- Vail Resorts enters into a long-term lease with Talisker for first mountain resort in Utah.

- Canyons will be included in the Epic Season Pass for the 2013-2014 winter season.

BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vail Resorts today announced that the Company has entered into a long-term lease with affiliate companies of Talisker Corporation for Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah. Under the lease, Vail Resorts has assumed all of the resort operations of Canyons while Talisker has retained its development rights for four million square feet of real estate at the resort.

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Park City, Utah - Jean-Georges Vongerichten may have a toehold on the Park City dining scene at the St. Regis, but most of the new culinary firepower in this town is homegrown. Park City-based restaurateur Bill White operates seven restaurants in town, including local favorites Wahso and Windy Ridge Café. Over the last three years, the chef's protégés have gone on to open the recent crop of critical darlings: Talisker on Main, the Farm at Canyons, Slopes by Talisker and Apex at Montage Deer Valley (which has a beekeeper on staff and serves a beer brewed from high-altitude hops). Fans of top-notch domestic spirits rave about , known for its killer rye whiskey.

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The Salt Lake Tribune reports that for all of Utah real estate, housing continues to rise.  Home sales are up 12% in October from the same month last year, and median house prices are up 5%.  Inventory is also reported to be at its lowest level since 2007.

While the holiday season in the Wasatch Front traditionally has represented a bit of a slower market than the rest of the year, many Realtors are reporting being as busy as ever.  And in the Wasatch Back, Park City real estate is beginning to go full swing with all three ski resorts being open, Deer Valley being the last to open last weekend.

Home sales, prices stay on the rise in Utah - Salt Lake Tribune, Friday December 7th, 2012...  more»