Salt Lake MSA Development Thread - Page 132

Bob The Builder · #**2621** Posted **May 8, 2011, 2:56 PM**

From my friends that work at Ebay; Ebay is Looking to build a campus since they have out grown their rented office space in Draper. They are looking for property in Draper, Sandy, South Jordan, Riverton or maybe in Lehi.
From what I hear it would be 4 square buildings with sky bridges connecting them together. The buildings would be 2-8 stories.

Future Mayor · #**2622** Posted **May 8, 2011, 5:42 PM**

If they're going to stay in the burbs I hope they choose someplace around FrontRunner or Trax. I think Day Break would be a great location for them.

SLC Projects · #**2623** Posted **May 8, 2011, 8:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bob The Builder

From my friends that work at Ebay; Ebay is Looking to build a campus since they have out grown their rented office space in Draper. They are looking for property in Draper, Sandy, South Jordan, Riverton or maybe in Lehi.
From what I hear it would be 4 square buildings with sky bridges connecting them together. The buildings would be 2-8 stories.

I thought I remember hearing once that Ebay was planning on building a building out in daybreak. ( This was a few years ago ) Daybreak would be a good place as well as Sandy as long if it's built near Trax as FM just stated. I hope those buildings will be closer to 8-stories then only 2-stories.

SLC Projects · #**2624** Posted **May 8, 2011, 8:44 PM**

Also for those who care today we went to the The Living Planet Aquarium. While there I was taking to somebody who works there and he told me that the Aquarium is now taking Donations to help pay for their new building. I ask so when will we see this new building? He then told me that they plan to break ground THIS November. I then ask him if they know where they plan to build this. He didn't know where, however the two cities are Sandy or Draper just off of I-15. So I guess where ever there is open land next to the freeway within those two cities. I'm still hoping that it will go on the open land space near the Sandy city hall where the theater was once planned to go.

billbillbillbill · #**2625** Posted **May 8, 2011, 9:21 PM**

Ebay built a data center at Daybreak but kept their employees in Draper.

Bob The Builder · #**2626** Posted **May 8, 2011, 9:43 PM**

I'd Like to See these Ebay buildings go just south of the Sandy City Hall next to I-15; or buy & demo the old Lowes building at 90th South just north of Rio Tino Stadium. It would be nice to have some 5-12 story buildings around the stadium (Office, Hotel, Condos ect).

Orlando · #**2627** Posted **May 8, 2011, 10:11 PM**

I'ld like to see them build in downtown SLC!!! Why do these office developments keep going to the farthest suburbs!!!

This just keeps perpetuating sprawl! When are we going to learn to kick this bad and unhealthy development practice!!!!!!!!!!

Stenar · #**2628** Posted **May 8, 2011, 11:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

I thought I remember hearing once that Ebay was planning on building a building out in daybreak.

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

( This was a few years ago ) Daybreak would be a good place as well as Sandy as long if it's built near Trax as FM just stated. I hope those buildings will be closer to 8-stories then only 2-stories.

eBay built a data center at Daybreak. It seems like it would make sense for them to move their customer service dept to Daybreak as well.

s.p.hansen · #**2629** Posted **May 8, 2011, 11:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Orlando

I'ld like to see them build in downtown SLC!!! Why do these office developments keep going to the farthest suburbs!!!

This just keeps perpetuating sprawl! When are we going to learn to kick this bad and unhealthy development practice!!!!!!!!!!

Tech companies, though they often claim to be hip and lovers of the environment, almost always build in tech parks or off the freeway where land is cheap. They are big time hypocrites. Lol, big oil is better at building up downtowns.

delts145 · #**2630** Posted **May 9, 2011, 2:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by s.p.hansen

Lol, big oil is better at building up downtowns.

Exactly, just look at Denver's skyline boom during the 80's, or current Calgary.

Future Mayor · #**2631** Posted **May 9, 2011, 6:35 AM**

and don't get your hopes up for more than 4 stories on the new ebay buildings. I think I mentioned it once, but I'll mention it again. My brother in law, and Major client relations officer for Adobe talked to the architect about their new building and why they were going with such a large footprint rather than taller.

