The company plans to build 500 single-family houses along with a village for amenities and a place to house the organization's non-profit arm. The founders hope that the skiing mecca—an hour's drive north of Salt Lake—will become a year-round community for innovators and other creatives "to solve the world’s most pressing challenges, from environmental catastrophe to access to basic medical care" over a shared chairlift up the mountain.

Physical design will play a large role in creating this idyllic snow-capped development. To guide the construction, Summit has enlisted a diverse team of designers, land planners and architects from places like Studio MA in Salt Lake City, Skylab Architecture in Portland, and Saunders Architecture in Norway. The list of architects also includes Sparano + Mooney in Salt Lake City; Marmol Radziner in Los Angeles; Bicuadro Architects in Rome; Bertoldi Architects in Ogden, Utah; Olson Kundig in Seattle; Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects in Seattle; and Grupo H in Slovenia.

Planning for the site "adheres to a logical grid and strict aesthetic guidelines specifically meant to avoid a dissolution into a ski resort of McMansions and Gucci outposts." The development team has a strong vision centered around pioneering a design aesthetic they call modern (but not modernist) mountain architecture and they have an 125-page book of design guidelines dictating everything down to which shrubs are acceptable to ensure it!