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Development Update: 820 Park Ave (Rio Grande)

The old Rio Grande train depot parcel and the depot building itself have been a massive construction site for the last year as the developers ready the space for 10 new condos and a ski-in/ski-out plaza. The project is finally nearing completion, with rumors of a Certificate of Occupancy as early as the end of February, and the closing of all 10 units possibly as early as mid-March.

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Click to see this location on a map. Of course, 820 Park Ave is literally at 820 Park Ave, so if you know where Park Ave is you’re in good shape.

This is a fun time to look at the original renderings and see how close things are to the concept designs:

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(Courtesy of http://www.820ParkAve.com and Summit Sotheby’s International Realty)

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Don’t Hijack Your Own To-Do

After an hour of sales news, company updates, and an inspriational kick-in-the-pants broker moment I leave my Monday morning sales meeting with a head buzzing with ideas and a fire in the belly will to get out there and Hustle Harder.

Stay on target, Gold Leader.

Getting fired up with amazing new ideas is a good thing. However, I suggest that you take 30 minutes to develop these inspirations and write them down. Then, go back to your original “To Do” list for the day and get those items done. (Obviously if something is now irrelevant then get rid of it.) Think of it as a brief marinating period whereby you knock out your current tasks before taking on new ones.

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This brief period will allow your amazing ideas to grow a little, mature a little, and be just a little bit better. I’m not talking about weeks or even days! I’m talking about a few hours where you get your old boring stuff done so you don’t have it cluttering up the creative process. Once you’ve crossed that stuff out (and I bet you’ll be moving at a newly invigorated pace), you will be free and unencumbered to consider your new concepts with all the brainpower and imagination your gamechanging ideas deserve.
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Newsletter 12/15: TWO FEET of New Snow, New Projects, and Maurice Sendak

Happy December!

We’re shoveling out from a whopper of a snowstorm yesterday afternoon/night/this morning. Salt Lake got a whopper last Monday. The snow stake at Snowbird disappeared last night (and the comments are A+, “just quit your job”).

One of the best things to do in Park City after a huge snowstorm is to book yourself into Deer Valley’s Fireside Dining. We’re talking carving off the melty bits of giant wheels of Swiss Raclette cheese, placed precariously close to a roaring fireplace and serving it with cured meats and pickled things; basically my favorite assortment of foods. There are other stations of course of roasted meats and simmering pots but honestly, I’m good with 10 or 12 plates of that cheese and a bottle of wine.

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Beyond Thunderdome: Tips for Driving in the Snow

So it snows in Utah. Like, A LOT. Often. And in tremendous quantities.
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Inevitably, we will have a dramatic storm that dumps like a foot of snow and everybody will need to get to the same place at the same time and traffic will snarl to a halt.

Hundreds of angry drivers who needed a glass of wine an hour ago, all waiting, waiting, spinning, honking, waiting. Here are my top tips for maneuvering this frosty jungle.

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323 Park Ave: A Love Story

Hello, My name is Kristina and I have a thing for historic buildings. Particularly historic buildings in the Wild West. So lucky for me, I sell real estate in an old silver town turned ski resort. Two years ago I toured 323 Park Ave, A CONVERTED SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCH OMG. And, it’s now for sale. If it lasts that long, it’ll be on Open House tour Wednesday, December 9, 2015, and you’d be crazy to miss it. So get ready. Imma lay down some sick history beats.

323ParkAveI saw this house during the Park City Museum’s Historic Home Tour. If you’re ever in Park City in June you have to attend this event.

It’s just a few doors up from where I was living in Old Town and true to rumor, is a converted church and on the national historic registry and obviously the Historic Sites Inventory with Park City. An English-born butcher John William Bircumshaw (who also owned a saloon at 455 Main) deeded the land to St. John’s Swedish Lutheran Church in 1906. In 1907 the structure was built at a cost of $2,197 to serve the 31 local Lutherans (9 Swedes and 22 Finns, for those keeping score at home).

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble gobble!

A quick little video from the Silver Lake area of Deer Valley Resort about a week prior to Deer Valley’s opening day. (Only a small portion of this video is me making turkey noises.)

 

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ATTENTION: IT IS SNOWING

Isn’t this exciting?

Except I really could stand to know where that box with all of our frequently-used winter gear went from the move. Good thing I labeled it “COATS – DON’T LOSE.”

Canyons Village

The genesis of a new ski season and a new, combined resort: Park City Resort. Park City Base is opening November 21, 2015, and Canyons Village (shown here) is set to open November 27, 2015.

So you know, SQUATS.