arts and culture district along Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive, a project involving City Hall, the Kimball Art Center and the Sundance Institute.
Published: July 8, 2020

A Park City tech consultant is taking on a Midway dairyman in the Republican primary for House District 54

Meet the two Republicans squaring off in the June 30 primary to succeed state Rep. Tim Quinn in the district that encompasses Wasatch County and parts of Summit County, including Park City.
Published: June 18, 2020

Park City seeks people for public art board, a way to help create a community canvas

Park City is preparing to select people to serve on the municipal Public Art Advisory Board, an opportunity to brush up on City Hall’s arts efforts and help create a community canvas.
Published: June 9, 2020

Provo developer poised to launch talks with Park City panel about ambitious PCMR project

The Provo firm that intends to acquire the Park City Mountain Resort parking lots for a major development is scheduled to appear before the Park City Planning Commission this week for the first time.
Published: May 26, 2020

Record editorial: The boom times are over, and Summit County and Park City must tighten their belts

Our view: Like businesses and workers, city and county officials are faced with confronting the new economic reality.
Published: May 6, 2020

Recycle Utah is adapting: Overnight recycling hours and an Earth Day celebration with social distance

Recycle Utah is open for business in the overnight hours from 5 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. for people to drop off their recycling.
Published: April 21, 2020

Tom Clyde: Bonanza Drive Maverik’s closing is another step to Park City’s Disneyfication

The closure of the Bonanza Drive Maverik gas station is one more step on Park City's road to inauthenticity.
Published: April 18, 2020

Park City provides rent abatement for tenants in City Hall-owned properties

The abatement covers rent for April and May for approximately 20 tenants.
Published: April 15, 2020

Park City taps ex-Sundance official, former Moab city manager for high-level posts

Park City has hired two deputy city managers, tapping a former high-ranking Sundance Film Festival official for one of the posts and a onetime top staffer in the Moab municipal government for the other.
Published: April 6, 2020

Park City’s planned arts district apparently will be reassessed amid coronavirus turmoil

A member of the Park City Council appeared to suggest a planned arts and culture district will be reassessed in some fashion as City Hall considers budgeting strategies amid the economic turmoil wrought by the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Published: April 1, 2020