Park City Talk

Making Snow

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 at 7:59pm. 249 Views, 0 Comments.

Park City Mountain Resort will be opening Nov 28th with Payday and First Time lifts in operation. The early snow helped create a base up top, but warm weather has forced them to make snow for the lower runs.

Promontory Bankruptcy information

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 7:36pm. 262 Views, 0 Comments.

Back in March Pivotal Promontory filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of title 11 of the US Bankruptcy code.  A creditors' committee was formed to consult, investigate, and make a plan for the reorganization.  You can read about where it is today at http://www.promontorycommittee.com/.

Ski Swap weekend

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 1:20pm. 236 Views, 0 Comments.

November 7-9th, 2008 is the annual Park City Ski Team ski swap.  www.parkcityskiteam.org

The Newpark Field House at Redstone will be home to the swap this year.

If you want to get rid of some equipment, get it there by November 6th (Thursday) at Jans, Coles, or White Pine.  You can also drop it off at the Field House Friday from 3-7pm.

Looking to buy, $8 gets you in on Friday night from 8pm to 1am to have the first pick of stuff.  Saturday is $5 from 10am to 6pm, Sunday 10-2 is only $2 for the leftovers.

Two Way Street - pay less taxes

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 7:59pm. 215 Views, 0 Comments.

This might sound crazy, but I want this Blog to be useful for you.  Shoot me an email or comment on this post and we'll get you the Park City and Deer Valley info that you want.

For those that are reading, here's your tidbit.

The County will be establishing the value for your property taxes for 2009.  The amount you get taxed will be determined based on value of the property on January 1, 2009.  The soft market right now should mean that as angry as many were that they were overvalued this year, you'll be sitting pretty for next year.

Now, when you get the preliminary bill, there is a 'fight this amount by' date.  You'll be downloading the valuation dispute form from SummitCounty.org.

Realtor.com Featured listings

Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 7:45pm. 220 Views, 0 Comments.

I've taken the time, and invested the money, we have 4 of the featured listing spots.

www.Realtor.com is the most searched website for buyers of real estate nationwide.  That is to say, 8% of buyers look at Realtor.com during their search.  The other 92% find agents directly via Google and Yahoo.

How do you get noticed on the one busy site?  You buy featured spots, at roughly $3000/each.  We have four that we rotate listings through.

Here's an example:

Missed it by $40 Million

Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 12:24pm. 200 Views, 0 Comments.

The Park City Building Department reported on the final September 2008 figures this past week.  $134.6M in construction permits were issued last month.  That's down from Sept 2007's figure of $174.1M, just one year ago.

All in all, I would say that still shows fine growth, maybe more in line with demand, and not containing any excesses for the spec home builder.  Park City remains a small local resort economy.  Although not all the Realtors and builders are lining their pockets with gold as they had in the previous years, there is still plenty of money, snow, luxury, views, schools, etc to go around.

New Shadow Mountain Subdivision

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 12:42pm. 250 Views, 0 Comments.

Shadow Mountain in Park City Utah

Two new homes have been built in Park City by the very high end contractors of Mark Pappis and Glenn Weight Construction.  A private 6 lot subdivision located 2 minutes from the base of the Canyons Ski and Snowboard Resort, each home has tremendous views of the surrounding mountains.

Featuring trestles from the Great Salt Lake, reclaimed flooring, radiant floor heat, air conditioned, oversized 3 car heated garage and heated driveway, Crestron whole home distributed audio/video and automation, 5 fireplaces, each bedroom a separate suite, 4 in all, plus an office, every counter a unique slab of granite or marble, a full home theater and a wet bar that's decked out with dishwasher/fridge/microwave/sink.

The main kitchen is a…

Willow Creek Park

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 12:13pm. 251 Views, 0 Comments.

Willow Creek Park is our newest community park located off Old Ranch Road with amazing views of the Canyon’s Ski Resort. In the winter the pond becomes an Ice Skating rink, and the trails around the park become a great place for cross country skiing.

Adjacent to the park space, there are 66 acres of undeveloped open space under a conservation easement with Utah Open Lands. With multi-use playing fields, tennis, basketball, volleyball courts and a great picnic pavilion for Birthday Parties or Family reunions. This park is surrounded by beautiful homes. A must see !

Park City Film Series - Man on Wire

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 12:44pm. 232 Views, 0 Comments.

The Park City Film Series is dedicated to providing to the residents of Park City and the surrounding area opportunities to experience and view motion pictures not always available in mainstream theaters.

This past weekend the film series showed "Man on Wire" a Documentary about Philippe Petit’s  daring but illegal, high wire routine performed between New York City’s World trade Center’s twin towers in 1974 it is what some consider "the artistic crime of the century" It won the grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIawNRm9NWM

This is one of the most inspiring films I am so glad the Park City film Series brought it to us. There are some movies that leave you thinking and give you a great experience this one did…

Park City and Summit County buy Kimball Junction land

Monday, October 20th, 2008 at 7:10pm. 236 Views, 0 Comments.

Most of you are new readers to this Park City Real Estate News page, the old blog just didn't have what it took.  So, thanks for reading.

New Open Space acquisition!

Park City and Summit County are working towards a December 15th date to finalize a joint 680 acre purchase of open space which could eliminate the prospect of 800 new homes on the west side of 224 at Kimball Junction.

340 acres of the 680 is land that is owned by the LDS church at Kimball, roughly between the McDonalds and the Bear Hollow Project, jaround the Olympic Park entrance road.  Since the stop lights at Kimball seem to be jammed with traffic at times, this can only help.

The other 340 acres is in Round Valley, a part of town between Park Meadows and the National Ability Center on route…