Cleanup Cuts Profit

Extell’s grand purge of the Mayflower Mine, now a repository below the skiers’ parking lot at Deer Valley East Village, has injected a new batch of oxidized copper into the aesthetic ledger. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality, having signed off with a certificate of completion, guarantees that the layered, capped soils will not mar the resort’s white‑snow façade. Yet the return on investment hinges on a program of annual HOA inspections and water‑testing that will bleed into operating costs, dulling the projected margin on a second winter’s occupancy. The once‑bleak acreage now leans on the chrome‑finish of corporate discipline, but the holographic sheen over a polluted past feels more gimmicky than genuine. End of story: buy for status, sell for cash, or sue the HOA for not keeping the cover tight. The sensible officer would choose to sell.