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New film studio in the works
Masque Studios Utah has sights set on Boyer Tech Park
Gina Barker, The Park Record
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A new film studio project has been proposed in Summit County, with initial talks underway and notifications sent out to county officials. The company Masque Studios Utah hopes to construct a $100 million facility in the Boyer Tech Park located in Kimball Junction.
The developer is proposing to take a majority of the allotted space in the tech park, with plans that include 25 buildings, roughly 500,000 square feet of space spread over 35 acres. As currently planned, the studio would include a large campus-like area, a state-of-the-art digital post-production facility, eight digital sound stages, a 350-seat fully digital 3D theater and a convention center, said Steve Perry, the founder of Masque Studios Utah. It would also create more than 1,000 construction jobs for locals and more than 2,000 jobs working on various films scheduled once the studio is completed, he added.
"I want to build a motion picture studio in the digital age that would be this organic hot bed of digital media awareness, a think tank, a place to build relationships," Perry said. "I wanted this campus-vibe to the project.
"Microsoft , Apple and Nike, these are companies that have beautiful campuses for their employees, and that idea, all of that, is what I want to bring to the table."
Perry has been in the film industry for more than three decades, working on projects such as the "Lethal Weapon" films as well as the Robert Redford classics such as "Ordinary People" and "A River Runs Through It." Perry started Masque Studios Utah, to focus primarily on independent film projects, but said it would be capable of handling large scale digital green screen studio projects as well. The intent is to create a brick-and-mortar location that would support all aspects of the film-making process, from screen writing to directing to post-production, he said.
The Boyer Tech Park, a project that has already received county approval, was green lighted as a 50-acre development a total of 1,295,000 square feet of commercial development for office and research facilities that would create high-paying jobs in Summit County.
Four hundred acres of land surrounding the tech park was set aside as a preserve, an effort among county officials to limit the amount of construction along the entrance to Park City. In the provision establishing the preserve, the Boyer Construction Company was approved to build the tech park with set limits on what the 50-acre space could be used for: to create high-paying, sustainable jobs...
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Originally, Perry intended to locate the studio in New Mexico but said he has been considering relocating to Park City for over a year. The shift away from New Mexico came after the governor of the state began to restructure state tax credits on film production. Perry started exploring potential properties along the Wasatch Front, but ultimately decided on Park City as the perfect place for the studio.
Masque also plans to include a large music component to the studio.
"We were very excited," said the Boyer Tech Park Project Manager Dave Allen. "We think it was a good use of the property, a lot of the same upsides the tech park had, creating a good job base and tax base."...
Deer Valley focused on Silver Lake-Main Street gondola route
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The resort sees line along the Marsac Avenue corridor as promising
by Jay Hamburger - THE PARK RECORD
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Deer Valley Resort is continuing to research the possibility of building a gondola linking the resort's slopes to Main Street, an idea that was discussed midyear but has been little talked about publicly since then.
Resort officials have spent the time since the summer considering different options and say they are focused on several possible alignments.
Bob Wheaton, the president of the resort, said Deer Valley is researching a small number of spots in Silver Lake Village as the location for one of the terminals. He did not provide details but said the terminal in Silver Lake Village does not need to be located on the ski slopes themselves.
That would open up more possibilities for the terminal in Silver Lake Village. He said Silver Lake Village is centrally located and skiers are able to reach much of the resort's terrain from the lifts accessible there. He noted that the gondola would be in use during the summer as well as the ski season, making Silver Lake Village attractive as a terminal location.
Deer Valley, he said, sees the Brew Pub parking lot as the location of the terminal on Main Street, something that was discussed publicly earlier. The Brew Pub lot is owned by City Hall...
Park City ranked 3rd Most Expensive Ski Town
by Gina Barker - The Park Record
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According to a recently released Trip Advisor index, out of 20 popular North American ski destinations, Park City is among the most expensive. Following closely behind Aspen and Vail, Park City was ranked the third most expensive town to stay in on the TripIndex Ski, an annual index released from the popular vacation website.
At an estimated $677.05 in calculated costs, the index included average hotel, ski rental, lift ticket, meal and beer prices in town. Vail was listed as the most expensive, totaling $745.56, followed by Aspen at $673.06. Salt Lake City, the only other Utah destination on the list, was listed as the cheapest ski town destination, roughly $238.58 in total.
According to the index, Park City had the second most expensive hotel prices at $524.08 behind Vail, a number Trip Advisor calculated using an average of the hotel prices in a five-mile radius of each listed town.
Average ski rental costs were the highest on the index at an estimated $45.33, but lift tickets were closer to the bottom half of prices at $85. The most expensive was Vail, Colo. at an estimated $105. Both food and beer prices were below the average cost, with lower meal costs than Salt Lake City...
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