The owner of Flanagan’s on Main, John Kenworthy, was initially worried about a steep economic drop as the novel coronavirus spread. The Park City economy, though, mounted a comeback over the last 12 months. Flanagan’s on Main, like other Park City-area businesses, made adjustments to operations that were influenced by the sickness.
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By the end of July of 2020, the spread of the novel coronavirus had already forced an early end to the 2019-2020 ski season in Park City, sent local unemployment soaring and left many in the community deeply concerned about the resort-driven economy.
John Kenworthy, a Main Street businessman, at the time provided an especially dire assessment. The Flanagan’s on Main owner that month declared “the black swan has landed,” using an economic term that describes an unexpected, havoc-causing event like the coronavirus. He had just left office after a term as the president of the board of directors of the Historic Park City A
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Summit County Manager Tom Fisher, who is also a brigadier general in the Utah National Guard, paused during one of the more unusual meetings he’d convened in his time in the top post of the county’s government.
It was March 14, 2020.
Looking around the conference room, Fisher saw top officials from Summit County and Park City, elected officials and department heads in the same room working on the same problem.
In an interview nearly a year later recalling the early days of the pandemic that has changed so many aspects of daily life, Fisher drew on his military experience to describe his thinking at that moment.
Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday extended the ski season by one week, providing a bonus seven days during a winter that was challenging on various levels. The resort moved the closing date to April 11.
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The unemployment rate in Summit County in December was 6.5%, in the range of the numbers through the fall, the Utah Department of Workforce Services reported, additional evidence of a leveling out in the gains since the summer.