Salt Lake MSA Development Thread - Page 58

Future Mayor · #**1141** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 8:14 PM**

I assume you are referring to Chadders? While I've never been there, I think I will make an effort to go there every now and then.

T-Mac · #**1142** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 3:56 AM**

100-unit gated apartment project to rise in South Salt Lake

By Frances Johnson
The Enterprise

Brickstone Apartments, a four-building, 100-unit, gated apartment complex, has received approval to begin construction at 220 E. 3300 S. in South Salt Lake. The first building should be under way by this summer, with units available for rent starting in early 2010.

The development will include three-bedroom, two-bedroom and one-bedroom units ranging in size from 730 to 1,350 square feet, said Ben Massimino, managing member of Brickstone Apartments on 3300 LLC.

Amenities in the apartments will include raised panel European hinge cabinets, satin nickel fixtures and pantries with shelves in each kitchen, wood vinyl floors throughout and chandeliers in each dining room. Each unit also will come with a full-size washer and dryer, Massimino said. All bathroom counters will have a granite finish, with oversized tubs in each of the master bathrooms. Each master bedroom also will have a walk-in closet and each unit will equipped with connections for digital TV and phone and high-speed internet.

The community will include 100 covered parking stalls and 60 additional garage spaces, as well as storage units for each apartment. The development will be landscaped like a park, Massimino said, with jogging paths and a kid's playground. Other public amenities will include a clubhouse with a fitness and weight room, fireplace, restrooms with showers, a pool and sports court with facilities for basketball, volleyball and shuffleboard.

The apartment buildings are being designed by Benjamin Baird of Blackbox, LC, Salt Lake City, while the contractor on the project is Cracar Construction, also of Salt Lake City.

Good value for money -- rents in the community range from $750 to $1,300 a month -- should draw people to the project, Massimino said. A convenient location on a UTA bus line and just a few blocks from a TRAX stop, should also attract the target demographic of 18 to 35 year-olds, even in an economic time when credit and money are tight.

"With multi-family house there's always opportunity in good and bad markets. People are always looking for good housing and good value," Massimino said. "I think people are really going to enjoy living there."

cololi · #**1143** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 4:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by T-Mac

100-unit gated apartment project to rise in South Salt Lake

By Frances Johnson
The Enterprise

Brickstone Apartments, a four-building, 100-unit, gated apartment complex, has received approval to begin construction at 220 E. 3300 S. in South Salt Lake.

Interesting location. they will get zero benefit from light rail, way too far away even with a bus line. This thing needs to be located 3 blocks to the west. It is a positive sign economy wise though.

jedikermit · #**1144** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 1:25 PM**

Ah, but maybe on their long walk home, they could hit Crown Burger and take in a movie at the Century along the way?

delts145 · #**1145** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 2:21 PM**

Given the near-future plans for that district though, it would seem like the swath of urbanism is going to cover quite a sizeable area. I mean, when you consider the Market Station plans as a whole, along with the strong push to put the first of many Trolley's in the general vicinity, it would seem that any property one could grab and hold onto for development in the reasonably close vicinity of TRAX would be a profit generator.

Of course, the closer to Market Station and the trolleys or TRAX the better. I'm thinking that the closest plots have already been grabbed or are being held on to.

jtrent77 · #**1146** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 2:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by cololi

Interesting location. they will get zero benefit from light rail, way too far away even with a bus line. This thing needs to be located 3 blocks to the west. It is a positive sign economy wise though.

0 benefits at less than a mile from a TRAX stop?! C'mon that's got to be an exaggeration.

delts145 · #**1147** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 3:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

Wow this is crazy. In n Out is going everywhere.
First Draper, then west valley then jordan landing and now AF.

IN-N-OUT continues Utah invasion

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705286427,00.html

After the hip California burger joint IN-N-OUT publicly announced Draper as its first northern Utah location this month, planners of the eatery have been scrambling in and out of other cities across the Wasatch Front to arrange more foundations.

