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The top official in the organization seeking a Winter Olympics for Utah said on Tuesday he prefers the state host the Games of 2030 rather than those of four years later.
Fraser Bullock, who is the president and CEO of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, addressed a joint meeting of the Park City Council and the Summit County Council at the Utah Olympic Park, covering a wide range of issues. Bullock, importantly, provided a general explanation of the process underway as it is determined which event Salt Lake City and the wider Olympic region will seek. The Winter Olympics in 2030 or the Games of 2034 are seen as possibilities.
“We want 2030,” Bullock told the elected officials.
Los Angeles, however, will host the Summer Olympics in 2028. Back-to-back Olympics in the U.S. in 2028 and 2030 could pose complications since the two organizing committees would be raising monies at the same time. There could also be international indignation under the scenario of consecutive Olympics in the U.S.
Bullock said the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games is weighing the dynamics of the U.S. hosting the Summer Olympics in 2028 and the Winter Olympics in 2030.
He said the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games wants to learn by the middle of the summer whether the Games in 2030 or 2034 will be sought. Bullock said he expects the International Olympic Committee will award the Games of 2030 in 2023.
Bullock, meanwhile, noted that Vancouver, Canada, the Winter Olympic host in 2010, is also interested in staging a second Games. If the British Columbia city is awarded the Games of 2030, it would be more difficult to hold the 2034 event in the U.S. based on a traditional rotation of continents, he said. Bullock also mentioned interest in Sapporo, Japan, which hosted the Winter Olympics in 1972, and in Barcelona and the Pyrenees region in Spain. Barcelona was the 1992 Summer Olympics host.
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee in late 2018 selected Salt Lake City as the nation’s bid city for a Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee is expected to turn its attention to selecting the host of the Winter Olympics in 2030 in coming months after holding the Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the Winter Olympics in Beijing in quick succession as a result of the postponement of the Games in Japan out of concern of the novel coronavirus pandemic. A precise timeline for the selection of a host for 2030, though, is not known.
The Park City area is crucial to the Winter Olympic efforts. Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley Resort and the Utah Olympic Park are identified as major competition venues. The area would also be key to the transportation, security and celebration planning.
The meeting on Tuesday was seen as the beginning of ongoing discussions involving the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games and the two local governments. Park City and Summit County officials are also expected to hold upcoming talks with their individual constituents in coming months.
Central Metro/East - Park City Update, Mayflower Resort
September/October 2020: Excerpts by Alexander Cramer for the Park Record - ...With all the hubbub about growth and development surrounding the Jordanelle Reservoir, the mountains that overlook its western flank seem unmoved...It’s at the base of the mountain where any hint of the future for these hills sits. It’s there that a new 1.2-million-gallon water tank is buried, construction vehicles sit near freshly turned earth and the infrastructure for some of the planned Mayflower Mountain Resort has been laid.
A little over a year ago, developers announced ambitious plans at the site for what they called the first brand-new ski resort to be developed in the United States in 40 years. Sitting on the eastern flank of Deer Valley Resort, Mayflower Mountain Resort was the product of a partnership between New York real estate magnate Gary Barnett and a Utah development agency that was created to solve jurisdictional problems related to military installations and grew large enough to swallow thousands of acres in the Wasatch Back. Plans called for a half-dozen ski lifts, three hotels, 1,560 residential units and 250,000 square feet of commercial space...At a site visit Monday, much had been done in the past few months that wasn’t immediately visible, and that the flurry of activity laid the groundwork for the project to go forward. Brooke Hontz, vice president of development at EX Utah Development, LLC, said the COVID-19 pandemic had knocked the project sideways, like it did many industries, effectively pausing work for a month and shifting its priorities and timeline.But the project has undergone meaningful administrative transformations and improvements, according to Hontz and Kurt Krieg, senior vice president of development at EX Utah Development, LLC, the Utah-based arm of the Extell Development Company. For skiers, that means the ski lifts are now estimated to be turning in time for the 2023-2024 ski season. Last year, Krieg said the hope was for the resort to open for skiing for the 2021-2022 season and for the first hotel to open in the spring of 2022. Now, Krieg said the goal is to start vertical construction of the first hotel in the spring. That is planned to be a 12-story, 615,000-square-foot facility that includes 388 rooms and 55 condos in addition to commercial and conference space. Krieg said it will be designed to be able to hold large-scale conferences, like trade shows for military groups. It will be big enough for a car or a tank or a boat to be put on display, he said. Of the 388 rooms, 100 will be set aside for members of the military. It’s those 100 rooms that make up the U.S. Air Force’s morale, welfare and recreation facility. Originally, the Military Installation Development Authority, or MIDA, became involved in the project to build a facility for members of the military to get rest and relaxation near a Utah ski resort. Its charge was to replace a small ski chalet that was knocked down in the early 2000s.
