Salt Lake:Official development news thread

[urbanboy]

Originally Posted by SLC Projects

I should of draw the towers at Sandy even taller just to piss you off. JK

As if "JK" erases it? That's like saying: "Did you get a haircut? I hope you didn't pay for that thing... I'm just kidding." "You must not know how to kid properly then, because we should both be laughing."
-Ellen

[UTPlanner]

Delts145, these Midtown Developers are certainly struggling. I had a meeting with some local planners yesterday. I spoke with the Community Development Director for Clearfield. The developers claim that their struggles in Orem will have no impact on their Ogden or Clearfield developments, and yet they have pushed off their groundbreaking again, and again. I agree that their Ogden design is actually attractive and has a very urban feel to it, but what they have been doing is trolling from city to city. They present these great plans, and then start asking for funding or they'll pull the project and go to a neighboring municipality.

I'm all about economic development but there has to be obvious limits.

[Future Mayor]

Originally Posted by SLC Projects

Those towers in Sandy were a guess. But those towers are not any taller then salt lake's. I should of draw the towers at Sandy even taller just to piss you off. JK

I'm laughing Projects. I thought it was funny.

[urbanboy]

I did think it was funny projects, I was just being cheeky back atcha.

[SLC Projects]

It's all good guys. I know you were just kidding around. I thought what Viperlord did with the adding of Godzilla destroying the RSL stadium was funny. LOL

[delts145]

Originally Posted by UTPlanner

Delts145, these Midtown Developers are certainly struggling. I had a meeting with some local planners yesterday. I spoke with the Community Development Director for Clearfield. The developers claim that their struggles in Orem will have no impact on their Ogden or Clearfield developments, and yet they have pushed off their groundbreaking again, and again. I agree that their Ogden design is actually attractive and has a very urban feel to it, but what they have been doing is trolling from city to city. They present these great plans, and then start asking for funding or they'll pull the project and go to a neighboring municipality.

I'm all about economic development but there has to be obvious limits.

Very interesting UtPlanner. Has anyone done a 'due diligence' on these Midtown people? I would be curious to know what their project history is. What projects have they successfully accomplished up to this point?

[urbanboy]

This is what I would like to see happen :

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The Recording Studio could primarily be a Music School. Perhaps a U of U, Community College, or Juliard extension, or just privately owned.

[delts145]

I like that Urbanboy...very nice. I especially like what you've done over on West Temple with the theatres.

[Orlando]

Very nice Urban Boy I think it works well!

[Viperlord]

Metro Park West update in e-mail today....

Construction is scheduled to begin mid June. At this time we are in theprocess of setting square footage and pricing for each unit, as well asputting together a few renderings to send to our buyers. I will beproviding that information shortly, please look forward to receiving it.



btw, urbanboy, you are missing a large 1,000+ convention center hotel as part of the arts district. Its prime location.

[Viperlord]

I know its older, but here ya go,from Oct. 2007 with some details..

Boise hotel developer to construct 5-6 story hotel in downtown Salt Lake

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5279/is_200710/ai_n21267121

A 125-room AmeriTel Inn is being proposed on about five acres between 300 West and 400 West and 600 South.

The other AmeriTel Inn locations are mainly in Idaho, with one each in Washington and Oregon. The Salt Lake City AmeriTel Inn Will be at least a five-story hotel that will include a 4-hour indoor pool and fitness center free hot breakfast, highspeed wired and wireless connectivity and 3,500 square feet of conference rooms. Abelman said the final designs are still being drawn and the facility could increase in size to six stories and 135 rooms.

The property is currently being subdivided to accommodate the hotel, a restaurant and either a second hotel or an office/retail facility.

"If everything goes right, we're hoping to have a building permit by next summer," he said.



What is it with these developers coming in and building these small hotels. And on top of that, they build 2 together. This developer, and now the summit group developer by the intermodal hub.

While I welcome the redevelopment and the increased number of hotel rooms in the DT area, I think its robbing an idea for a larger hotel somewhere in DT.

[urbanboy]

Originally Posted by Viperlord

btw, urbanboy, you are missing a large 1,000+ convention center hotel as part of the arts district. Its prime location.

How about on the mixed use site with, retail at street level?
Or, on the block to the west, the one with the Royal Wood Plaza on it? That building needs to go!

