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Downtown Candy Windows At Macy's


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Downtown Update, December 17th - Block 67


Downtown Salt Lake City to get a $15 million underground parking garage

By Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribunehttps://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/12/...city-approves/

Salt Lake City has approved a way to pump $15 million into building a huge subterranean parking garage for Block 67, an upcoming ambitious residential and hotel project on the western edge of the city’s downtown.

The agreement, backed Tuesday by the City Council in its role overseeing the city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA), clears a major hurdle for what is to be known as The West Quarter, a 6.45-acre development bounded by 100 South and 200 South from 200 West to 300 West.



(Rendering by The Ritchie Group) A rendering of The Ritchie Group's proposed Block 67 development in Salt Lake City, as though looking north along 300 West...



Developers with Salt Lake City-based The Ritchie Group and Garn Development Co. in Layton plan to build more than 650 dwellings, two hotels, an office tower, retail shops, a tree-lined street cut through the block and an underground parking garage with more than 1,200 stalls.


With its four towers and extensive amenities, to be built in two phases, The West Quarter project will push the center of the city’s urban core west, with more robust pedestrian connections between the existing downtown and The Gateway and Vivint Smart Home Arena farther west.

“It really is a good project,” Councilman Charlie Luke said Tuesday. “It really is going to do a lot for the city and especially for that part of the city in terms of redevelopment."...

...Ryan Ritchie, a principal in The Ritchie Group, has said the underground parking garage is integral to the project’s overall financial success...The loan agreement sets up a legal mechanism for the city to give the developers the $15 million in state money for the parking garage, then lets the developers pay it back over time as their project generates additional tax money. Salt Lake City’s RDA will, in turn, pass those payments back to the county...



Additional Renderings of Block 67 - Subterranean garage to serve both Phases I and Phase II



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December 10th - There was a backhoe at Block 67 today, ripping up concrete and demolishing the parking lot gate booths.

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December 5th - Construction fencing is going up around the West Quarter site today!!

Looks like another big project is imminent!!
Jacobsen is partnering with The Ritchie Group and Garn Development to build Phase I of The Block 67 Project. The West Quarter, a multi-use development that will help define the emerging sports and entertainment district in downtown Salt Lake City. The project — adjacent to Vivint Smart Home Arena — will feature more than 650 residential units, a mid-block street with access to 200 South and 300 West, and a subterranean parking garage. The scope of work also includes more than 100,000 square feet of retail space, 430,000 square feet of office space and a 271-room hotel.

Phase I, The West Quarter

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Rendering depicting Phase II of the Block 67 Project

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December 17th


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Downtown Update - The Exchange


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They're moving very quickly on the Exchange (old SLC Roasting Co. location). They're above ground on it now. It's a pretty big construction project.
Covering more than 2 acres of prime downtown real estate... The Exchange is a joint venture between Giv Development, a local development firm, and Domain Properties, a New York based real estate firm. Both organizations focus on building and enhancing the surrounding community, in addition to the physical development. It was designed by KTGY Architecture + Planning. As part of the City's Civic Campus, this mixed-use development will sit just east of the Salt Lake City Public Library. The Exchange is planned to include 216 market-rate and 196 affordable residential units, which will add much needed density to the area. The number of units will total 412 units. Current plans have more than 20,000 square feet of street-front retail space. This ground floor space will be anchored by an international food hall and marketplace in partnership with the International Rescue Committee’s Spice Kitchen business incubator program. Other notable features of the development will include “The Shop at Salt Lake City”, Domain’s innovative co-working and business accelerator platform. The 30,000-square foot space will offer amenities and programming aimed at stimulating entrepreneurship, small business development, and community engagement. The proposal highlights the use of art and green space and commitment to energy efficiency and will be a great addition to the Civic Campus.



Rendering of the northeast corner of The Exchange. Image courtesy Salt Lake City.


Rendering of the southwest corner of The Exchange and People’s Way a city-owned private street. Image courtesy Salt Lake City.




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October Photo Update By Luke Garrott of BuildingSaltLake.com

The Exchange, by Giv Group, center, from the east-northeast. https://i0.wp.com/www.buildingsaltla...68%2C576&ssl=1


October Photo Update By Luke Garrott of BuildingSaltLake.com

The Exchange project, from the east. Podium and elevator shafts going up. https://i1.wp.com/www.buildingsaltla...68%2C576&ssl=1


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December 17th Photo update by Atlas

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Downtown Update - The Quattro

Another underutilized corner of Salt Lake City’s 400 South Corridor is undergoing a drastic change. ...A one-story former Rent-a-Center and Papa Johns buildings were demolished to make way for the Quattro, a seven-story, 95-unit mixed-use development at the northeast corner of the 400 East and 400 South intersection.

...The project is by developers, Wadsworth Development Group and dbUrban Communities and was designed by IBI Group.

The Quattro consists of a two-story concrete podium below five wood-framed floors. The project will have a mix of studio, one, two and three bedroom apartments the majority of which will be one and two-bedroom units.

The ground floor will house 2,355 square-feet of retail space, a sales office, lobby, mail room, storage area for bicycles and structured parking. The apartment and parking entrances will front 400 East, while the retail portion will front 400 South.

Floors two to seven will house the residential units and residential amenities that will include two fitness areas, two hot tubs, a fire pit, lockable storage units and a clubroom. The project will also include two amenity decks, one at the third level that will overlook 400 East and one on the seventh floor that will overlook both 400 South and 400 East. The seventh-floor deck will be partially covered and will include the hot tubs, fire pit and seating area.

The developers also plan to convert a small, one-story building directly east of the site of the new construction building into a Starbucks. The building previously housed a Subway Restaurant. The Starbucks will include a drive-thru and 17 surface-parking stalls...


Rendering of the Quattro as designed by IBI Group. Photo courtesy Salt Lake City public documents.



October Construction Update Photos By Luke Garrott @ BuildingSaltLake.com


The Quattro, by Wadsworth/dbUrban, from the southeast, at 400 South and 400 East.


The Quattro from the west.


400 South and 400 East, from the southwest. Buildings from left to right: Block 44, The Quattro, Encore Apartments, Emigration Court, and The Essex. MODA Bonnevile, near 300 South, center-left.



December 17th - Pic By Atlas



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Downtown Update - 95 So. State - Under Construction



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December 23rd - Four walls are up in the center of the Tower 8 lot. Elevator shaft should be rising soon.


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December 7th - The "BIG POUR" for the Tower 8 foundation is going on right now downtown!!

The steel should be going up soon.

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City Creek Reserve sent out this press release about 95 State (Tower 8)
City Creek Reserve, Inc. Makes It Official:
95 State at City Creek
to be SLC’s Newest Commercial Office Tower


SALT LAKE CITY – City Creek Reserve, Inc. (CCRI) today announced that Salt Lake City’s newest office tower to be constructed on the corner of State Street and 100 South will be named “95 State at City Creek.” The building will be the first high-rise development on State Street in decades.

According to Bruce Lyman, Director of Leasing for CCRI, 95 State’s downtown location and proximity to City Creek Center will offer businesses a compelling new choice for Class-A office space in Salt Lake City.