MIDA has been instrumental in the development of the larger resort concept, with Barnett saying the project would not have happened without the financing options MIDA provides.
In late August, MIDA issued $68.5 million in bonds to finance the infrastructure for much of the planned resort. Krieg said that will pay for key infrastructure like water, sewer and roads.
Soon after the funding came through, MIDA approved a consolidated master plan for the area, providing a high-level look at how the resort will be built and uniting other various approvals, some of which dated back to the 1980s. The master plan calls for two distinct base areas, which are separated by a ridgeline. The Mayflower base area is where the conference hotel will be, while the so-called Pioche base area, just to the north, will feature single- and multi-family homes, a boutique hotel and other amenities.
Krieg said that master plan approval moved the project out of the legislative phase of approvals and into the administrative one, a wonky but important distinction that means that future governmental oversight will be limited to how, not whether, aspects of the project can be built.
Governmental oversight has come in strange forms for this project, with MIDA acting as a jurisdiction like a city or town but with a board of directors made up of officials from around the state.
MIDA has land-use authority for much of the project, though the project is in Wasatch County. The resort area has swelled to 6,800 acres, some 10.5 square miles. Standing on a ridgeline with the various planned ski trails cascading down around her, Hontz extended her arm over a nearby hill and pointed west, saying the property extended about 4 miles to Guardsman Pass...Hontz portrayed the future resort as skier-friendly, and designed chiefly for the skiing experience. She said that homes will not rise above a certain elevation level, contrasting it with the ski-in/ski-out mansions in The Colony, in which skiers at the Canyons Village side of Park City Mountain Resort meander through multi-million dollar homes. Instead, the homes at Mayflower will be lower down and closer to the planned ski village.
The developers have been working with two consulting groups to prepare skier operation programs. SE Group, based in Colorado, designed the resort’s ski trails and is working on resort programming like a ski school, ski patrol, ski rental systems and restaurants. 4240 Architecture, based in Denver, is working on the architectural components, designing the buildings and lodges. Mayflower Mountain Resort has long been envisioned as the eastern portal to Deer Valley Resort, and last year secured an agreement with Deer Valley that allows users to access terrain there through Mayflower’s infrastructure. That means that skiers could use the Mayflower base area and take a lift up into Deer Valley’s terrain, skiing there for the day as long as they have a Deer Valley ski pass. Barnett has said he envisions the two resorts operating together, and Krieg reiterated Monday that would be the ideal arrangement...Wasatch County officials have said that, in approving aspects of the resort, they anticipated it would be operated to the same standard as Deer Valley, which has garnered a worldwide reputation for service and amenities.
Kurt Krieg, a senior vice president with the company developing Mayflower Mountain Resort, describes the infrastructure projects
that will soon be installed on the site just west of the Jordanelle Reservoir as Brooke Hontz looks on. Krieg estimated lifts will start turning at the resort in 2023. (Tanzi Propst/Park Record)
March, 2021
Progress on Mayflower Mountain Resort continues.
Work has continued this winter on the planned Mayflower Mountain Resort beyond the eastern border of Deer Valley Resort, with nearly $70 million worth of infrastructure installed and another $100 million to pay for things like road retaining walls, sewer pipe and snowmaking infrastructure.
Updates, October/November 2021
Mayflower Mountain Resort is anticipated to generate 4,000 daily visits
Alexander Cramer for the Park Record - https://www.parkrecord.com/news/summ...-daily-visits/
With a fresh quarter-billion dollars in the bank, foundations dug into the earth and timber framings rising into the air, Mayflower Mountain Resort continues to progress on the eastern flank of Deer Valley.