[Viperlord]

Huntsman to double size of cancer hospital
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8468436
The hospital will double its beds from 50 to 100, as well as double its imaging and radiation treatment facilities and operating rooms.
The six-story, 120,000-square-foot hospital wing is tagged at $110 million and will be paid for with a combination of bonds and some $30
million in philanthropic funds, said Huntsman Cancer Foundation president and CEO Janet Bingham.

I always love expansion up at the University. This is a great project as well. Having state of the art medical instate can be a huge boost


keep the money rollin'. I love all this investment in the Downtown SLC area and economy.

[SLC Projects]

Originally Posted by Viperlord

Huntsman to double size of cancer hospital
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8468436
The hospital will double its beds from 50 to 100, as well as double its imaging and radiation treatment facilities and operating rooms.
The six-story, 120,000-square-foot hospital wing is tagged at $110 million and will be paid for with a combination of bonds and some $30
million in philanthropic funds, said Huntsman Cancer Foundation president and CEO Janet Bingham.

I always love expansion up at the University. This is a great project as well. Having state of the art medical instate can be a huge boost


keep the money rollin'. I love all this investment in the Downtown SLC area and economy.

Wow, that cancer hospital has only been open for a few years and already they are talking about an expansion. Didn't the hospital open in 2003 0r 2004?

[delts145]

SunCrest fails to meet loan obligations

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695259163,00.html

The developer has been plagued by problems inherent to building on steep slopes, and has also faced litigation from surrounding property owners and threats of court action over what residents have said is shoddy road construction.
The development has not provided any information about its financial troubles to the city or its residents, said Colbert, a resident of the development.


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[Future Mayor]

Originally Posted by urbanboy

How about on the mixed use site with, retail at street level?
Or, on the block to the west, the one with the Royal Wood Plaza on it? That building needs to go!

The mixed use site would work, but I don't think Block to the west would be very ideal, it's not close enough to a major entrance. I like the idea of having the convention hotel in the heart of the theater district.

You could always encorporate the hotel with the Theater on West Temple and the former DV8 space and the building next to the former DV8(former X-96 space). You could have the DV8/X-96 space be the lobby and build the hotel above the theater.

I do have to say I like the idea of the large broadway style theater being in the Utah/Pantages. There is just something about attending a large production in a historic restored theater. You could keep the black box and music and encorporate a film center in the mixed use area around the Zions bank, or into the Dinwoody building which is adjacent to the "mixed use" in Urbanboys drawing.

[urbanboy]

I like the idea of the Utah/Pantages being the Broadway-style Theater as well. However, one of my concerns about that is the uncertainty of what the touring Broadway shows would prefer. Even if it is refurbished and restored, will Broadway shows pass it over for a newer venue, say in Sandy? One that has 2,500 comfortable roomy seats? Or will they not mind how crammed the seats will likely be if that many seats were squeezed into the Utah/Pantages? This is my concern.

Could this then be an opportunity for infill? I think this block needs it. I would prefer the Utah/Pantages be restored to its former glory serving as a film center, but with only one screening room: the auditorium, instead of two: the auditorium split in half horizontally. It could share in the Egyptian Theater's (Park City) role of screening Sundance's feature films. It could also work and correlate with the Broadway Movie Theater on 300 South.

[SLC Projects]

I'm just not sure if turning the Utah/Pantages theater into a 2,500 Broadway-style Theater would work. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the city wants to restore the old building. But I just think the building is just too small to squeezed 2,500 seat in it. The building was first design to only hold 1,500 seats. I don't see how they could add another 1,000 seats or so. How would that be comfortable? You would have no leg room and no room to get up and walk around. I kind of like Urbanboy's idea that the Broadway-style Theater should be a new venue maybe on West Temple. It would be the best of both worlds. You would have a new venue as the Broadway-style Theater and a restore Utah theater that could be used for smaller events.

[RC14]

Urbanboy,
I like your idea for the arts district, but I would also like to see a new tallest building on this site, we need it to brake up the "islands" look.
Although maybe you had that in mind for the mixed use site?

[Scraperdude801]

Originally Posted by RC14

Urbanboy,
I like your idea for the arts district, but I would also like to see a new tallest building on this site, we need it to brake up the "islands" look.
Although maybe you had that in mind for the mixed use site?

very much agreed. this block needs 2 tallest imho to really make the skyline look like it is connected with southern downtown.