Five updates at Kimball Junction

Kimball Junction is where a lot of Park City runs errands. It is also in the middle of a planning argument that has gone on for years. These are five things that are public as of late September 2026. They are not a prediction of what the junction will feel like later.

This paving season is winding down

On September 23, 2026, KSL reported that UDOT and High Valley Transit are wrapping work on State Route 224: new turning lanes at Deer Valley Drive and Park Avenue, and work near Kimball Junction. High Valley Transit told KSL that one more paving project was planned the following week, and that most of that construction should be finished by the end of October 2026. If you drive 224 every day, that is the update that changes this month. It is not the end of the transit project.

The bus is a 2028 service

The larger project is High Valley Transit’s bus rapid transit line along SR-224, the Bobsled Express, from Kimball Junction toward Old Town. The agency’s project page says the work runs in phases through summer 2028, with a winter pause. KPCW reported on August 31, 2026, that chief development officer Gabe Shields called the road-widening largely done, with UDOT then paving and restriping, and that the transit construction is on schedule for 2028. He described about seven miles of designated bus lanes, meant to ease the winter line on 224. Service in 2028 is the date to remember. This ski season is not it.

Junction Commons is approved. The unit count is not settled in the coverage.

On September 8, 2026, the Summit County Council unanimously approved the Junction Commons redevelopment at 6699 N. Landmark Drive, the former Outlets Park City site. TownLift reported that Ordinance 1021 rezones the property from Town Center to Neighborhood Mixed-Use 1 and approves a 19-building plan. The top of that story describes 300 multifamily units, 70 townhomes, and about 55,000 square feet of commercial space. Further down, the same story describes the approved plan as 340 homes, including a large deed-restricted share, and notes that some existing retail buildings stay. We will not pick a unit count the article states two ways. What is safe to say: the council approved a plan to add housing, shops, and pedestrian connections to a car-oriented retail site. Approval is not a certificate of occupancy, and it is not a home you can tour.

Altus has lots, not buildings

The project formerly known as Dakota Pacific is now Altus Park City. The developer is now Six Ridge Partners. On August 25, 2026, the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission approved a preliminary subdivision that splits two parcels west of the PEAK Center into six lots. TownLift reported Lot 2 for a first affordable phase of 155 units, Lot 1 for a first market-rate phase, Lot 4 for a future medical and commercial use, Lot 5 for assisted living or senior housing, and Lot 6 as the planned location of the Kimball Art Center. County planner Jennifer Strader told the commission the hearing was only to subdivide parcels. Buildings still need their own approvals. TownLift has also reported that the first workforce-housing phase cannot get final permits until UDOT fully funds specified road improvements. A neighborhood is not a groundbreaking.

Two smaller facts from that reporting, because they change how you give directions. The County Council renamed Tech Center Drive as Nordic Drive in August 2026. Six Ridge described a future trail between two of the lots, generally along the Chevron pipeline corridor, toward Junction Commons. That trail is not drawn on the preliminary neighborhood. Foundations, the developer said, cannot sit in the pipeline easement.

The paths you actually ride are detoured

High Valley Transit’s construction page lists trail detours for the 2026 season, April through November. The McLeod Creek trail on the east side of SR-224, from just north of Silver Springs and Bear Hollow to Canyons Resort Drive, is restricted, with a detour via Bear Hollow, Cooper Lane, and Canyons Drive. Another stretch of that east-side trail, between Silver Springs and Cutter Lane, is restricted. The Millennium Trail on the west side between Landmark Drive and Olympic Parkway is restricted, and so is the sidewalk on the west side of Park Avenue between Lame Dog Lane and Empire Avenue. Check the agency’s map before you assume last year’s line. A detour moves.

We are not publishing prices, months to sell, or a traffic model. Jeremy Ranch, on the north side of the freeway, is a house question of its own. The mailbox is hello@melillidavis.com.