Salt Lake:Official development news thread

[Makid]

^^^^^ I think that spot would be perfect for a nice big, tall, convention hotel. Close to the arts, shopping, transit and of course the convention center. If there is one spot that screams build a large hotel here. That would be the place.

[Comrade]

Originally Posted by Makid

^^^^^ I think that spot would be perfect for a nice big, tall, convention hotel. Close to the arts, shopping, transit and of course the convention center. If there is one spot that screams build a large hotel here. That would be the place.

Nope. I think losing Arrow Press Square would be a travesty and hope that whomever owns it develops it back into one of Utah's most vibrant areas. While I would love the idea of a hotel around that area, I just can't imagine downtown SLC without that nice little square. It was a perfect little park with great entertainment options and I don't want SLC to lose that.

Build the hotel on the site of the current ExpoMart, which is just west of the Salt Palace.



But please, keep Arrow Press Square!

[SLC fan]

Agreed, Comrade Reynolds. Arrow Press Square has the potential (as it once was) to be an ecclectic retail/entertainment destination....just the kind of place to lure people downtown. New developments are nice (i.e. Gateway, City Creek, etc.), but it's also nice when you have fun spots that grow and evolve on their own.

With everything that is happening in that part of downtown it is difficult to guess what will happen to places like Arrow Press Square. Will there still be a draw once City Creek is completed? Hard to say, but it would be a definate loss if it's all torn down and replaced with something else.

[SLC Projects]

I never been to "Arrow Press Square" What is it? Shops?

[alphawolf]

photos please

[DevdogAZ]

Isn't one of the "Iguana" Mexican restaurants (either Blue or Red, not sure which) right there near that square? I seem to recall you walk down some stairs into the restaurant, and there's a little patch of grass, maybe 50' square in front of it. Is that what we're talking about?

[gbb]

Originally Posted by Comrade Reynolds

Nope. I think losing Arrow Press Square would be a travesty and hope that whomever owns it develops it back into one of Utah's most vibrant areas. While I would love the idea of a hotel around that area, I just can't imagine downtown SLC without that nice little square. It was a perfect little park with great entertainment options and I don't want SLC to lose that.

Build the hotel on the site of the current ExpoMart, which is just west of the Salt Palace.



But please, keep Arrow Press Square!

Agreed. The ExpoMart would be an easy building to lose and never remember.

[kpexpress]

WTC or not, I think that a building looking sort of like Norman Foster's 200 Greenwich Street in NY would look cool on the corner of 200 South and State right in place of Carls JR.




Excuse the rest of the buildings in the model, its just me messing around with SLC.

[kpexpress]

Right here......

[Scraperdude801]

Hey, What's up everybody? This is my first time posting. I've been checking out this forum on and off for about a month now, and was wondering if there were any projects I didn't know of. Below is a list of all the project I know of happening in SLC or that are exceptionally cool and are happening in the state. Please correct me where I am wrong. Thanks.


1.5 towers for city creek center. 2 of them 10 stories. One of them 12. One 26, and one 32, and the possible 17 story tower on 200 East and 100 South.
2. vestage tower about 10 stories. Undisclosed location.
3. 222 s. main tower- 21 Stories (hopefully)
4. world trade center tower - guesstimate of 33 stories. 700k SQ. Feet.
5. wasatch properties tower on 400 south and state street. 33 stories.
6. new court house complex 10 story tower
7. proposed cowboy partners half office, half residential tower. Suppossed to be tall.
8. 9 story parking garage to replace one on Social Hall Avenue for Harmons
9. 2 more 8 story office towers at gateway
10. 8 story metro condo's
11. allen millo park west 8 story condos
12. Conversion of Decker Patrick Dry Goods to Condos.
13. proposed real salt lake stadium in sandy. possible fairground location.
14. rumor of W hotel by delta center.
15. Arts district for Salt Lake City along 200 and 300 South West of Main.
16. Rennovation and revamping of Pioneer Park
17. The Marmalade in the marmalade district.
18. Downtown Circulator train.
19. Trax expansion to intermodal hub
20. possible lightrail to airport
21. new "Wicked" roller coaster at lagoon
22. commuter from Ogden to Salt Lake finished in 2008
23. Double size gateway development in Farmington across from Lagoon.
24. Frank Gehry to design Lifestyle center w/ Fake Lake designed for wakeboarding. 5 star hotel that will be states tallest building. and other residential towers and neighborhood.
25. Pleasant grove getting 13 story hotel, and 10 story hotel.
26.Talks of bringing City Creek above ground.
27.South Fork City creek replication at the city creek center project
28.Harmons grocery store to go in at 100 south social all avenue w/ condos on top.
29.proposed Market station development of Boston type browntstones. some buildings being 11 stories at 2100 south trax station.
30. Sugarhouse trolley to extend from 1100 east and 2100 south to trax at 2nd west and 2100 south.
31.The Leonardo at Library Sqaure. One of a kind type arts and interactive learning center wiht time sqaure type banners on outside.
32.Rennovation of Walker center to class A office space.
33.Boston building to become condominiums.
34.Possible rennovation of Galivan center.
35.Possible addition on Marriot downtown (west temple) addition of 500 rooms.
36.New 5 story LDS History library behind temple sqaure on North Temple.
37.Residential tower at trolley sqaure ontop of there Parking Garages. 260 + units.
38. Gateway Tower 5. 5 Stories.
39. Gateway looking to build Hotel.

