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City Hall continues to require masks in municipal buildings, opting to keep the rule intact even after the end of a state mandate.
The mandate was lifted last weekend, but individual businesses and property owners have the ability to require masks regardless of the mandate’s end. The municipal government issued a statement as the mandate was lifted indicating that it would require masks or coverings inside all municipal buildings. There are exceptions for people who are eating, drinking or exercising.
It seemed likely as the end of the mandate approached the municipal government would enact its own requirement. Park City leaders since the early days of the spread of the novel coronavirus have taken numerous precautions as they attempted to curb the numbers within the community, which was among the first places in the state to suffer a cluster of cases last spring.
Sundance Film Festival-goers lined up for tickets at the Gateway Center in Old Town during the 2018 festival, contrasting with the emptiness of the same location as this year’s edition of Sundance continues. The festival in 2021 relies primarily on an online platform amid the continued spread of the novel coronavirus.
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A lone maintenance worker at the Gateway Center in Old Town slowly pushes a motorized floor cleaner across the tile at 12:45 p.m. on Saturday, the dull hum of the machine the only sound in a common area that is otherwise empty at this moment.
There are just a few walk-in businesses inside the building alongside the office spaces for which it is better known. It is a block off Main Street but has always seemed to be separated, both in physical distance and in ambiance, from the shopping, dining and entertainment strip.