Extell and Deer Valley get me confused

Early August, Extell, a development company that purchased the Mayflower area, next to Deer Valley, has been announcing all over the places that it’s building a new mountain resort adjoining the famous Utah resort, near Park City, Utah.

Some 5,600 acres of private land have been purchased in recent years to build about 1,500 residential units, including single homes, hotel rooms and condos. This project will also include a base area complete with shops, restaurants, and other services.

Named Mayflower Mountain Resort, the project will be part of Deer Valley’s expended skiing, adding six lifts and opening 900 acres of new terrain. While the first lift should be built next summer, the whole project might take between 15 to 40 years to be completed, so many of us may never see the final masterpiece.

Since the current Mayflower and Sultan lifts are on that planned resort property a 199 year lease agreement has been signed with Deer Valley, while there seems to be no operating agreement yet for Deer Valley to run the ski operations at Mayflower Mountain Resort, plus a bunch of other details still up in the air, as the press-release seems to have caught Deer Valley off-gard.

One may wonder how skiers will get to the bottom of that low laying resort, in an age of global warming, and how crowded all the Deer Valley ski runs will be when the new village occupants are let loose. Big splashing news for sure, but with plenty of questions for the loyal Deer Valley clientele...