Dentons represented King Development on its voluntary cleanup and zoning approvals for nine new homes on the Alice Claim, a historic mining property on nine acres at the top of Old Town, Park City, Utah below the Silver King Mine. After purchasing the brownfield property in 2005, King began conducting a voluntary cleanup in 2008 to remove contaminated soils and surface waters. Working through a decade-long zoning process, Park City approved the Alice Claim subdivision plat for nine single-family home lots. This past week, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ) issued to King a certificate of completion for the cleanup that was recorded with the Summit County Recorder and which secures limited liability protection for King and future buyers and lenders. King plans to close its first lot sale in the next few weeks.

Dentons lawyer and co-leader of the firm’s US environmental practice, Brad Cahoon, who represented King Development said, “King has gone above and beyond to remove a significant threat to public health and the environment and simultaneously create a sustainable community that is better than how they found it.”

The Dentons team included Brad Cahoon, whom began helping King in 2007, and associate Ty Cahoon. They were joined by Gregg Brown of DHM Design and Kathy Harris of DK Environmental, LLC, among other talented professionals.