“95 State at City Creek is designed to appeal to today’s employees,” said Lyman. “Its central location and state-of-the-art amenities are designed to maximize wellness, sustainability and productivity to help our tenants make the most of their workday.”

...The project will include 498,000 square feet of leasable office space and an additional 39,000 square feet of meetinghouse space for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The office tower and meetinghouse will have separate entrances and will be independently operated.

95 State at City Creek will offer office tenants premier amenities such as dedicated executive parking, exercise facilities with daily instructional classes, a private entrance for cyclists with secure bike storage, automated window shading,
and personalized HVAC systems that will allow individuals to control their microclimate.

The building will also feature a 5th-floor garden terrace with 7,000 square feet of landscaping, a lobby with 28-foot floor-to-ceiling glass, on-site restaurant, and a renovated underground pedestrian walkway beneath State Street with direct, protected access to City Creek Center.

95 State at City Creek is designed to be the state’s first WELL Certified building with plans to also qualify for LEED Gold and Wired certifications.

Construction is set to begin this month with completion expected in Fall 2021.

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Note to reporters: Architectural renderings attached to this email.



Courtesy City Creek Reserve, Inc.


Courtesy City Creek Reserve, Inc.


November 9th - December 17th






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December 7th - The "BIG POUR" for the Tower 8 foundation is going on right now downtown!!

The steel should be going up soon.

December 17th



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Downtown - Update, Liberty Sky Apartments - Under Construction




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December 23rd - LIBERTY SKY - The tower crane is onsite at the Liberty Sky Site.


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Intermediate blue crane being installed at Liberty Sky this morning.

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Has anyone out there noticed how shallow the excavation is for Liberty Sky/

It must not be any more than seven or eight feet deep. It just seems really shallow to me for a 24-story building.

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I believe that all the parking is in the structure that they built that will be shared with their 7-story apartment building on 2nd East. So, this is probably just a big matt foundation connected to piles driven into the soil.

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Correct. There is no basement structure to Liberty Sky. All footings sit just slightly below grade.

(Artist's rendition courtesy of Cowboy Properties) Cowboy Properties and Boyer Co. are looking to build a 24-story apartment building on the east side of State Street between the Federal Building on 100 South and the Maverik headquarters building on 200 South. The $90 million project is being praised for its prospects of bringing more residents to downtown Salt Lake City.


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Southern Metro - Lehi - Hutchings Museum Expansion Presented to City Council


Lehi Free Press - Skylar Beltran - https://www.lehifreepress.com/2019/0...-city-council/


... The Lehi City Council was presented with an initial plan for expansion of the Hutchings Museum in Downtown Lehi. The plan was presented by Daniela Larsen, Museum Executive Director and Dave Harris, a contracted urban planner. The presentation offered three expansion options that included a “U” shape, “L” shape and straight bar design around the existing museum building. All three options included modern architecture to contrast and offer a focal point for the historic Memorial building in which the museum is currently housed. Mayor Mark Johnson commented on the contrasting design, “I actually like the modern design, I get the contrast idea, and I’ve seen it be used elsewhere very effectively.”

The idea to expand the museum comes from a desire to grow the offerings at the Hutchings Museum. “We are working on becoming an accredited museum and we need to have certain ceiling heights and other [logistical] things,” said Larsen. The proposed three-story addition would include 70,000 square feet of museum and storage space with the first-floor ceilings at 20 feet high and the second and third floors at 16 feet.

Harris provided the Council with Brooks International’s “20 Ingredients of an Outstanding Downtown,” to suggest what would be needed to create a sustainable area for Lehi. The list included things like a plan, mixed-use buildings, anchor tenants, parking, restrooms, restaurants, and year-round activities. With the expansion presented, Hutchings Museum would be a strong anchor for Lehi’s Downtown area, but the City Council acknowledged other main ingredients are missing. Councilwoman Paige Albrecht said, “I think even without this plan, we are to the point where we need to really consider a parking structure of some kind.” Albrecht’s concern about parking received agreement from the rest of the Council.

At the conclusion of the presentation, Larsen asked the Council, “Where do we go from here?” The City Council offered support for the museum expansion plans including the modern building design, with a preference for the straight bar rendering to highlight the current historic building. Mayor Johnson finished the conversation by asking Larsen and Harris to continue working with City staff on finding a downtown parking garage location.




...The museum started in 1955 when John Hutchings together with his wife Eunice made a donation to the establishment. Items such as minerals, rocks, shells, fossils, eggs, stuffed birds, pioneer items and Native American artefacts were all given away here. The collection of items continues to grow until today as friends of John Hutchings donate them in kind...

...There are interactive exhibits being offered where people can experience firsthand while attentive interns guide visitors all the while. For those majoring in Archeology, Anthropology, Geology, Paleontology, Biology or History, you can also apply for an internship at the museum. The interns are the ones who will provide the educational tours, market the exhibits, catalog artifacts, guide visitors and much more.

There are six rooms in the John Hutchings Museum, namely:

The Fossil and Shell Room – Samplings of what the museum has to offer include dinosaur bones, coprolite, a molar and a piece from a Wooly Mammoth’s tusk. A wide variety of corals, shells, sea urchins and other South Sea artifacts can be seen here including native hunting and living amenities.

The Bird and Egg Room – This section offers one of the finest collections of bird eggs in Utah. There are trays and cases of more than 400 clutches of Utah County bird eggs while mounted specimens of birds and animals are also on active display in the collection.

Rock and Mineral Room – This area houses minerals which contains hundreds of specimens. Gems such as opals, garnets, topaz, tourmalines, sapphires, amethyst, turquoise, beryl, kunzite and Herkimer diamonds can be viewed here.

Wild West Room – Lehi was a place where violent murders, gambling dens and growing speakeasies happened. In 1930, the first ever jail was built in the town and was subsequently moved to its present location by the year 1957. The jail was in use until the early 1980s. People visiting John Hutchings Museum of Natural History can explore this interactive exhibit, being able to shut themselves away.

Native American Room – This area features spear points, arrows, flaking tools, hide scrapers, bead drills and knives of the Native American people. You can also find red and grass baskets including clay pots on display here.

Pioneer Room – Finally we have the Pioneer room where visitors can check out the primitive tools used by the adventurers and explorers many years ago. There are also log cabin homes here including service pieces and glassware that are on display. School slates, stoves, stage coach foot warmers and candle snuffers can also be expected. What makes this place even better is the display of firearms that were used by the Pioneers.


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Project to Watch: Why the New Utah State Prison Will Look Like a College

2017 - Correctional News:

SALT LAKE CITY — There’s a “term of art” that continues to emerge in corrections facility design circles — “human scale.” The concept was one of the guiding lights for the design of the new Utah State Prison, scheduled to debut in Salt Lake City
in 2020.

The college campus–like, 4,000-bed facility will be comprised of small units distributed over two floors, replete with windowed doors that open into a shared day room. The units will be aligned with natural light patterns made available by
large windows in a commons area for each bank of units. Locally based GSBS Architects worked with national architecture firm HOK and Miami-based CGL on the design of the project. The main design goal of the new Utah State Prison in
Salt Lake City is to focus on rehabilitation, normalizing day-to-day life for inmates. The approach echoes the tenets of Utah’s Justice Reinvestment Initiative, which launched in 2015 as a means of reducing inmate numbers and recidivism
by “normalizing” the incarceration environment. As a recent article in Utah’s Deseret News put it, the undertaking reflects a “radical theory” in prison design wherein “inmates who live in a normal environment adjust more quickly to normal
life upon release,” and it “begins with architecture.”


