What’s in the Gondola for me?
It’s more than just a gondola; this project will increase annual tax revenue by more than $10 million without raising your taxes. Approximately $4 million of that will go directly to Ogden City schools, and the rest to our community. It will create about 1,200 new jobs and generate business bringing more shopping, restaurants and hotels to downtown Ogden. It’s a year-round mountain resort with skiing, hiking, biking, dining, paragliding, and sightseeing that will add miles of new trails and open space. It’s a new and improved Mt. Ogden golf course open to locals at about the same fees as today, and it eliminates the public subsidy of $300,000 per year. It’s a project that will attract more students to Weber State University, generating more money for the school. All improvements and new recreation will cost less for Ogden residents than for visitors and tourists.The gondola system will tie this all together for
