By Susan Wood - The Nevada Appeal
May 15, 2001
The Marriott hotel chain is preparing to move dirt under the Heavenly gondola next week, following permit approvals
Monday and a final agreement with American Skiing Co. Friday to build the Grand Summit Resort.
The name is still up in the air for the $100 million hotel-condominium complex that is 83 percent booked by Heavenly
Ski Resort's parent company as part of South Lake Tahoe's Park Avenue Redevelopment Project.
An entourage of company, agency, city officials, and consultants surveyed the job site Monday. With city approval
and a pre-grade inspection from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency completed, the standard prep work for next week's
mass excavation is planned today.
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