Building over 4 stories requires major changes in foundations and structural steel, and increase costs substantially.

So the same reason they move to the burbs, cheap land, also allows them to build 4, 4 story buildings as opposed to one 16 story building, it's less expensive. If companies looked at the externalities of their building in the burbs they would realize that in the long run it's expensive, unfortunately companies don't run their bottom line based on externalities.

I still hold on hope that as SLC continues to grow in population and businesses that EA will be a model for other similar companies, and we will see one or two more move into the downtown core, which in turn brings more in.

TonyAnderson · #**2632** Posted **May 9, 2011, 7:59 AM**

All you can really hope for is that these campuses get put by good infrastructure and mass transportation options. Sooner than later the prime land will be filled up, between the valleys, and there will be nowhere else to go but up.

Micron is also looking at building a large campus in Draper / Lehi area.http://www.utahurbanforum.com/micron...-use-t444.html

delts145 · #**2633** Posted **May 9, 2011, 12:02 PM**

Tony, you made me think also of transportation between the valleys... Won't it be great when FrontRunner finally connects the two valleys. I'm thinking of all of those times when negotiating I-15 over the Point of the Mountain during high winds and snow is pretty nerve wracking and dangerous.

Bob The Builder · #**2634** Posted **May 10, 2011, 1:09 AM**

Future Mayor is correct. The Land and building cost is cheaper in the 'Burbs' than down town. I too wish that there were few office parks and campuses out there and more high rises in Salt Lake as well as Provo and Ogden. I wish Salt Lake RDA would provide more incentives for major companies like ebay, Adobe, Mircosoft ect to invest in down town instead of the 'burbs'. But its better than nothing.

delts145 · #**2635** Posted **May 10, 2011, 12:31 PM**

West Jordan to complete critical segment of Jordan River trail

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51...hnson.html.csp

...Chris McCandless, vice chairman of the newly formed Jordan River Commission and a member of the Sandy City Council, said its completion would be “monumental.”

“I’m going to do a back flip,” McCandless mused. “We are coming down the final stretch of the lake-to-lake vision.”...

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delts145 · #**2636** Posted **May 10, 2011, 1:00 PM**

Park City - Bonanza Tunnel Opens

http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_18010599

...It now serves as the crucial link for pedestrians and bicyclists between Prospector and Old Town. Someone can now walk or bicycle from the vicinity of Main Street to the Park City School District campus without having to cross a major street at the surface level. The tunnel also provides easy access to the popular Rail Trail from points south and west...

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Orlando · #**2637** Posted **May 11, 2011, 5:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Bob The Builder

Future Mayor is correct. The Land and building cost is cheaper in the 'Burbs' than down town. I too wish that there were few office parks and campuses out there and more high rises in Salt Lake as well as Provo and Ogden. I wish Salt Lake RDA would provide more incentives for major companies like ebay, Adobe, Mircosoft ect to invest in down town instead of the 'burbs'. But its better than nothing.

Ebay's development sounds like it could have easily been a 20 story highrise in downtown SLC. So, does Abobe's development.

delts145 · #**2638** Posted **May 11, 2011, 2:40 PM**

I guess Orlando, I'm just so happy that these companies continue to make big committments to the Salt Lake area, that I'm just happy to go along. I resist the temptation to want to wack them upside the head, LOL.

It isn't an immediate fix to our dream of adding to the Downtown density boom, but hopefully all of the additions in the metro hubs will at least trickle down to Salt Lake's CBD rise in glory. I'm sure these Fortune 500 expansions in the metro will attract more Hamilton Partners/Goldman Sachs type situations.

TonyAnderson · #**2639** Posted **May 11, 2011, 2:40 PM**

With Adobe, they were already headquartered in Orem, so moving that far north was going to isolate many of their employees. In that circumstance I can understand a bit.

delts145 · #**2640** Posted **May 11, 2011, 2:51 PM**

True... also, and purely from a very objective perspective, resisting the surreal, prime location of Thanksgiving Point, is like a retailer resisting the location of Fashion Place. I still maintain that Salt Lake's CBD is going to continue to build and share in a substantial amount of the glory that is going around the metro.