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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – Park City\u2019s City Council approved incentives to fund a $500 million entertainment complex called Champtown, which includes an estimated $145 million in STAR bonds.<\/p>\n
The ordinance passed with an 8-1 vote after nearly an hour of presentations from the developers and questions from council members. Ward 2 Council Member George Glover was the only member to oppose the measure.<\/p>\n
Charles Schwanke, president of the Park City City Council, noted that large projects like this often raise many questions. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re dealing with a project that\u2019s over $500 million, there\u2019s a lot of things that have to be put together first before it can actually go ahead, and I think we\u2019re getting to that point where they\u2019re possibly ready to go ahead and get this thing done,\u201d Schwanke said.<\/p>\n
Assistant City Administrator Dana Walden stressed the importance of involving Park City residents in the decision-making process.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important for us to hear from our citizens, we\u2019ve heard that people were interested, and they\u2019re very favorable of this, but we really need to hear from our constituents,\u201d said Walden.<\/p>\n
The Park City entertainment development is expected to feature an aquarium and a 40,000-square-foot multi-sport facility. Developers from Stinson LLP said there are also plans for a boardwalk, a butterfly pavilion, and a hotel with 150 to 200 rooms adjacent to the sports facility. <\/p>\n One major concern raised during Tuesday\u2019s meeting was the timeline for the project. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty common that everyone (projects) takes longer than they want them to, and this one has been that way too,\u201d said Todd Lasala, a partner at Stinson. \u201cI think it\u2019s well worth the wait, and I think the retail commitments they have: the contracts, the letters, the leases to intent, this one feels very real to me. I think there\u2019s a lot of reason to be optimistic from where we stand right now.\u201d <\/p>\n Developers expect the facility to open as early as 2028, with construction scheduled to begin by the end of this year.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kwch.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – Park City\u2019s City Council approved incentives to fund a $500 million entertainment complex called Champtown, which includes an estimated $145 million in STAR bonds. The ordinance passed with an 8-1 vote after nearly an hour of presentations from the developers and questions from council members. Ward 2 Council Member George Glover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[355729,355734,355730,355728,355736,355732,355737,355733,355735,355731],"class_list":["post-1982031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-champtown","tag-developement","tag-kwch-news","tag-park-city","tag-park-city-entertainment-development","tag-park-city-news","tag-park-city-project","tag-star-bonds","tag-stinson-llp","tag-wichita-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}