Andaz Heber Valley / The Slope: a Wasatch Back development map vs Park City proper

One pin says Park City proper. The other says Heber City.

Same Wasatch Back recreation magnet. Different city hall, different deed stack, and — as of 2026 — a brand-new alpine-village development rising on the valley floor. If you’re watching “what’s new on the Back” before ski season, the question is not whether The Slope looks like a rendering. It’s whether you’re shopping a Heber City phased development anchored by Andaz Heber Valley, or an existing Park City Municipal address — and whether you can name the timeline and the phase that is actually for sale.

This is a development map. It is not a Jordanelle ice-and-cottages day, and it is not a full Heber–Midway–Hideout jurisdiction lesson (that municipal literacy already has its own post). One soft line up front: The Slope sits in Heber City, Wasatch County — not Park City city limits.

US-40 / Wasatch Back highway-and-reservoir geography near Heber Valley — adjacency without guessing drive times. Photo: An Errant Knight, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What Hyatt and Angstrom actually announced

On February 12, 2026, the Park Record reported Hyatt’s plans for Andaz Heber Valley — the brand’s first mountain Andaz — inside The Slope mixed-use masterplan in Heber City (earlier coverage also used the Harvest Village name). Developer: Angstrom Development Group.

The announcement pattern: residences launching spring 2026; staged residential completions through 2029; hotel anticipated open January 2029. Unit mix in that coverage: 85 guest rooms, 62 condominiums, and 140 villas, with residences introduced separately for purchase. Branded-residence sales live at andazhvresidences.com — re-open that site (and theslope.com) nearer publish before you treat any unit mix or phase availability as final.

Groundbreaking followed in early April 2026. The Park Record’s April 3 story and a Utah Business April 30 release place the project in Heber City’s North Village / North Fields area, with full buildout anticipated around 2029 and phased construction described in roughly 8–10 month phases.

What’s in The Slope

Read the stack as inventory, not as a brochure mood:

• Hotel: Andaz Heber Valley — about 85 rooms (prefer the Hyatt / Park Record announcement figure if marketing blurbs drift to “86-key”).
• Hotel-attached condos: 62 private condo units in the hotel building.
• Villas: 140 Hyatt-branded four-bedroom villas (Park Record noted starting around 2,900 sq ft) — phase-one villas marketed to deliver in 2027.
• Retail / restaurants: about 100,000 sq ft planned.
• Workforce housing: coverage notes roughly 130 multi-family affordable workforce units for employees — delivery and eligibility details belong in city and developer docs, not a blog summary.

Amenity inventory in groundbreaking coverage includes a tubing hill (about 200 feet long / 45-foot drop in that reporting), plaza, and wellness programming. Describe those as facilities on the plan — not as a pitch about who should buy.

Official project site: theslope.com (phase-one villas have been marketed as available on that site — reconfirm nearer publish; do not invent a sold-out or percent-sold figure). Interactive sales gallery has been listed at 4006 River Road, Heber City, UT 84032. Builder named in PR: Big-D Construction; architecture GVI + FFKR. Developer tax-revenue estimates in coverage (Angstrom cited roughly $4.45M annual tax revenue from Andaz residences + hotel alone) are developer estimates — label them that way and move on.

Mountain-valley setting mood — illustrative only, not a project rendering. Photo: Unsplash / Unsplash License.

Timeline: broke ground 2026 → villas 2027 → hotel ~January 2029

For a late-October 2026 buyer conversation, the calendar that matters is phased delivery, not a single “open now” date.

Phase-one villas are marketed for 2027. The hotel open is targeted for January 2029. Staged residential completions run through 2029 in announcement language. June 2026 developer progress notes described site clearing and topsoil work, with storm-sewer infrastructure next — useful as color, not as a substitute for Heber City inspection records. By publish week, re-open theslope.com, andazhvresidences.com, and Heber City permits for construction status — and do not invent a percent-complete from a June social update.

Optional short-term rentals through hotel management appear in PR language. That is a purchase-document question, not a blog rule. Nightly-rental and land-use rules do not automatically transfer from Park City Municipal code — pull Heber City rules for The Slope addresses.

Wasatch Back vs Park City proper

Park City city limits, Historic Main Street, and lodging inside Summit County’s Park City Municipal stack (and resort special districts) are a different deed and code world than Heber City. If you’re comparing a new branded-residence / alpine-village development on the valley floor with an existing Park City proper address, start with municipality — then property type — then delivery schedule.

Marketing and PR place The Slope a short drive / “minutes” from Deer Valley East Village and Park City. The Slope “About” copy has also cited about 40 minutes from Salt Lake City International. Those are marketing adjacencies. Run your own map pin on the day and time you would actually drive. Sales-office mailing geography on accessibility materials can list a Park City suite address — that is sales geography, not the project parcel.

Site setting in PR sits along the Provo River / Rock Creek tributary in a North Fields agricultural and wetland context. Park Record coverage documented community groundwater concerns; developers cite Heber City code minimums for dirt cover above historic groundwater, and third-party study disputes aired at planning. Report the process. Don’t adjudicate the engineering in a blog post.

Park City / Deer Valley recreation magnet — contrast with a Heber City deed and property type without collapsing jurisdictions. Photo: Tony Webster, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Flags before you treat a rendering as a closing date

A few calm hedges for the kitchen table:

• Prices: groundbreaking-era coverage had prices “to be announced”; PR language has floated residences “in the millions” only as prior-estimate color. Don’t publish a price sheet from a blog — pull live sales materials on theslope.com and andazhvresidences.com.
• Unit counts: if blurbs disagree (85 vs 86-key), prefer the Hyatt / Park Record announcement and confirm on the sales docs.
• Drive times: East Village, Main Street, SLC — traffic-dependent marketing.
• Construction / Heber permits %: re-open Heber City permits plus developer updates nearer publish — do not invent a percent-complete.
• Workforce housing: timeline and eligibility need primary docs.

If you’re comparing a Heber City new-development address at The Slope / Andaz residences with Park City proper inventory, I’m glad to map jurisdiction, phase delivery, and the documents that actually control — not a sales-gallery pitch. Confirm live pricing and phase status on theslope.com and andazhvresidences.com before you decide.

Talk with Esteban J. Nunez — Park City Realtor.