And while the weekend’s expected snowfall is exciting for some local skiers, it’ll be at least two years before they’re able to ride those slopes. In the meantime, officials are planning for how the new resort will impact the area, recently revealing some preliminary numbers that give a sense of the project’s scope.
“We are looking at probably 4,000-plus visitors within the area daily. That would be more geared towards, obviously, our peak season,” said Heather Kruse, the area project manager for the Military Installation Development Authority, the state agency that controls thousands of acres around the Jordanelle Reservoir...
Progress continues on the Mayflower Mountain Resort as its impacts — 4,000 projected daily visitors in peak season — come into focus. Courtesy of EX Utah Development LLC
“We’ve got significant growth that’s coming into a very concentrated area. We just want to make sure that we are looking at it appropriately to help mitigate what could be potential traffic issues,” Kruse said in a subsequent interview. “We don’t want to not plan.”
She also told officials the resort will require an estimated 2,300 workers as its first stages are completed.
“We are also looking at employees and getting employees into the area, living there, commuting there and how are we going to plan for that as this comes to fruition,” she said.
Kruse said the teams are considering where to set up transit connections and how to ensure guests and workers can easily access the resort. She said officials are currently considering a dense, mixed-use development planned just across U.S. 40 from the resort as the site for a key transit center, with possible future transit connections to Heber or Park City.
As for housing workers on-site, two high-ranking officials with the New York-based development firm that is building the resort, Extell Development, said the resort would provide workforce housing for as many employees as possible.
Extell has established a Utah subsidiary called Ex Utah Development LLC. Its Senior Vice President of Development Kurt Krieg and Vice President of Development Brooke Hontz detailed recent improvements being made to the site and their strategy for housing workers.
They also said negotiations with Deer Valley Resort about operating Mayflower’s ski terrain remain unchanged, with no agreement in place. And they slightly updated a timeline for the resort’s opening, saying the resort was targeting a first connector lift to open in December 2023. That lift would access Deer Valley’s terrain as well as Mayflower trails, but the balance of the lifts and trails would likely open the following winter, in December 2024.
The five miles of hiking and biking trails are set to open next spring after being shut down recently to avoid conflicts between trail users and construction equipment on the mountain.
The development agreement requires 95,000 square feet of workforce housing, and the officials said about 9,500 of that is currently being used to build 17 workforce housing units.
Hontz said the resort would try to house as many employees as possible, but that it wouldn’t be home to every employee, some of whom will likely rather live elsewhere.
She and Krieg said the resort is planning to build a variety of employee housing styles. They said they weren’t ruling out dorm-style housing like what is being built at the Canyons Village base area, but the resort wouldn’t rely on that exclusively.
The 17 units under construction are one- and two-bedroom apartments as well as studios.
The first buildings expected to be completed at Mayflower Mountain Resort are apartments at what is called the Pioche base area, north of the main base. Officials anticipate the buildings will open next September. Courtesy of EX Utah Development LLC
Hontz said that a relatively small portion of the overall density in the resort core would be occupied by the resort’s employees.
A foundation has been dug for the cornerstone hotel at the resort’s base, known as the morale, welfare and recreation facility, which will be home to a block of 100 rooms reserved for U.S. Air Force service members.
That hotel, some 600,000 square feet in total, is slated to open in the spring of 2024. Another two hotels are in the works, including a high-end resort referred to as the five-star hotel, and a massive 1.6-million-square-foot skier services hotel. That’s the approximate size of the entire development sought at the Tech Center site, a new neighborhood proposed at Kimball Junction.
The first building to come online is expected to be open next September, part of a four-building project at the Pioche base area on the northern end of the resort.
Northern Metro - Major Ski Resort For The Uber Wealthy Coming to Northern Utah (Ogden, Morgan County Area).
The new Wasatch Ranch Club will make two new from the ground up major ski resorts being added to Salt Lake's portfolio in the coming season.
