For the first time in more than four decades, North America is getting an entirely new luxury alpine village, and Four Seasons is building at the center of it.
Rising now in Deer Valley East Village in Park City, Utah, the Four Seasons Resort and Residences Deer Valley puts the brand at the base of one of skiing's most storied mountains, with ski-in, ski-out access woven directly into the address. New five-star resorts open every year. New villages do not. East Village is the first purpose-built luxury ski village to break ground on the continent since the early 1980s, and it arrives attached to the largest ski-terrain expansion in North American history at Deer Valley Resort.
The resort itself will hold 134 guest rooms and suites, but the residential program is where the scale of the ambition shows. A collection of 123 private residences runs from one to six bedrooms and roughly 1,200 to 7,000 square feet, every one of them fully serviced by Four Seasons. Owners ski out the door in the morning and come home to the brand's signature staff-in-place service at night, the kind of turnkey mountain living that has made branded alpine residences one of the most sought-after categories in resort real estate.
The layout splits the collection into two distinct experiences. Fifty-five residences sit directly above the resort with immediate ski-in, ski-out access and the full run of hotel amenities below. Next door, a dedicated building holds 68 owner-exclusive residences of one to five bedrooms, wrapped in resident-only amenities for buyers who want the Four Seasons standard behind a private front door.
Behind the project is Extell Development Company, the New York developer best known for reshaping the Manhattan skyline, working in partnership with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. The architecture comes from ODA, the firm led by founder Eran Chen, giving the new village one of contemporary design's most inventive practices at its centerpiece address.
Construction is underway, and the stakes reach well beyond a single resort. East Village is the anchor of Deer Valley's generational growth story, a mountain roughly doubling its ambitions with the biggest terrain expansion the continent has ever seen and a brand-new base village to match. When the lifts start turning out of East Village, skiers will be gliding into a resort landscape that simply did not exist a few years ago, and Four Seasons will be standing at its front door.