The embattled Kimball Junction development may get its groundbreaking after nearly six years of debate, discussion and resident outcry.
Summit County is following a process laid out in a 2025 state law passed specifically to greenlight a mixed-use project in western Kimball Junction.
County Manager Shayne Scott approved the development agreement the afternoon of July 28 and signed it with representatives from Dakota Pacific Real Estate minutes later.
It allows 885 total housing units, about half of them for workforce, as well as an expanded transit center, park-and-ride and businesses around the Skullcandy building, which Summit County will repurpose to replace its existing library and offices.
A handful of people spoke at the public hearing in Coalville July 28, all of them about public opposition to the project.
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