Besides Draper, the restaurant's prominent yellow arrow soon will shine in American Fork, Orem and West Valley City...

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delts145 · #**1148** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 3:30 PM**

Ultra Lux Waldorf Astoria resort to open in July - The Dakota Mountain Lodge is already accepting reservations

http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_1175071...ce=most_viewed

The rear of the Dakota Mountain Lodge is shaped like a horseshoe, with a pool and landscaped area in the plans for the middle. Photo by David Ryder/Park Record

...Cindy Lawrence, director of public relations and marketing communications for Dakota Mountain Lodge, said the resort is the first and only property in the Waldorf Astoria Collection to be built from the ground up...

The lodge is more than a hotel. The resort has its own destination spa, prestigious restaurant and the Frostwood gondola to The Canyons is about 100 yards from the entrance. If all goes as planned, it will also be encircled by an 18-hole golf course within the next few years.
Its Golden Door Spa is the newest location of the company that developed the "destination spa" or spa vacation concept, Lawrence said...

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cololi · #**1149** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 4:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by jtrent77

0 benefits at less than a mile from a TRAX stop?! C'mon that's got to be an exaggeration.

Maybe a bit of an exaggeration. Have you walked on 3300 South between 250 West and 220 East? Not exactly a walkers paradise. At best you will get people driving to the trax station. Which at least is better than driving all the way to whatever destination one may have.

market Station and sugarhouse tracks are 11 blocks away. 3300 S will not benefit from that. I like the fact 3300 South and State are densifying, and rental projects are going to be successful in that area, but Trax is not much of an amenity.

SLC Projects · #**1150** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 4:31 PM**

wow. i can't believe all these IN-N-OUT we are getting.

1. Draper
2. Orem
3. West Valley City
4. American Fork
5. Jordan Landings in West Jordan.

Seems like every day now we hear about another location IN-N-OUT wants to built in. Utah is about to become a much fatter state. LOL

jedikermit · #**1151** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

Utah is about to become a much fatter state. LOL

Ugh. Just what we don't need. Although we do rank pretty high in the "healthy state" category...maybe we could use some fattening up.

Nnnnngh.

T-Mac · #**1152** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 5:24 PM**

State extends incentive to candy maker to relocate

By Barbara Rattle
The Enterprise

The Governor's Office of Economic Development last week approved an $823,856 post-performance tax increment financing incentive for Dynamic Confections, a Salt Lake City candy manufacturer that produces products under the Mrs. Fields, Fernwood, Maxfield's, Bogdon's, Botticelli and Kencraft brand names.

Dynamic Confections is considering the addition of 110 full time positions over the next 10.5 years; the jobs would pay 25 percent above the Salt Lake County average wage. The firm has not yet decided whether it will accept the incentive.

According to a January memo to Draper City officials, company president and CEO R. Taz Murray says Dynamic Confections is considering a relocation to the former Ballard Medical Kimberly Clark facility and the subsequent development of the adjoining acreage surrounding the facility over the next six years. Dynamic Confections is asking the Draper RDA for $2.5 million in assistance to help offset costs associated with the necessary improvements to the vacant Ballard facility.

"The current acreage around the Ballard Medical plant sits completely idle and remains in a greenbelt for taxation purposes," Murray wrote. "2008 taxes on the undeveloped 57 acres surrounding Ballard totaled approximately $275, which is clearly negligible in the Draper City economy. Given the economic instability recently exhibited in the commercial markets throughout the United States, it would be imprudent for Price Realty to develop any of the additional acreage currently sitting in greenbelt until the buildings currently vacant are occupied by quality anchor manufacturing businesses that in turn will help attract related suppliers or other businesses to the area."

Dynamic Confections has roughly 400 employees in Utah. According to GOED, Dynamic Confections would invest more than $4 million in facilities and training should it make the move to Draper. Presently, the bulk of the firm's operations are in Salt Lake City, although its Kencraft hard candies are produced in Alpine.

