Salt Lake:Official development news thread

[delts145]

Metro - Park City

Builders obliterate the old record deck: A huge October pushes industry above $200 million for the year


http://www.parkrecord.com/city/ci_7452624


A crane marks the place where a St. Regis hotel is under construction in Deer Crest, a construction project that helped propel the year-to-date building numbers past $200 million. Sarah Ause/Park Record

Park City's blistering construction industry, already basking in record-setting numbers, posted epic figures in October, pushing the totals in 2007 to well over $200 million...


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[Orlando]

Originally Posted by Viperlord

I dug this up a few months ago...

Its a list of a contractor and their accomplishments, and current projects...

Where are these projects: urban chocolate, etc.?

and who is the contractor?

[Viperlord]

urban chocolate is down in the Franklin covey field area on main street.



I cant remember who the contractor was.... sorry.

[delts145]

^^^
Hmmm, I like that a lot I think.

[delts145]

METRO - HEBER

Red Ledges taking shape


Red Ledges

Red Ledges

Red Ledges

The Two Developers,

M. Anthony Burns
Retired Chairman, President and CEO of Ryder System, Inc. He presently serves on the following Boards: Pfizer Inc., Black & Decker, and J.C. Penney Company, Inc. He was also formerly a Board Member of J. P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Nolan D. Archibald
Current Chairman, President and CEO of Black and Decker and serves on the following Boards: Black & Decker, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Huntsman Corporation, and Brunswick Corporation. He also was formerly a Board Member of ITT.


Most recent press releases,

October 29 , 2007: Utah Development Records $33 Million at Inaugural Sales Event
http://www.redledgesinfo.com/PR-61-Homesites-Sold-10-29-2007.html

October 14 , 2007: Deseret News: Still Ryding High-On Old Heber Ranch
http://www.redledgesinfo.com/PR-Deseret-News-10-14-2007.html

October 12 , 2007: Deseret News: Tennis Great Drysdale Will Make a Visit to
Heber's Red Ledges
http://www.redledgesinfo.com/PR-Deseret-News-10-12-2007.html

September 5, 2007: Red Ledges Partners with Cliff Drysdale for Drysdale's First Tennis Academy in Utah
http://www.redledgesinfo.com/PR-090507.htm

August 16, 2007: Troon Golf Appointed to Manage Red Ledges Golf Club
http://www.redledgesinfo.com/PR-081607.htm

June 19 , 2007: Deseret News Feature: Done playing, Golden Bear still working
http://www.redledgesinfo.com/PR-6-07-SaltLkTrib.html

June 19, 2007: Salt Lake Tribune Feature: Red Ledges taps Nicklaus
http://www.redledgesinfo.com/PR-6-07-SaltLkTrib.html

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[Orlando]

Provo to announce development today
PROVO — Mayor Lewis Billings will hold a press conference today to make what he called "the most significant economic development announcement ever in the history of Provo."
The press conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. at the Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center.

One source called the announcement the city's biggest since the Provo Towne Centre mall.



http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695227851,00.html


Any speculations as to what this might be anyone??????????!!!!!!!

[Wasatch_One]

Orlando,

we've been discussing it in the Provo development thread.

Our guess is some kind of downtown mixed-use project... CCC or Gateway-esque.... but obviously on a smaller scale.

[TimeSaltlake]

I still dont understand why Provo/Orem are not part of the Salt Lake/ Ogden metro. It is just one big Metro.

[Orlando]

Originally Posted by Wasatch_One

Orlando,

we've been discussing it in the Provo development thread.

Our guess is some kind of downtown mixed-use project... CCC or Gateway-esque.... but obviously on a smaller scale.

My bad. Can't wait! I hope it is something to do with downtown.

[Wasatch_One]

Originally Posted by TimeSaltlake

I still dont understand why Provo/Orem are not part of the Salt Lake/ Ogden metro. It is just one big Metro.

