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Park City

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Park City, town (1990 pop. 4,468), Summit co., N central Utah, in the Wasatch Range. A former mining town whose silver and other deposits were mined out, it was a nearly ghost town by the 1950s but has since become a major skiing center and a bedroom community for Salt Lake City and Provo-Orem. Growth followed discovery of silver and lead (1868); George Hearst Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 1842–1919, became a prominent philanthropist and donated freely to the Univ. of California for buildings, expeditions, and facilities.

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See biography by C. M. B. and F. Older (1933, new ed. 1966).
..... Click the link for more information.  made millions from the Ontario Mine. A fire destroyed much of the town in 1898. The Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City, as were skiing events during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.


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Carey Battery Park City Authority Board of Directors today designated Milstein Properties as the developer to build two "green," residential towers on its last remaining residential site.
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5 million "Park City Silver Mine Adventure" theme park opened at United Park City Mine's historic Ontario Canyon site in December.
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Urstadt, the founding chairman and chief executive officer of the Battery Park City Authority, recommended the expansion and privatization of Battery Park City, the 100-acre public/private development created on landfill in the Hudson River in lower Manhattan.
Battery Park City veteran calls for expansion plans by Real Estate Weekly
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