The main design goal of the new Utah State Prison in Salt Lake City is to focus on rehabilitation, normalizing day-to-day life for inmates.
Photo Credit: Conceptual Rendering by Prison Relocation Commission

Coupled with improved occupational and educational programs baked into the overall design, the Utah State Prison could be an exemplar of the future of prison design. The trend is, at least in part, precipitated by a couple of factors emerging
across the nation’s prison system.

“Two things are happening — the population is getting older in prisons and you’re dealing with more mental illness,” said Robert Glass, executive vice president and director of planning and design at CGL.

The firm put an emphasis on making “spaces smaller, a little more ‘open’ feeling.” Glass added, “Good colors, good natural light and things, seem to go a long way to help both those populations.”

The design decisions also benefit the staff who have to work with a population that’s shifting from what Glass termed “lighter-custody inmates” who are benefitting from states’ budget-driven early-release programs, to a remaining
population of “harder-custody inmates” that are better managed in “smaller unit subdivisions.”

“You try to reduce the numbers of people you’re dealing with,” said Glass. “The mental illness brings in the type of inmate that can be, day-to-day, a little hard to handle. The older inmates, who are getting some dementia, can also
be hard to handle, so it’s easier in smaller units to handle them.”

Glass added, “Half the battle with these facilities over the years is having staff have a real nice place to come to work. They’re ‘sentenced’ to eight hours a day there, everyday, too.”

Bringing more design-savvy features to the inmate experience also facilitates rehabilitation, said Glass, whose firm is seeing some of the fruits of their labor realized in a recently completed Southern California facility.

“One of the best ones right now is the Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility in San Diego,” said Glass, whose team was instrumental in its conception. “They’re doing a remarkable job with the re-entry programs there. That’s a
really open design; it has palm trees inside of it, grassy areas, all sorts of things. I think it’s actually doing two things — the inmates are more successful and I think the staff feels a lot better about working there.”

Throughout these projects, Glass said his firm endeavors to maintain a sense of proportion with the environmental needs of the inmates.

“Really, what we’re trying to do, is keep them low scale. In the mental health facilities, we’re trying to keep them all one level, not even an upper mezzanine level like so many facilities have,” said Glass, who emphasized that these are
normal-scale buildings similar to that of a housing development. “We’re also trying to get more space between them now so that there aren’t tight, narrow corridors or fenced walkways.”

Glass said that there has been little critical blowback for the contemporary design approach. He said that critics, if there are any, are usually more concerned with the cost of managing the inmates.

“The critical blowbacks are just on the cost to run these things nowadays. The cost to incarcerate the inmates is about the same as the cost to go to college now,” said Glass about the annual expenditures incurred by counties and states.
“That’s the push and the impetus now — to get these facilities working better so that people don’t return to prison.”



2018

Low Estimates for Utah State Prison Raises Questions in Press Conference
February 28, 2018 Correctional News CGL, gsbs-architects, HOK, Jim Russell, Utah State Prison

SALT LAKE CITY — State officials are facing scrutiny over a proposed correctional facility — the new Utah State Prison — due to shifting cost estimates. Lawmakers convened in a news conference in February to defend a revised estimate,
which has ballooned from an original figure of $550 million four years ago to $692 million today with intimations that the number could still grow.

A question that loomed throughout the news conference called by the Governor’s Office was whether or not officials intentionally low-balled their initial estimate to win the support of lawmakers. Apparently, an original $860 million estimate
was produced in 2016, subsequent to the state legislature voting to move the prison based on early Prison Relocation estimates that calculated construction costs between $547 million and $683 million. This did not, however, include the
price of the land or other preparations.

By the fall of 2016, however, the Division of Facilities and Construction Management (DFCM), “conducted an exhaustive line-by-line review of the program estimate and reduced it to $700 million,” according to a timeline released on the
state’s website. Using national benchmarks, according to the timeline, the Legislature’s original 2015, $550 million appropriation was intentionally set close to the lowest existing estimates in an attempt to ensure all parties worked in a
fiscally responsible manner and to prevent a creep in the scope of the project.

Jim Russell, who was appointed the director of the DFCM last March, also observed the unique elements of the prison — namely the sheer amount of inmates of varying classifications and genders to be housed in a campus-like, presently
3,600-bed, 130-acre facility — made estimating its costs via comparisons to other prisons difficult. “So there’s not an equal benchmark out there. That’s why estimates have been a little subjective and all over the place,” Russell said
according to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune.

Kristen Cox, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget, concurred with Russell and offered that actual costs would not be known until contracts are awarded. Portions of the project are slated to go out to bid by
this fall. That said, costs may still go up due to rising construction prices and inflation.

Utah State Prison Costs Could Still Grow
The timeline also states that the “DFCM anticipates possible appropriation requests in the 2019 general session. Decisions regarding site transition, fixtures, furniture and equipment may also affect final costs.”

Among the issues facing lawmakers is the fact that the prospective prison site is near the Salt Lake City International Airport, which had neither roads no utilities and brought an additional $154 million to the overall costs. Moreover, the
state’s Department of Corrections projects that 400 additional beds will be necessary come 2022, which would be a year after the Utah State Prison completion date. Naturally, expanding the prison to accommodate more inmates will likewise
add to costs and, ironically, be pricier than building a larger prison in the first place.

Salt Lake City-based GSBS Architects worked with national architecture firm HOK and Miami-based CGL on the design of the project, which is intended to be part of the state’s Criminal Justice Reinvestment Initiative to aid in inmate
rehabilitation.



Utah lawmakers eye budget surplus to fund new state prison — The Utah Legislature voted unanimously to allocate $235 million to the construction of a new state prison in Salt Lake City. Sen. Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton, says
lawmakers had already authorized up to $285 million in bonding for the prison relocation project. But new state revenue numbers released Monday show more than $1.3 billion in new state revenue will be available for the next legislative
session, thus, Stevenson says, allowing for a cash payment on construction in lieu of credit. The bill directs $67 million for the project in 2019 and $168 million in 2020. The new prison is estimated to cost $700 million.



2019


Utah State Prison Population Booming - BY KSL - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...-fastest-in-us - Utah's prison
population has grown faster than most states in the past few years, authorities said. The Utah Sentencing Commission saw a dramatic surge in prison population as new crimes and drug violations led to more convictions, KSL-TV reported .
Utah's prison population increased by 4.3% from the end of 2016 to the end of 2017, faster than every state except Idaho at 5.1%, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a report released in April. The average daily inmate population
continued to increase, adding 165 prisoners between August 2018 and July 2019, the Utah Department of Corrections said. "We're seeing more people returning to prison on technical violations and on new crimes that are non-violent petty
crimes, mainly drug use," said Marshall Thompson, Utah Sentencing Commission director. Because there are more inmates, Adult Probation and Parole has to handle larger caseloads, the television station reported. The target is 50 cases
per agent, but the average is currently 65 and has reached as high as 69, probation officers said. Despite the rise, state officials still attribute support to the Justice Reinvestment Initiative reform passed in 2015. "We would be in a full-on
crisis situation right now. We would need to be shipping people to out-of-state, for-profit prisons at a huge expense to the taxpayer, a huge burden to prosecutors, defense counsel, to victims, and to the offenders and their families,"
Thompson said. The prison population was expected to rise with increases to the state's general population, officials said.