[wrendog]

dang scraperdude! you got it all! and welcome to the forum.. it will become an addiction..

my only question on your list is the 17 story tower on 200 E and 100 S.. what is that all about?

[SLC Projects]

Originally Posted by wrendog

dang scraperdude! you got it all! and welcome to the forum.. it will become an addiction..

my only question on your list is the 17 story tower on 200 E and 100 S.. what is that all about?

That 17-story building is that smaller building on the East side of the Harmons grocery store on 100 south and 200 east. ( look at the City creek center map of all the builidngs )

[SLC Projects]

Wow scraperdude has done his homework. Welcome to the forum. To have a list of 39 projects just shows just how much is going on right now in salt lake and other areas.

This is a great time to be a building nerd.

[SLC Projects]

oh there is one more we can add to that list...


"The Cachet Towers" in Murray.

Tower 1...........18 stories
Tower 2...........15-stories
Tower 3...........12 stories

All three towers will be office space for what I understand and should be build near the IHC campus in Murray.

Here's the link.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/li/?id=106795&bt=2&ht=2&sro=1

[Viperlord]

your number 2 on your list should be the "vantage tower" and it is 12 stories.

Also, what about the broadway park lofts 8 stories.
The 567 lofts 6 stories.
There are a lot of other smaller 4-5 story developments underway all over the downtown region.

Btw, welcome to the board. Hope you enjoy the visits.

[jedikermit]

KPExpress -- ANYTHING would be welcome in place of that !#$!@#$ Carls Jr. and the surrounding parking lot. Surface parking downtown just kills me.

And Scraperdude, nice summary of what's goin' down. Liked the description of Gehry's "Fake Lake."

[strippadam]

Hold on. When we are talking about the so called 17 story tower on 200 east and 100 south i am recalling more of the conversations that my home owner associate "The Belvedere 29 S State" who is in the middle of all of the City Creek project has had with the church. The tower on 200 east and 100 south i don't believe is that tall however our discussion is that that tower would be owned by Cowboys partners who is putting in apartments as cowboy partners has with everything they have built and own. Then you have the harmons in the middle of the block and an office/commercial/residential tower on the corner of state street and 100 south. I am simply trying to clarify information before we get way out of hand and jump infront of ourselves only to end up disappointed.

[i-215]

Originally Posted by kpexpress

WTC or not, I think that a building looking sort of like Norman Foster's 200 Greenwich Street in NY would look cool on the corner of 200 South and State right in place of Carls JR.

I thought we'd already been over this ... the Carl's Jr. has to stay! It's an historic ediface representing late-1990's architecture.

[Scraperdude801]

thanks for the welcome everybody, and for the corrections Viperlord and Strippadam.

SLC Projects, those towers are tall for Murray, it makes me mad downtown isn't getting them with the rate our class A vacancy is at. We keep losing to the burbs.Towers of that size would look great along West Temple (although I wish West Temple would be tall like Main and State)200 E., 300 E. , 200 W. or 300 W. Downtown. bummer. Good for Murray though. Is that Medical building the Tower you can see from the freeway by the Costco?

[jedikermit]

Originally Posted by Scraperdude801

Is that Medical building the Tower you can see from the freeway by the Costco?

Yup.