The Waldorf=Astoria Collection and DuVal Development have announced the Dakota Mountain Lodge, a Waldorf=Astoria Collection hotel and their first ski management property. The lodge is in Park City, Utah and is part of The Canyons, Utah's largest ski and snowboard resort. It will have 197 guest rooms ranging from studios to a six-bedroom penthouse. The units will include custom Viking appliances, European showers, Jacuzzi tubs, and an outdoor pool and fire feature. Dakota Mountain Lodge will also have a Golden Door Spa with 20 treatment rooms. Other highlights nclude a 15,000-square-foot ballroom and meeting space with its own kitchen, a 5,000-square-foot signature restaurant and lounge, and screening rooms designed to suit the Sundance Film Festival. The opening is scheduled for spring 2009 and a second phase of 137 guest rooms in 65 condo units will commence construction in 2008.
Someone in Park City, Utah has a bit of a French fetish. How else to explain this castle-like home with its medieval-style wooden gate, a stone guard house and a charming little peaked guest house complete with a clock above the door. In the main home the style vacillates between genuine vintage French antiquities and reclaimed pieces (the master bedroom seems to have a gorgeous vintage red marble fireplace) to the standard faux-European style we see in so many new homes. The listing says the home has five bedrooms and is 6,288 square feet. Noteworthy details include the charming round windows set into the peaked dormers, the antique angel hovering over a sitting area in the master bedroom and a chandelier in the laundry room. I'm not sure why you would need a chandelier in the laundry room but this home isn't about need, it's about the desire to create a Frenchified fantasy in the middle of ski country. It is listed at $5.9 million which looks to be a reduction from a $7 million listing price.
This home in the Park Meadows area of Park City, Utah is a bit of a strange duck. The home has nine bedrooms with over 22,000 square feet of living space. The home is angular and modern and the pictures reveal some really huge spaces. The kitchen seems to have some sort of mirrored ceiling and there seem to be a lot of spaces dedicated to play with both a poker table and a foosball table in evidence. The home's design is so strange that it seems like it would be a hard sale. It is listed at $4.9 million.
Talisker in Park City, Utah is over 10,000 acres that includes a wide variety of developments. The latest is Tuhaye, a collection of mountain retreats surrounding a Mark O'Meara-designed golf course. Ownership at Tuhaye also includes an invitation to the Talisker Club. The Christopher Homes at Tuhaye include cottages, attached homes with two residences per building which range in size from 2,045 to 3,009 square feet and feature three and four bedrooms. There are also cabins, single-family homes that range from 3,112 to over 5,221 square feet and feature three bedrooms with a study, and up to seven bedrooms. These homes start in the upper $1 millions.
Don't let the rustic barnboard-style exterior fool you, this is a seriously posh home. Today's home is part of the Promontory--The Ranch Club, a second home community in the Park City, Utah area. Promontory is a luxury development with championship golf courses, a kids-only clubhouse, a hiking cabin and an equestrian center. The 10,007 square foot home is fully furnished and has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms. The home overlooks the 12th hole of the Pete Dye Canyon golf course. It has a gourmet kitchen, elevator tower with enclosed bridge, an interior atrium with full grown trees and dry creek to bring the outside in, a home theater, three-car heated garage, hot tub, two master bedrooms and eight televisions. This rough timbers inside and out were reclaimed from a 120 yr old Oklahoman barn. This home is listed at $5.5 million. After the jump, an old barn's new life.
Park City, Utah is getting a new posh place to stay. The Sky Lodge will be home to 22 time share residences that combine classic ski house looks with the latest in luxury. The $36 million six-story structure is designed to be eco-friendly using local indigenous materials, and green building standards that meet or exceed the international LEED requirements. The residences range from 1,260 square feet to over 2,700 square feet of living space and have decks with private hot tubs and views of Old Town and the mountains. The homes include gourmet kitchens, living areas with fireplaces, custom beds and master bathrooms with glass showers and soaking tubs. Some of the three-bedroom units have a home theater room with a 40-inch flatscreen and a wet bar.
Amenities include the Amatsu spa, a fitness center and the Sky Club, a rooftop retreat with a soaking grotto, fire pit, outdoor kitchen and lounge chairs. Complimentary cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served at 5:00 p.m. every evening.The Sky Lodge property is also home to three restaurants, including Easy Street Brasserie and Bar Boheme, a bar with an extensive wine cellar, live jazz, and a deck with fire pit. Each ResortClub member at The Sky Lodge owns a deeded one-eighth fee simple interest in one of the luxury residences on the property and is entitled to 35 nights per year in their own residence. 65 percent of the shared ownership interests already sold and the Sky Lodge should be open November 2007.
This new home in Heber City, Utah is another example of the ski house on steroids. Like the massive Park City home I saw a while back, this one seems to be designed for giants. The seven-bedroom home is over 17,000 square feet. Instead of being a standard log cabin Western this home has a more of an Austrian ski house feel, a brick fireplace instead of river stones, highly finished beams as opposed to more rough hewn ones. Details of the home include a deluxe masterbath with mountain views from the whirlpool tub, an indoor pool, home theater, an entertainment room with a bar and a ski prep room. It is listed at $28.975 million.The virtual tour is here. After the jump, Paul Bunyan's ski getaway.
Today's estate takes us to another frosty winter location, Park City, Utah. This six bedroom home is located on a hilltop and has views of Park City as well as Jordanelle Resevoir. The over 10,000-square-foot home has features such as a ski prep room, plenty of fireplaces, an elevator, ski storage and an oversized garage. It's very similar to the last estate we covered in the Deer Creek estates nearly two years ago and the price $8,388,607, is also close, although I prefer the style of this home a bit more. After the jump, the very rough-hewn pool table.
I don't usually choose estates still under construction but you can already tell that this Park City, Utah home is going to be a stunner. In a way it's almost more fun to see it in this phase, before it is completed so that you can appreciate how much work goes into creating a home of this size. This massive 33,000 square foot lodge is lcoated at the base of The Canyons impressive Ninety-Nine Ninety and Peak Five chair lifts. The huge home will have 14 bedroom suites, a hotel-quality spa, 25 seat theatre, exceptional wine cellar/retreat and a 16 car underground garage. It is listed at $25 million. After the jump, it takes a small forest to create a home this large.
