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Bonanza Park: a new plan, a billionaire backer and, soon, momentum?

"It's better to build in a redevelopment area . . . than it is to put it out in our natural setting and sprawl outward," said Thomas Eddington, the planning director at City Hall and one of the architects of the redone General Plan..."We don't have a lot of places to put density. Bonanza Park is one," he said...


Bonanza Park covers a swath of Park City roughly bounded on two sides by Bonanza Drive and Kearns Boulevard. It has for years been a utilitarian part of Park City, but a major landowner envisions an ambitious remake of the district. Christopher Reeves/Park Record


City Hall's idea for Bonanza Park includes a pedestrian-friendly streetscape. Shops and restaurants would occupy space on the ground level of buildings while residential square footage would be upstairs. Courtesy of Park City Municipal Corp.

With City Hall growth blueprint finished, developer prepares to press ahead

Jay Hamburger, The Park Record

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It has been nearly a decade since the buzz started about what has been seen as Park City's up-and-coming district.

Developers at one time attached a trendy-sounding moniker to the district, calling it NoMa, short for North of Main. It was re-branded as Bonanza Park, an acknowledgement of two of the important streets in the district -- Bonanza Drive and Park Avenue.

There was only limited progress, though, before the onset of the recession and just a little bit more since the deepest days of the downturn. But the key developer in Bonanza Park, Mark J. Fischer, appears to be readying to pursue the ambitious remake of the district.

Fischer will press ahead with seemingly a better idea of City Hall's desires for Bonanza Park... entire article - http://www.parkrecord.com/



The streets in Bonanza Park, now a hodgepodge, could be redone into a grid system, shown in a conceptual image, over time as projects are developed. A grid system could encourage people to walk or bicycle more frequently, City Hall says. Courtesy of Park City Municipal Corp.

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