Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 3

[ToysNoiz]

I took some time to work on these last night and today. Hope you all enjoy.

[Reachforthesky]

Originally Posted by ToysNoiz

I took some time to work on these last night and today. Hope you all enjoy.

Seriously awesome! Thanks! I love the 5th South angle! 111 is gonna do wonders at bridging the "Two Downtowns" that we have

[ctobsl]

ToysNoiz,

Excellent work on your photos!
I love how the tower looks in the skyline.

[SLC Projects]

Nice work. The night view looks awesome with 111 south right next to 99 west. Salt Lake is starting to have a real skyline.

[jedikermit]

Yeah, great job ToyzNoiz. I was at Harmons yesterday looking west up 100 South and imagining it there. Your "imagination" is better. Because I can see it.

[wrendog]

More! More! Those are awesome!

[scottharding]

Awesome, ToysNoiz! Thanks for doing that. It's great to have a visual idea of what's in store.

[ToysNoiz]

I took this photo of 99 West at City Creek Yesterday.

[ToysNoiz]

Due to insomnia last night, I placed 111 in the skyline as seen near the U of U.

[jedikermit]

Nicely done.

BTW, love your "Destroy 200 S. Carls Jr" tagline.

[scottharding]

Wow, it will really make a significant difference from that angle! I sure wish we had some kind of idea of what the Convention Center Hotel would look like and where exactly it would be to add to these photos.

Give me an inch, I take a mile, btw.

[justiny]

ToysNoiz, you are great at your craft. Very much appreciated.

I really want to thank ToysNoiz renderings for getting this forum off the discussion of dealing with the homeless population. Every city has it, and every city has it's own challenges.

I want to ask a VERY SPECIFIC question, one that I don't want to revert to the homeless population conversation and how we deal with it.

Did SLC really transport the homeless to Las Vegas during the 2002 Olympics? And if they did, is there any evidence of that?

I remember the media speculation on that and I always wondered if it was true.

This is a development thread, so I want to stress that I do not wish to go back to the last few days discussion since we've hopefully moved on.

[Stenar]

According to the NY Times, SLC normally has about 2,000 homeless people at any given time, but it swelled to 3,000 during the Olympics and the city created a temporary overflow shelter in a warehouse.

Homeless people came to Utah from all over to try for opportunities in Utah created by the Olympics. Perhaps, some of the homeless headed to SLC stopped in Vegas on the way and decided to stay there instead. Sure, that's speculation, but that's what the Las Vegas mayor did in speculating that SLC was sending homeless his way with no evidence.

www.nytimes.com



S.L. denies Vegas rumor
Mayor accuses city of busing homeless south before Games

Salt Lake City officials and homeless advocates deny charges by Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman that the city's homeless are being bused south.

The accusations surfaced Thursday when both Las Vegas newspapers had comments from Goodman claiming that he had "reliable sources" telling him that Salt Lake City police were buying bus tickets to Las Vegas for homeless people. He also said that if the claims were true, "it would be war."

If somebody were truly busing the homeless out of Salt Lake City, everyone would know, said Matt Minkevitch, executive director of The Road Home (formerly Traveler's Aid). Not only would it impact services there, it would also be noticed by shelters in Salt Lake City.


www.deseretnews.com

Originally Posted by justiny

... Did SLC really transport the homeless to Las Vegas during the 2002 Olympics? And if they did, is there any evidence of that?

I remember the media speculation on that and I always wondered if it was true.

This is a development thread, so I want to stress that I do not wish to go back to the last few days discussion since we've hopefully moved on.

[Boz]

Great job ToysNoiz. It definitely helps out the skyline.

That being said, I really wish it wasn't just another midheight rectangle, but whatev. That's what I've come to expect.

[Merewether]

Mary Brown Malouf, the food critic at Salt Lake Magazine, has a blog post about the long empty space at NW corner of 300S 300E. From the outside it is obvious this is a shedlike building although when it was an antique store the clutter disguised the interior. The photos in her blog show an interesting space and she says that the prospective developer (owner of Vinto) proposes using part of the building for a new restaurant and subleasing the eastern part in small sections for small vendors to set up stalls a la Ferry Bldg in San Francisco.

http://www.saltlakemagazine.com/blog/2013/08/09/cool-news-slc-more-downtown-dining-is-on-the-way/

[jimmycdii]

Originally Posted by Merewether

Mary Brown Malouf, the food critic at Salt Lake Magazine, has a blog post about the long empty space at NW corner of 300S 300E. From the outside it is obvious this is a shedlike building although when it was an antique store the clutter disguised the interior. The photos in her blog show an interesting space and she says that the prospective developer (owner of Vinto) proposes using part of the building for a new restaurant and subleasing the eastern part in small sections for small vendors to set up stalls a la Ferry Bldg in San Francisco.

http://www.saltlakemagazine.com/blog/2013/08/09/cool-news-slc-more-downtown-dining-is-on-the-way/

Interesting and cool.

At some point when I was trying to move to SLC (Dec-Feb), my realtor said something about this. She made is sound like it was moving forward at that time. (She was a pretty lousy realtor though, so I never quite trusted her.)

[DMTower]

Looks like they are building the Hyatt right along with the parking garage.

[scrapernerd]

Watching 13 news today they reported that a company from San Fran, just bought the 136 S State St building and is going to re-skin the the builiding, and put in a new lobby.
I'm excited for this because this is one of my least favorite looking building in SLC

[Orlando]

Thanks for the info. I think we already knew about the reskin, but not sure.

[SLC Projects]

News to me. What building is 136?