Thursday, October 20, 2005

Air Force to Build 4-Season Resort...at Park City

More good news for Ogden's Ski Hub Visionaries:
Air Force to build resort in Park City
by G. A. Volb
Ogden ALC Public Affairs

Members of Team Hill will be some of the people who will enjoy reduced lodging costs and recreation opportunities in a future world-class, four-season military resort in Park City, Utah.

The Park City project would be the first Air Force lodging, recreation and conference facility funded, developed and managed by the private sector, with Department of Defense employees “reaping the benefits,” according to Jim Sutton, Ogden Air Logistics Center Director of Plans and Programs.

The project incorporates the use of 26.61 acres that has been deeded to the Air Force, known as the Silver Mountain site. The acreage is on the north side of State Highway 248 in Park City. When constructed, the facility will offer active duty and retired military persons and Department of Defense civilian employees a year-round recreational opportunity.

More....
"The authorization to trade the Air Force land at Snowbasin for another parcel in Park City was included in the 2002 DOD Authorization Act. "

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"'While the Army’s Armed Forces Recreation Center provides a four-season Morale, Welfare and Recreation facility in Garmish, Germany, there is no parallel capability stateside adjacent to a major metropolitan area and airport,' Mr. Sutton said. Other facilities that offer similar discounted military lodging are in Hawaii and near Disney World in Orlando, Florida"

Here's more on the Garmisch facility.

Oops????

Did another Big Fish just get away?"

And what's this about Uber Ogden Lift Ogden/Weber Chamber ostensible booster Wynn Covieo, aka "program manager" for Hill AFB’s "Partnering and Business Development division," acting as eager spokesman for this deal that delivers the goods to Park City and screws Ogden over? Is he saying he's happy about this? Say it ain't so, Mr. Covieo! The least you could have done is bitch about it a little bit. I guess it all depends on which group you're sucking up to at the moment though, eh?

And what say our gentle readers about this?

Update 10/24/05 8:26 a.m. MT: The Salt Lake Tribune had some harsh words about this plan in this Saturday morning editorial.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wynn Coveio is what we call in my home state, Texas, "Big hat- No cattle."

Anonymous said...

Oh noooo Mr. Bill tell me it isn't so.

Our dear Ogden HUB promoters couldn't even get our own home town Air Force base to buy into our home town dream of being the center of the ski universe!

Are these guys just another gang that can't shoot straight like the moroono's at city hall?

At this rate Roy will have a gondola before we do.

Anonymous said...

Hey, Layton has a gondola and a big ski convention coming, why not Roy?

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