By Megan Nelson - https://www.upr.org/post/new-utah-st...-set-open-2022
Five years ago, Utah lawmakers started breaking ground on a new prison facility for inmates currently housed in Draper. The prison facility was built in the early 1950s, outside of town. Now, and after decades of use, it has become
worn and surrounded by new development. Utah Senator Jerry Stevenson explained that with every year, the prison brings on new demands that are becoming harder and harder to accommodate. “It’s just something we have to do
you know," he said. "Facilities wear out, methods for taking care of these kind of things change and become better, and that’s the reasoning were making a move.” In the current prison, the inmates are lacking basic facilities to meet
their needs. Men and women are having to share medical services - sometimes meaning they don’t get their treatment when they need it. Counseling services are limited. And GED and other classes are having to be taught in the hallways.

Utah Senator Lyle Hillyard said that with the risings statistics of returning inmates, they’ve been looking for a change that can give inmates the resources they need to leave prison and not return.“We have a real problem in Utah with a
large number of inmates who are released from prison without adequate training and counseling and help who end up just coming back," Hillyard said. "So that really became the impetus to get something going.”

The prison will be located near the Salt Lake City International Airport and is set to open by June 2022.

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Northern Metro Resorts - Powder Mountain - This Collective is Building a Utopia for the Millenial

The Ogden Valley Planning Commission recently approved a 5-story property at Summit Powder Mountain Resort to include a 47-room Selina branded hotel and 52 condominium units. No renderings were included in the news article or the board meeting packet.

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In other action Tuesday, the planning commission approved the design review application for the proposed Powder Mountain hotel, to be developed by Greenline Capital as part of the Selina chain of hotels, hostels and co-working spaces. The five-story structure, sitting on about a half-acre of land, would house 47 hotel rooms and 52 condominium units and feature a “Scandinavian look,” according to Rory Murphy, presenting the proposal to the commission on Tuesday on behalf of Greenline and Powder Mountain.

He described it as a “destination hotel” that would be a “significant tax generator” for Weber County. The facility would create 51 jobs.

“Perhaps most importantly, it provides vitality and vibrancy to the entire resort area and really begins to anchor a village core that should be a significant economic development area for Weber County for years to come,” reads the application for the hotel. Boosters envision the hotel, the application continues, as “a source of community energy and a gathering space that helps to propel the Village and the mountain in general forward in a positive and fiscally responsible manner.”


-Ogden Standard Examiner



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Architectural Digest -
Powder Mountain Is the Hottest Design Destination You Probably Haven't Heard Of


This hidden gem of a ski resort in Utah is fast becoming a progressive alpine mecca

Architectural Digest - By Meaghan O'Neill - https://www.architecturaldigest.com/...owder-mountain

Just an hour north of Salt Lake City, Powder Mountain is a hidden gem among Utah's more famous ski resorts. At 10,000 acres, it's one of our nation's largest ski areas, and now the mountain's newest owners—a group of young tech entrepreneurs—have begun construction on a contemporary alpine village that's attracting big money and bold-face names (think Richard Branson and Tim Ferriss). With buildings by acclaimed architects like Marmol Radziner, Olson Kundig, and MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, the Summit Powder Mountain village promises sprawling views of the Great Salt Lake and a stunning organic modern aesthetic.

Die-hard skiers have been enjoying Powder Mountain's exceptional terrain for decades, but the new village, which is expected to be operational by 2022, aims to attract a year-round community of thought leaders—from artists and activists to scientists—who will rub elbows at yoga studios and juice bars in a Burning-Man-meets-Davos type of atmosphere. To help build this kind of place, designers are held to strict guidelines that aim to thwart overdevelopment. For example, houses must remain under 4,500 square feet (an additional 1,000 square feet of living space is allowed underground), prioritize natural materials, and be energy efficient. In all, 500 mountain homes will be built, clustered around a village center with restaurants, spas, a hotel, shops, and public art—all easily accessed by ski lift, hiking, and mountain biking trails.

“All of our design guidelines were developed to not disrupt the soil,” says Brian Williams, director of real estate for Powder Mountain. Approximately 2,600 acres were earmarked for development; of that, several will be granted to a local land trust as preserved space that will be open to the public.

“While the value of mountain homes typically relies solely on sheer scale, [we] are working to provide a new standard for the valuation of homes,” says Anne Mooney, principal architect at Sparano + Mooney Architecture, which has provided site analysis as well as a conceptual design for a net-zero energy lodge, no easy task in Utah's harsh winters. To create that kind of shift, Summit—and the people who will call it home—must place worth on quality, sustainability, and durability, says Mooney, whose firm has an office in Salt Lake City.


Twenty-six modern cabins, an event center, and a lodge will make up the Horizon neighborhood, which was designed by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Clad in cedar siding, the buildings are reminiscent of local barns. Rendering by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

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Central Metro East - Park City's New YOTELPAD

Bringing the Mountain to Modern:

The traditional mountain home is, well, stuck in tradition. Rough-hewn wooden walls, dark and heavy furnishings, cavernous rooms and probably a few dusty stuffed animals staring down in judgment at your Netflix choices. This is the tradition. It’s all so dark, stuffy, and gallingly inefficient.

The modern traveler wants modern convenience and values efficient, thoughtful, even conservative uses of space. When we go someplace like Park City, our lodging should be just right—the Goldilocks of spaces. We came here to ski, to dine, and to make memories with friends and family while we explore the mountains. Thankfully, designers, architects, and developers Berkshire Hathaway like are getting the hint and new projects like YOTELPAD Park City built around the way we actually travel and play and not some antiquated idea of how we should travel and play—with nary a dead animal on the wall.



The new YOTELPAD, the brainchild of Replay Destinations and Yotel, at the base of the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain puts the 7,300 Acres of the largest ski resort in the United States just outside your door. With 144 units ranging from studio to three bedrooms, the project was thought out to embrace smart design and maximize the square footage and all of it is fully wired with technology and intuitive services to help you focus on playing, not staying. And it’s affordable. YOTELPAD is hotel/condo concept that offers affordable full-ownership options (in the heart of a world-renowned ski resort), which puts luxury modern mountain living within range of the next generation.


Be Social

When not on the mountain and not asleep, it’s time for friends and family and to mingle with other guests. Friendly common areas offer plenty of room to spend time enjoying the time. The social spaces at YOTELPAD are designed to maximize view space of the surrounding mountains with comfortable seating, games for the kids, and food and drink. Gathering places feature soft seating placed around fireplaces. Soak up the sun, watch a movie, shoot pool, or join friends on the view terrace. Unwind by the pool or soak in the hot tub. Or relax with a drink by the fire before your next game of PAC-MAN. Designers at YOTELPAD configured every space to keep the schlepping (the bane of any ski trip) to a minimum. The valet parks your car, the ski valet takes your gear and you can settle in.