DMTower · #**1153** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by T-Mac

State extends incentive to candy maker to relocate

...Dynamic Confections is considering a relocation to the former Ballard Medical Kimberly Clark facility and the subsequent development of the adjoining acreage surrounding the facility over the next six years.

Ewww.... just knowing those cookies are coming out of a former medical plant is enough to never ever want to eat those cookies again.

Future Mayor · #**1154** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 7:09 PM**

Mrs. Fields has a line of candy such as the orange and raspberry sticks, that would be produced by this company. I know that the cookies you buy at the mall are not produced by that company, so go ahead and buy one at the mall.

Plus its a former medical parts plant, which if you think about it would probably one of the cleanest environments there is. It's not like they'll be making cookies were used body parts were being processed of something. lol

urbanboy · #**1155** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 7:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by T-Mac

State extends incentive to candy maker to relocate

By Barbara Rattle
The Enterprise

The Governor's Office of Economic Development last week approved an $823,856 post-performance tax increment financing incentive for Dynamic Confections, a Salt Lake City candy manufacturer...

Dynamic Confections is considering a relocation to the former Ballard Medical Kimberly Clark facility and the subsequent development of the adjoining acreage surrounding the facility over the next six years...

...Presently, the bulk of the firm's operations are in Salt Lake City, although its Kencraft hard candies are produced in Alpine.

Great!

Salt Lake City will lose those jobs to a suburb.

Stenar · #**1156** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by jtrent77

Yeah, yeah, and you use this excuse everytime to promote the same agenda. I like everyone else, don't think it applies...so if you want to continue to talk about this now OR when other issues like this arise in the future, please find a more suitable venue.

As someone who has actually worked in marketing Utah to conventions and businesses, I know comments and actions by people like Buttars do affect Utah's ability to attract businesses.

Stenar · #**1157** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 7:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

The Ridge Condominiums

Those are so ugly I want to poke my eyes out.

DMTower · #**1158** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 1:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by Future Mayor

Mrs. Fields has a line of candy such as the orange and raspberry sticks, that would be produced by this company. I know that the cookies you buy at the mall are not produced by that company, so go ahead and buy one at the mall.

Plus its a former medical parts plant, which if you think about it would probably one of the cleanest environments there is. It's not like they'll be making cookies were used body parts were being processed of something. lol

You say that now but just wait until you find a latex glove finger in one of your raspberry sticks! lol

Urban_logic · #**1159** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 2:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by TANGELD_SLC

Jordan River marketplace moves forward
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11735381
Big plans » City leaders have high hopes for the development -- and don't want just another strip mall.

I love your ambition West Valley!! I must admit that I have my doubts, but I am a firm believer that the best successes come from the most unexpected places. Just look at the Eiffel Tower - it was widely ridiculed by the French "ellite" as being too industrial and unattractive. Now there probably isn't a French person in the world who is ashamed of the Eiffel Tower. You have my support, West Valley, now make me proud!!

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Originally Posted by jedikermit

Oog. How about "extra-extra extraordinary" ?

I'm skeptical about this project--its location, the unfocused goals of the project, the design and implementation have all felt off-kilter since its inception. I worry that they're pouring millions of dollars into something to try and make it work, when they could put that money into redeveloping parts of WVC that could use the work more than a vacant field that could be more suitable as open space preservation.

Hopefully all the money poured into this project invests well and comes back. I was thinking along similar lines. I just hope that West Valley shows us we're wrong!

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

Wow this is crazy. In n Out is going everywhere.
First Draper, then west valley then jordan landing and now AF.

Jordan Landing? Where?? I heard rumor they were looking into Jordan Landing a while ago, but I didn't know it had materialized. You better not be lying...or else

jedikermit · #**1160** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 4:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by Urban_logic

Jordan Landing? Where?? I heard rumor they were looking into Jordan Landing a while ago, but I didn't know it had materialized. You better not be lying...or else

Just West of Target...using the same parking lot as Target, I think...