Wasatch Ranch Club skiing for '21-22. Courtesy, Mirr Ranch Group photo
OnTheSnow.com - https://www.onthesnow.com/news/a/637...ng-next-season
...But, when the Wasatch Ranch Club opens its ski terrain in Utah next December, as Ski Area Management (SAM) magazine is reporting, it plans to attack your wallet with gusto and all bets are off.
The Ranch Club will be larger than luxurious Deer Valley and will have only half the number of member/residents who are part of the Yellowstone Club, the other exclusive enclave in Montana. “This is a resort being built for the 1 percent of the richest 1 percent,” Utah’s KPOA radio opined as it interviewed Ranch President Bob Weaton.
Recognize the name? Weaton was Chief Operating Officer for Deer Valley for about 20 years, leading it to regularly being chosen as the best ski resort in America by magazine and website polls. There are reportedly 10 owner/investors in the ranch from across the globe, one of those being Lessing Stern, son of Deer Valley founder Edgar Stern. The ranch property was originally listed for a sale price of $42 million.
Pay dearly to play
Club membership pricing hasn’t been publicly released yet, but it will most likely top that of the Yellowstone Club which currently demands an upfront fee of $300,000, owning a condo ($4 million-plus) or private home ($5 million-plus), along with an annual “season pass” or dues topping $30,000.
But, if you’ve got the juice, the Wasatch Ranch Club will deliver mind-boggling excitement for skiers (anglers, hikers, golfers, and whatever else attracts you to pristine wilderness) as it builds out over the next 10-15 years.
First there’s the location. The ranch is only 35 minutes from Salt Lake City and, if you still need a ski fix after all that sliding, Snowbasin (where the price tag is significantly more doable) is only 10 minutes away. Ogden Airport is 15 minutes should you have your own private jet. Few Morgan County residents will be able to afford membership, so it will be mostly a community of second homes.
Heated seats and bubbles
The club’s total playground rolls over 12,750 acres and that includes some 3,000 skiable acres with a 3,600 foot vertical. Leitner-Poma of America plans to begin construction this spring on the first two chairlifts — both high speed quads. Members will be pampered with high-speed quads, planned with carriers that feature heated seats and bubbles.
The two new chairlifts together will provide access to 1,650 acres of terrain, with a top elevation of about 9,500 feet. One lift will be 8,000 feet long, so those bubbles will be welcome. Nine lifts are planned by buildout.
View of the Wasatch Ranch Ski Resort Mountain properties. This grouping of peaks sits to the south of the grouping of peaks making up the Snowbasin Ski Resort.
Pictured below, Snowbasin Ski Resort. Located on the grouping of peaks to the north of what will be the new Wasatch Ranch Club Ski Resort
There's quite a group of expanding resorts now in this immediate area. I wanted to get a perspective of the location of all of them in relationship to each other.
The Wasatch Ranch Resort will be at the top of the map, on the south side of I-84. Note: the peaks at the top veering to the right of Snowbasin
Map highlighting the location of the new Wasatch Ranch Properties in relation to the existing Snowbasin Ski Resort.
“You just don’t find this type of location in the West very often – untouched and raw with river, trees, adjacency to National Forest and an alpine setting,” said listing broker, Ken Mirr of Mirr Ranch Group, who listed the Utah ranch with his firm’s Utah Marketing Affiliate, Chris Corroon.
Owned by the heirs of the late Dick Bass, the seven-summit pioneer, original investor in Vail, and founder of Snowbird Ski Resort, and the Holding family, owners of Sinclair Oil Company, which owns Sun Valley Resort, nearby Snowbasin Ski Resort, the Wasatch Peaks Ranch has a continuous ridgeline of 11 miles that includes 24 peaks, 15 bowls and cirques, plus a 4,600 foot vertical rise on the ranch and adjacent National Forest. It’s only 15 minutes from Ogden, and 35 minutes from Salt Lake City and its international airport, making this ski property incredibly accessible.
The Land Report, known as the magazine of the American landowner, elaborates, “Matchless in size, terrain, and pedigree, this pristine private wilderness has long been eyed as America’s next great ski resort.” This is the fifth time The Land Report has awarded its top honors to Mirr Ranch Group.
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Last edited by delts145; Apr 14, 2024 at 12:34 PM.
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