BE EFFICIENT

Every innovative inch of YOTELPAD was created with efficiency for both time and space. Each private PAD (as the rooms are called) and social zone was designed with serious thought into how the modern traveler can and wants live on the mountain. The PADs all feature clever Italian-made furniture that makes the room work hard for many functions (and keeps prices down). For example, the sofa conceals a pull-down wall bed and storage space. The workspace doubles as a kids’ table and then transforms for bedtime into bunkbeds


BE FUTURE FORWARD

Technology lets owners and guests get essentials done quickly and effortlessly. The entire property is linked up to the YOTELPAD app where you can do everything from extending your stay to requesting extra towels. Gary Raymond, the managing director of Replay Destinations, YOTELPAD Park City’s developer, believes that, “Technology, innovation, and design are converging to make smart resort homes affordable—and desirable—to a new generation.”


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Downtown Update - The Newly Completed Encore Apartments.


The six-story, 189-unit apartment building brings new residents to a growing section of Salt Lake. The project’s height adds
density to the 400 South transit corridor. The main entrance fronts the northwest corner of the 500 East and 400 South intersection.






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400 South and 400 East, from the southwest. Buildings from left to right and lining up along the LightRail corridor: Block 44, The Quattro, and Encore Apartments.
Immediately to the east and north of 400 S. is Emigration Court and The Essex. Further north is the MODA Bonnevile, near 300 South, upper center-left.



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South Salt Lake’s Housing Boom Driven by its Transit Lines


Salt Lake Tribune - 12/24/2019 - https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/12/...lakes-housing/

(Rendering courtesy of Newmark Knight Frank) South Salt Lake officials broke ground in October on South City, to be located on the site of the former
Granite Mill warehouse at 2200 South and Main Street. The project is part of a housing boom in the metro that will give South Salt Lake City its first downtown area.

By Tony Semerad
Railways helped turn South Salt Lake’s open fields of mid-20th century into “A City of Industry,” which is one of its nicknames. Trains brought people and businesses that fostered the first neighborhoods. Today, the rails that once shipped lumber, stone blocks, and other supplies are light rail and streetcar routes fueling a residential boom. Since 2015, elected leaders here have approved more than 2,800 new apartments, townhomes, and other dwellings — mostly located adjacent to TRAX lines and stations. For a built-out suburban city of roughly 25,000 residents spread over just under seven square miles, that’s a big number.


The new spate of apartments and townhomes was followed in October by a groundbreaking for a massive new development at the historic Granite Mill site near 2200 South and Main Street — a project that will give South Salt Lake a real shot at building its own downtown just down the street from Salt Lake City’s growing core.

“This is so clearly not the South Salt Lake I grew up in,” said Mayor Cherie Wood, a lifelong resident.

To be called South City, the seven-acre project’s first phase is a six-story, 150,000-square-foot office tower. Software firm PDQ.com and GBS Benefits, a Utah employee-benefits brokerage and consulting company, have signed leases to occupy the new building. The project has been launched after city leaders overhauled zoning rules in 2016 to encourage high-density developments along TRAX lines.

Subsequent phases in the $285 million project, according to investor-developer Dakota Pacific, will bring a 10-story apartment complex wrapped around an 800-stall parking garage, along with stores, more offices and a hotel. It ranks among the largest redevelopments underway in the Salt Lake Valley. Wood said that beyond transit and incentives spurring development, the city’s new growth is born of years of painstaking community building and efforts to shed South Salt Lake’s image as a bland, transient or unsafe place to live.

Likening it to a spoked wheel, the mayor said those efforts have involved more than a decade of trying to reduce crime rates, fortifying after-school and other youth programs, and “giving families a reason to stay and raise kids here.”

“I don't feel like we would have seen as much growth or as much positive change,” Wood said, “if we had not addressed every broken spoke in our wheel that we call community.” South Salt Lake’s upswing in housing and urban growth is also part of a new wave of Utah cities pursuing variations of the same notion: locating higher-density homebuilding — often apartment complexes or town home projects — next to mass transit stops and land around the rail corridors that link them.

Housing density remains controversial in many communities, sometimes pitting the concerns of existing residents against potential newcomers. But there is often more consensus, city and planning officials say, behind locating large housing projects near rail nodes, partly because it can lessen traffic problems.

Major housing projects and a host of smaller developments linked to Utah Transit Authority rail lines are now in progress across the Wasatch Front. In fact, there is now more interest from cities in partnering with UTA on such developments than the agency can handle under state law.

“It’s really astounding to see the amount of transit-oriented development that is happening via market forces and city planning,” said Cameron Diehl, executive director for Utah League of Cities and Towns. Officials at Envision Utah and other regional planning agencies have pushed the idea of high-density housing and retail development next to mass transit for years, not least as a land-use strategy to ease air pollution by reducing vehicle miles. The trend is gaining new momentum now from what officials say is a dire regional need for housing at all price points as Utah’s population mushrooms.

New neighborhoods
To a city eager for housing options, a newly built enclave called Hawthorne — located at about 2800 S. West Temple in South Salt Lake, along a UTA rail corridor — is a win on several fronts. It’s a gated community of 219 stacked flat-style apartments, for rent when townhomes are more often for sale. The two-story dwellings are between 1,300 and 2,000 square feet.

The housing project is spread over a 20-acre former industrial site, once home to the Buehner Block Co., purveyors of stone blocks. One top planner for South Salt Lake called Hawthorne “a great opportunity” to bring added housing density — Hawthorne is 15 units per acre — along a TRAX corridor, while also adding to the city’s network of open spaces.

“Large tracts of land rarely become available,” said Alexandra White, manager of the city’s Planning Division. “The project has been extremely successful.” Since city leaders made zoning changes around the S-Line, also known as the Sugarhouse Streetcar line, South Salt Lake’s old patterns of single-story construction have given way to more multistory projects, she said. Several housing developments, such as Hawthorne, have created entire new neighborhoods on what were once manufacturing and industrial sites.

‘On the move’
South Salt Lake’s new downtown development area is framed by stretches of Interstate 15, Interstate 80, State Street and 2100 South. By one estimate, more than a million vehicles move through the city on these arterials every day. The city center also has the valley’s only TRAX station — Central Pointe — that accommodates every rail line run by Utah Transit Authority, including the S-Line. “Developers are being drawn to this area because of the access and connectivity to the rest of the valley,” said White, the city planner.

Real estate brokers say heightened interest in South Salt Lake is also a function of rising demand among residential developers for available land within commuting distance to downtown Salt Lake City. “That’s part of why I’ve never left South Salt Lake,” Wood said. “I can get anywhere in 20 minutes, it feels like.” That easy access to other places is, ironically, part of what is driving development of South Salt Lake’s own distinct downtown center.

In its zoning plan for its downtown district adopted three years ago, the City Council converted a neighborhood previously focused on retail and manufacturing to one allowing high-density projects that combine buildings with a mix of different uses. The plan also created incentives for high-density development near the S-Line, with no caps on dwellings per acre or building heights in the downtown district, White said.