It will be, if not this coming 2010 census, then the next... It has to do with continuous urban "blocks" of development and people traveling from one metro into another (i.e. people living in Utah county traveling into SL County for work, shopping etc.)

With the current growth explosion in southern SL County and northern Utah County, its just a matter of time before both metros meet that requirement to be consolidated.

[delts145]

^^^
Are you sure bud, because look at Ogden, which use to be officially part of the Salt Lake metro team. They went and made Ogden/Clearfield its own metro, and put Tooele/Salt Lake/Summit together as the new Salt Lake Metro.

[SLC Projects]

Tooele/Salt Lake/Summit as the same metro? That just doesn't seem right. It should be Ogden/Salt Lake/Provo as one. Tooele is way out on it's own.

[Future Mayor]

They do metros based on a minimum core city population base and the surrounding conjoined counties fall into the MSA apparently Provo/Orem is a large enough base to be it's own and I'm guessing that Juab county is included in that MSA. The same must be true for Ogden/Clearfield.

Here's an interesting one. Kanab is in the Flagstaff MSA because it is the neighboring county. So they don't always make sense, they apparently don't look at minor barriers such as mile deep canyons in the ground.

Tooele makes sense as part of SL MSA. While Ogden and Provo would be nice to have in the MSA I like the fact that we have big enough cities to have five MSA's in the state. Although four of the five are within a two hour drive.

[delts145]

SLCProjects,quote:
Tooele/Salt Lake/Summit as the same metro? That just doesn't seem right. It should be Ogden/Salt Lake/Provo as one. Tooele is way out on it's own.


I know, but that is the official population/metro/tally now. Go figure!?!?

[5280]

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[Wasatch_One]

Originally Posted by delts145

SLCProjects,quote:
Tooele/Salt Lake/Summit as the same metro? That just doesn't seem right. It should be Ogden/Salt Lake/Provo as one. Tooele is way out on it's own.


I know, but that is the official population/metro/tally now. Go figure!?!?

Again, it has to do with people commuting from one area to another. I would imagine that half of the people in Tooele and Park City drive the 20 or so minutes down into the Salt Lake Valley for work. For that reason, they are an integral part of the metro.

[TimeSaltlake]

I guess the more metros the better. Today I realize that 13th south is the best street to live close to. I-15 starts to slow down due to traffic south bound, right after 13th and as well north bound.

Is the Urban Chocolate illustrated above an actual rendering? And if on Main, do we know what south? I like the looks of that.

[delts145]

Latest Stat's in for Utah/July 2006 - July 2007

Utah adds 10 people per hour / Much of the year's record growth was in Utah and S.L. counties

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695228186,00.html

Much of that growth was in Utah County and Salt Lake County, which both surpassed population benchmarks. Utah County's population now totals more trhan 500,000 and Salt Lake County's is more than 1 million.

Population surge state's biggest yet
Job market lures newcomers to the state; high number of babies born


http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7478889


Population boom: Record growth in Utah

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/244004/

After working for two years at an investment bank in New York, Hannah Huegel was ready to trade Manhattan for the mountains.
She chose Utah, joining tens of thousands of others from across the country who contributed to the largest population increase in state history.


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[delts145]

Class A job: Salt Lake's new walker Center just like old - except better

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695228092,00.html

Walker Center returns to its roots


http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_7477203


American West Bancorporation


Bob Daugherty, president and CEO of Far West Bank, speaks at the opening of a branch in the Walker Center


Randall Gaston, senior vice president of commercial banking for Far West Bank, shows the original 1912 vault, including its 5,000-pound door, on Thursday, (Laura Seitz, Deseret Morning News)

When it was originally built, the Walker Center had just one bathroom on each floor - all men's rooms, of course, as usually only men worked outsied the home in 1911.


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[Sight-Seer]

Somehow I got the idea they were going to return the tower to the top of the Walker Center. It isn't shown in the picture.