Salt Lake MSA Development Thread

[Future Mayor]

Thank you for the clarification. The article says that both Draper and S. Jordan locations are LEED Gold. I think my comments still apply to the S. Jordan and the Draper locations, I would hope the data center is close to Trax.

Now that companies are starting to be more responsible in their buildings I think the LEED Certifications need to place commuting as a higher percentage of their rankings. I know it is currently a piece of the puzzle, but it needs to be a larger piece of the rating system.

EBay could have very easily have built a much smaller parking lot at their new Draper location and charge employees to park in it. The 100's of thousand of dollars they would have saved in building a much smaller parking lot, they could have provided yearly Front Runner passes to their employees, and I'm sure with buying 100's of those they would even get a price break from UTA. I applaud EBay's efforts in the buildings, but I think they could have easily done more to make themselves more green without it costing them more money.