When a new WinCo Foods grocery store opened in the district the following year, city officials predicted the area would one day be filled with more than 2,500 new housing units, 1.5 million square feet of retail and office spaces, several parks and a recreational link to Parley’s Trail.

There are other signs that this vision is taking shape. Not far from South City there is a new cluster of breweries and distilleries that have sprung up in old warehouses, including Beehive Distilling, Level Crossing Brewery, Salt Fire and Shades of Pale. The city’s downtown rezone in 2016 and its approach to transit were key to Beehive Distilling’s decision to open in South Salt Lake, said co-owner and head distiller Chris Barlow. “They have a high push for a live-work, walkable center with an urban industrial feel,” Barlow said, “and that made it an area we were interested in.”


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S-Line streetcar in the greenway (~2250 South). Photo by Luke Garrott.


S-Line at Main Street, South Salt Lake. Photo by Luke Garrott.


Liberty Crossing townhomes, South Salt Lake. Winco grocery to the left. Photo by Luke Garrott.


Ritz Classic apartments from the air, looking east at State Street. Photo by Luke Garrott


Zeller apartments, looking southeast from 300 East and the S-Line. Photo by Luke Garrott.


S-Line looking east on a July Sunday afternoon. Photo by Luke Garrot


The Brixton, looking east at 600 East and the S-Line. Photo by Luke Garrott.


The Brixton, looking northwest at 700 East and the S-Line. Photo by Luke Garrott.


The Sugarmont apartments, from the southeast. Photo by Luke Garrott.


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Central Metro/East - Park City - Star Hotel Redevelopment


Jay Hamburger, for the Park Record - https://www.parkrecord.com/news/park...e-power-tools/


Rendering of redeveloped Star Hotel


March 2019 - A crew on Monday morning started to prepare an old, decrepit Main Street hotel to be torn down, the initial steps in what will be an extraordinarily rare takedown of a building on the shopping, dining and entertainment strip.

The workers, using power and manual tools, spent time on Monday tearing away the exterior layer of stucco on the Main Street side of the Star Hotel. The stucco came off quickly while the workers used brute force to dislodge cement. Stonework was revealed in one section of the building as the workers removed the exterior layer.


The operation had been expected for several months with there seeming to be at one point the possibility of the work starting prior to the Sundance Film Festival in January. The work was delayed until after Sundance and the heavy snows that struck in February. The contractor, Brassey & Company, said on Monday the full demolition of the building could start by the end of March.

The Park City Building Department is overseeing the work while the Park City Planning Department is monitoring the teardown to ensure the workers comply with plans to preserve historic materials that would be used as the property is redeveloped. The foundation, made of rock, will be preserved and incorporated into a development, as an example.

"It can pretty much come down," said Bruce Erickson, the planning director at City Hall.

Main Street will lose an old building as the Star Hotel is taken down, but City Hall officials determined the structure in unsafe. The Planning Department in early March indicated there was a potential of the roof collapsing inward under the weight of the snow and ice.

City Hall's Old Town panel, the Historic Preservation Board, and the Park City Board of Adjustment previously voted to maintain the Star Hotel's designation as a significant building as part of a municipal government-kept inventory of historic sites. Buildings with that designation cannot be torn down under most circumstances, but officials in the case of the Star Hotel agreed to allow the demolition based on the poor condition and the danger to the public.

The Star Hotel was incorporated into a small historic house decades ago. The project involves a redevelopment that includes a building that will appear to be a full restoration of the Star Hotel, the full restoration of the small historic house and a small addition.


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A crew on Monday morning started to prepare the Star Hotel for demolition, tearing away the exterior layer of stucco on the Main Street building. The full demolition of the building could start by the end of March. Tanzi Propst/Park Record




Deconstruction of the historic Star Hotel begins. The new building, replacing this structure, will be designed to replicate the historic hotel


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Downtown Update - 3 residential projects in west Gateway + Depot District continue Downtown building boom


Luke Garrott Reports - Building Salt Lake, June 20, 2019 - Full Article @ https://www.buildingsaltlake.com/3-r...building-boom/

Three modestly-sized residential developments in west Downtown – one under construction, one just approved, and another in preliminary stages – may portend the next wave of multi-family construction in this transitioning area.

With the imminent shuttering of the Road Home emergency shelter at 200 S. Rio Grande (450 West) and recent mega-developments along the park blocks on 500 West (Liberty Gateway and Alta Gateway), the neighborhood’s stigma seems ready to dissipate.


December 2019 - Central Station - Excavation work has begun

...As currently proposed, Central Station will provide 52 affordable units and 13 market-rate, details of which are yet to be determined. Gardiner Batt envisions a wide range of sizes, from studios to four-bedroom units.

The project will supply 34 parking stalls at ground level in its concrete podium, hidden from the street by common rooms for tenants and their leasing office. According to documents submitted to SLC Planning, the developers are committed to achieving both Enterprise Green Building Certification and an Energy Star rating...



Preliminary rendering of the Central Station mixed-income project in the Depot District. Image courtesy Architecture Belgique.


Central Station mixed-income residential site, at Thomas Electric Co., center (beige). Hong Kong Tea House is visible lower right. To the left is Artspace Bridge (green and red), with Artspace City Center and Macaroni Flats, center-left. SLC RDA owns the vacant lots, center-right, branded Station Center. Photo by Luke Garrott.

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Casa Milagros Senior Living

On the 100 South block of 600 West, the Casa Milagros Senior Living project at Centro Civico Mexicano is looking ready to be framed.


Casa Milagros Senior Housing project under construction, center left. Centro Civico Mexicano, center right. Alta Gateway apartments, center, in grey and white. Photo by Luke Garrott.



CW Urban's "The Beverly"

Up the street at 45 South 600 West, CW Urban received approval by the Planning Commission this month to move forward on a 48-unit, market-rate condominium project named The Beverly.

Four buildings, each four stories, will barely reach the minimum height required by Gateway-Mixed Use zoning (45 feet). Like all proposed projects in this zone, the developer had to submit to a Conditional Building Site Design Review process...



Rendering for The Beverly, at 45 South 600 West, looking east. Image courtesy SLC public documents.


Future site of The Beverly at 45 South 600 West, to replace the three beige-colored buildings lower center. Liberty Gateway Apartments left center (white). Photo by Luke Garrott.

...The city will require the builders to include public art and a mid-block walkway along the eastern edge of their property. Benches will be placed at the south end of the walkway as it terminates at 100 South, immediately east of Futsal 801. The north end of the walkway will terminate in Gateway’s western surface parking lot fence...



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Salt Lake City's Wasatch Front puts a headlock on high-tech bonafides in 2019


When the first of the report’s numbers surfaced last winter, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox was gobsmacked. “We know that the growth is happening and that it has been big,
but I don’t think I even realized how big it really is,” Cox said at the time. “Double the growth rate of our other industries, but double the growth rate across the country is a big deal.”


Art Raymond for the Deseret News


SALT LAKE CITY — You’d expect to see some pretty prodigious innovations coming out of a state that was one of just a handful at ground-zero when the internet was born.

Utah has more than held its own in the whizz-bang world of technology over recent decades, but 2019 may go down as the year the Beehive State put a permanent headlock on its high-tech bona fides.

