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Yesterday we took a look at visitor nights in Park City.  It showed that since 2010, visitor nights were down in December, February, March,…

We know what you are thinking. Vail is coming into Park City and that means ski growth is going through the roof. They don’t…

We heard interesting speculation over the weekend.  Someone asked what POWDR Corp was planning on doing with the Gorgoza sledding hill since it wasn’t part…

We went to check out the Park City Film Studio at Quinn’s Junction this weekend to see the asphalt that was supposed to be…

We’ve heard some more info about Park City Brewing and we are getting excited. A few weeks ago we read a building notice that…

Many Jeremy Ranch residents are up in arms over a proposed expansion of commercial property across from the Jeremy Store. There was supposed to…

During today’s Local News Hour on KPCW, City Council Member Dick Peek was discussing the Kimball Arts Center with Leslie Thatcher. He said, “We develop codes and ordinances and expect everyone to abide by them. If the public comes out and says they are against something. We don’t weigh that as a general item. We apply the code.”

As harsh as that seems, he is right. What the public says doesn’t matter. It’s the “law” that matters.

In Wednesday’s Park Record, Jay Hamburger reported that former Park City Mayor Dana Williams may be hired by Park City Film Studios as a consultant. We can think of three reasons for hiring Williams.

We heard some unfortunate news today. It appears within the last couple of days Cathy Clark has resigned from Friends of Animal Utah. Cathy had been Director of Operations for a number of years.

Throughout the debate of whether the Park City Film studio should be built at Quinn’s Junction that culminated in 2012, we continued to hear that Park City needed to annex film studio land into the city, so that the city’s development codes could be used. The implication was that Summit County would have somehow allowed a monstrosity to be built while Park City would use its strict design guidelines to help create the next Taj Mahal.