It was also a year that saw some of the state’s most successful companies flexing their individual and collective might to help ensure that the successes of today are bolstered by a steady influx of students armed with the critical tech skills of tomorrow.


Data reflects economic juggernaut

Starting in February, the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute doled out results of an expansive, two-year study focused on the state’s technology sector. Even for those who may have been keeping a close eye on the evolution of Utah’s tech realm, the results from this first-of-its-kind analysis were remarkable.

Construction continues on Pluralsight’s new headquarters in Draper on Monday, July 29, 2019. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

The Gardner report highlight reel reflects a Utah tech sector that’s built an enormous and still-growing footprint while becoming the prime driver of the state’s economy.

As of the close of 2018, tech was responsible for 1 in 7 jobs in the state, directly and indirectly supporting over 310,000 Utah employees, contributing nearly $30 billion to the state’s gross domestic product (about 18% of total) while paying annual wages of nearly $88,000, almost double the annual average for all other industries.

Underlying data tracking job growth rates reflect that burgeoning Utah tech is not a bubble or anomaly, but rather a force that’s likely to drive an even bigger segment of the state’s economy going forward. That growth factor is outpacing other Utah industries, and the national tech employment rate by a 2-to-1 margin. According to the report, in terms of total employment and wages in the private sector, no state with an economy of Utah’s size had a larger tech industry as of 2018.

When the first of the report’s numbers surfaced last winter, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox was gobsmacked.

“We know that the growth is happening and that it has been big, but I don’t think I even realized how big it really is,” Cox said at the time. “Double the growth rate of our other industries, but double the growth rate across the country is a big deal.”


Let’s make a deal

While tech initial public offerings and megadeals were the hallmarks of 2018, the year that followed had more than its share of capital inflow and, notably, three jumbo venture rounds that helped boost operations for a new crop of Utah high-tech heavy hitters. Back in April and still a few months shy of its year-and-a-half anniversary, expense management innovator Divvy nailed down a whopping $200 million funding round.

The Lehi-based company continued a scorched-earth rampage, building its client list from zero to 3,000 in its first 18 months in business.

Divvy co-founder and CEO Blake Murray said that in spite of the company’s breathtaking growth rate, the new funding will accelerate ongoing product development with the goal of making Divvy an indispensable tool for expense finance professionals.

“We’re going to remain heavily indexed on product and engineering,” Murray said. “And continue to have a maniacal focus on who our buyer is, the CFO, the VP of finance, the comptroller … and responding to what they need in their day-to-day job.

“We want it all to roll through Divvy.”

Salt Lake biotech company Recursion Pharmaceuticals announced a $121 million funding last summer, pushing the 6-year-old startup’s total financing north of a quarter-billion dollars. And, financial data tech innovator MX Technologies clocked its own nine-figure deal in June. The company is helping provide the intelligence and operations capabilities behind the still-blossoming world of online and mobile banking.

“Fundamentally, we ingest mounds and mounds of data from different sources, then normalize and structure and enhance that data,” said MX chief customer officer Nate Gardner. “The end result is clean and clear information that shapes the customer’s digital experiences in mobile and online banking and financial services.”


Attitude, aptitude and altitude

A group of five Utah tech founders dropped a challenge on state leaders in the first month of 2019, offering to pony up $5 million in personal matching funds to get a statewide computer science curriculum off the ground. While state lawmakers failed to construct a funding proposal to leverage the opportunity — and left $2 million on the table — the gauntlet did lead to a Utah computer science master plan and, as the year moves toward its close, commitments from all 41 Utah school districts to get on board.

In December, Gov. Gary Herbert announced he would include in his upcoming budget $10 million in new funding for statewide computer science curriculum — currently available in less than half of the state’s public schools — and encouraged the Legislature to get his back on the proposal.West High School 10th grader Fikir Teklemedhin joined Herbert and others to announce the funding, and didn’t mince words when she shared her take on the importance of making computer science education widely available to Utah students.

“By failing to make computer science courses available in every public school, we’re depriving children not only of potential passion but of opportunities to thrive in any field they choose,” Teklemedhin said.


“We cannot overlook the future of this generation and hope they stumble upon success.”

Qualtrics co-founder and CEO Ryan Smith, one of the private contributors to the new statewide tech education effort, is also making moves internally to help boost the pipeline leading to tech-skill enabled future graduates.

In November, Smith and team revealed plans to double the size of their Utah County headquarters and, as part of the expansion, open a brand-new 40,000-square-foot day care facility that will focus on early science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.

Utah customer experience giant Qualtrics announced plans on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, to double its existing Provo headquarters and add an additional 1,000-plus jobs. The company has wider plans in place to more than double its global workforce to 8,000 in the next five years.
Utah customer experience giant Qualtrics announced plans on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, to double its existing Provo headquarters and add an additional 1,000-plus jobs. The company has wider plans in place to more than double its global workforce to 8,000 in the next five years. Qualtrics
The project represents a coda on a year of expansion that’s seen Qualtrics assume naming rights — and 275,000 square feet — of a new office tower in Seattle, as well as new facilities in Dublin, Ireland, and Chicago. The collection of new digs will help house a staff expansion that will add some 5,000 new employees to the current roster of 3,000 over the next four years.

Smith said Qualtrics is relocating some 200 new employees a year to Utah, and one of the first questions the company typically gets from the newbies is, “How are the schools and what is the environment for families?” That employee feedback, his own experiences as a father of four, and a built-in urge to disrupt and improve old ways of doing things led Smith inexorably toward Cloud Village.

“We own the building right across from our HQ and it has about 40,000 square feet of space,” Smith said. “We had this idea of ‘What if we turned it into the ultimate day care for working parents at Qualtrics?’ We thought that this could really change their lives and change the lives of their children if we do it right.

“We had a chance to design the space, pick the provider and design the curriculum. We were thinking, if you could build the MIT of day care, what would it look like?”

Utah customer experience giant Qualtrics announced plans on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, to double its existing Provo headquarters and add an additional 1,000-plus jobs.
The company has wider plans in place to more than double its global workforce to 8,000 in the next five years. Qualtrics


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Update, Downtown Sightings - The Birdie


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Isaac Riddle Reports @ https://www.buildingsaltlake.com/com...town-building/ The Birdie, will be six stories with 70 residential units. The Birdie will top out at just under 85 feet, 15 feet under the minimum height requirement of 100 feet for corner parcels in the D-1 (Central Business District) zoning district. The project will replace a surface parking lot on 0.34 acres.

Planning staff determined that the intent of the zoning requirements was to ensure that corner buildings have prominence at the intersection. Staff argued that The Birdie would have prominence based on its planned ground floor activation, large balconies and architectural relationship to the intersection’s two historic buildings, the Stratford Hotel (2nd and 2nd) building and First Methodist Episcopal Church.

“I feel like 2nd and 2nd is a really important corner,” said Jake Williams of CW Urban. “We really wanted to be inspired by the neighborhood. These buildings all have eclectic textures.”

Williams told the commission that CW Urban wanted The Birdie to compliment the mix of historic and contemporary buildings in the area. To do this, the project will have dark-framed windows that are common on this stretch of 200 South. The ground floor will also be visually different from the upper levels with a lighter shade of concrete to create a greater emphasis on the street level features and different building materials.



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Downtown Update - Salt Lake City homelessness leaders break ground on 65-unit housing complex

Effort focuses on transition out of shelters


By Katie McKellar for the Deseret News - https://www.deseret.com/utah/2019/12...ortive-housing

SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City is about to get 65 more units to help house some of the most vulnerable among the homeless. Leaders broke ground Monday on The Magnolia, a permanent supportive housing facility to serve up to 65 single men and women with on-site services to help them transition out of shelter and into housing...“We will soon have 65 units available for those most in need,” said Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski. “What is truly special is that these units, these spaces of opportunity, will not be on the margins of our city, but right here in the heart of our city, amongst a mixed income development, demonstrating that Salt Lake City is truly a place for everyone.”,,,“For the past four years, Salt Lake City housing experts have worked tirelessly to address the affordable housing crisis that we are facing, never losing sight of the idea that every unit we bring online represents a life that will forever be changed,” Biskupski said, crediting her staff with helping build over 2,500 affordable housing units during her administration.


Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski speaks at the groundbreaking for The Magnolia, a new 65-unit permanent supportive housing complex for people who have experienced
homelessness, in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. The facility, owned by Shelter the Homeless and operated by the Road Home, will serve single men and women. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News


The Magnolia — developed by Cowboy Partners, owned by Shelter the Homeless and operated by the Road Home — will be the Road Home’s newest addition to its housing program, which currently includes 201 units at Palmer Court, 32 units at the Wendell Apartments, and hundreds of other stand-alone supportive housing units and single-family dwellings throughout Salt Lake County.

The Magnolia was made possible through a variety of deals and funding sources, including a $1.5 million Salt Lake City Housing Trust Fund loan, a $12-a-year land lease from Salt Lake City, over $10.5 million in tax credit equity, $2 million from the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund, and $1.3 million from Zions Bank in short-term financing...

...What we know is that we need The Magnolia, and we need an even greater array of types of deeply affordable and supportive housing in order to see the success that we have to have in our newly launched homeless services system,” Flynn said.

The “overarching vision” of the new system and the new homeless resource centers is to ensure homelessness is “rare, brief and nonrecurring,” Flynn said, calling for continued commitment from state, local and federal leaders to invest in “all kinds of supportive housing,” including types that haven’t even been thought of yet.

“The Magnolia will help our community achieve these goals by providing refuge and relief to the men and women who have experienced long and chronic homelessness,” Flynn said. “Individuals who have been through incredible trauma in their lives, who are living with a disabling condition and are seeking housing with support they can access on-site.”...



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Downtown - Residential Infill Boom Continues

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I walked by there the other day and saw a development company banner up and thought something may be happening soon. That Makes The Birdie, The Exchange,
The Broadway, The Magnolia
and the nearly complete Quattro all going up in just a couple blocks of each other.

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The Morton is about 1/3 full and Moda Luxe appears to preparing the buildings for demo in the near future. Lots of infill in that area.

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I'm so excited for Downtown Salt Lake City and all of the thousands of new residents being added over these next few years. It's fantastic for downtown density's sake to have so many new feet on the ground.
I know what a huge difference it makes having witnessed the seemingly sudden transformation of downtown L.A. these past ten years. All of the new mid-rise and high-rise residential has transformed downtown Los Angeles from
partially dead at night and on weekends to incredibly vibrant and full of activity both days and evenings, especially on weekends.


The Birdie

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The Exchange

Rendering of the northeast corner of The Exchange. Image courtesy Salt Lake City.


Rendering of the southwest corner of The Exchange and People’s Way a city-owned private street. Image courtesy Salt Lake City.


The Broadway

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The Magnolia

Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski speaks at the groundbreaking for The Magnolia, a new 65-unit permanent supportive housing complex for people who have experienced
homelessness, in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. The facility, owned by Shelter the Homeless and operated by the Road Home, will serve single men and women. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News




The Quattro
Rendering of the Quattro as designed by IBI Group. Photo courtesy Salt Lake City public documents.




The Morton



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The Moda Lluxe

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Update, Sugar House District - Sugar House Costume Sign preserves the past amid rapid redevelopment



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune)

By Taylor Stevens - The Salt Lake Tribune - https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics...-costume-sign/

The old Salt Lake Costume sign is alight once again on the southeast corner of 1100 East and 1700 South in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood.

The knight on horseback is perched atop a new 19-unit apartment complex built from the bones of the costume shop that once sat there — a symbol of the past contrasted against a development that exemplifies the near-constant pace of recent redevelopment in this community.

For years, historic signs like this one were lost to neglect and removal, due to the unintended consequences of an old city ordinance that put significant restrictions on owners who wanted to move them to accommodate redevelopment, changing uses or even to make repairs.



(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Costume Co. sign, originally designed by Lloyd S. Coley in the '50s while working for Rainbow Neon Sign Co., lives on once more as Sergio Camacho, left, and Don Fitches help put it back home in its original location at 1700 S. 1100 East on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019, in what is now called the Salt Lake Costume Apartments.

“Once they came down, they couldn’t go back up,” said former Salt Lake City Councilwoman Lisa Adams, who began the process to update the sign ordinance during her time on the panel. “And no one thought about long term when that was written. No one was thinking, ‘Oh, this is stuff that we’ll want to be preserved.’”

Before the City Council updated its code in September 2018, business owners who needed to service but wanted to keep their historic signs had to take sometimes drastic measures to comply with the code.

The spinning Granite Furniture sign on 2100 South, famed for its spiky “Sputnik” on top, for example, was once mended in midair at a cost of around $30,000, said Mark Isaac, who was then the project manager for Boulder Ventures’ redevelopment of the properties.

“We actually got a lane closure permit and a plaza permit and YESCO signs had to bring boom trucks out and do all the work from a boom truck on the building,” said Isaac, now a principal with Pinyon 8 Consulting. “We felt that that sign was such a placemaker for the building and for the history of the area that we were willing to pay extra to have it refabricated.”

The Salt Lake Costume sign was one of the first tests of the city’s new vintage sign ordinance, which provides a pathway for property owners to save signs that meet certain characteristics and allows them to be restored or recreated and reinstalled at their original sites or even at new ones.

In determining whether a sign should be saved, the city considers whether it bears a unique emblem, logo or another graphic specific to the city or region; whether it is characteristic of a specific historic period; and whether it retains or will reestablish the original design character of the sign. Billboards are not eligible for vintage sign designation.

Isaac, who continues to work on projects in the Sugar House area, called it an “excellent code change.”

“I can’t think of one negative thing about it,” he said. “We were losing some of this old creative signage and character and it’s only because of a sign ordinance that really didn’t make sense.”

The amended ordinance is also a win for the Sugar House Community Council, which became involved in advocating for updates after learning that the Sputnik sign may be in danger of being taken down.

Laurie Bray, a member of the Sugar House Community Council who serves on the Historic Sign Committee and has owned a photography business in the area since 2006, said the vintage signs are worth saving as works of art that reflect the history of the Sugar House Business District.
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