Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 3 - Page 253

ToysNoiz · #**5041** Posted **Sep 6, 2013, 10:40 PM**

Every time I think 111 couldn't get any better..... it does. I really hope this tower is awarded more than just an LEED certificate. A lot of work has gone into making this building the best it can possibly be.

Future Mayor · #**5042** Posted **Sep 6, 2013, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by ToysNoiz

.... I really hope this tower is awarded more than just an LEED certificate. A lot of work has gone into making this building the best it can possibly be.

What do you mean by you hope it gets awarded more than just a LEED certificate? The design is targeting LEED Gold.

Stenar · #**5043** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 4:17 AM**

OMG!!! This is one of the ugliest buildings ever.

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This was taken back in June by John Martin. Anyone in the area able to give us an update?

Ronald McDonald House

http://img.ksl.com

Pic By John Martin

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ToysNoiz · #**5044** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 4:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by Future Mayor

What do you mean by you hope it gets awarded more than just a LEED certificate? The design is targeting LEED Gold.

Perhaps something like a Daylight and Building Component Award. I don't know. I'm just really impressed with the focus on making the building very attractive.

Comrade · #**5045** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 5:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by Stenar

OMG!!! This is one of the ugliest buildings ever.

Maybe not the ugliest ... but definitely ugly.

ToysNoiz · #**5046** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 5:12 AM**

Comic Con tonight was very crowded and lively. The streets were full and Trax was loaded. These photos really don't describe how jam-packed it was.

Now for some reason, it ended at 8PM. I got there at 5:30PM, so I was only able to explore about a quarter of the place. It should keep going until at least 10PM!

But still great fun.

I really like these views of the city from the Salt Palace. 222 and the American Condo Towers look really good. 111 will make a huge impact from right here.

Most hotels I noticed were all lit up with people looking out the windows taking photos of the city. Restaurants were full of people wearing extravagant costumes. Let's hope next year's convention brings even more people to Utah!

Oh, by the way. William Shatner and Adam West were hilarious together at their panel. Everyone laughed the whole time.

jimmycdii · #**5047** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 5:34 AM**

nice pics!

And yeah, I left my office at the Gateway about 7 pm and saw a train from SL Central to downtown. It had four cars (usually I think there'd just be two or three at that time of day) and they were pretty much all full. Very cool.

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Originally Posted by ToysNoiz

Comic Con tonight was very crowded and lively. The streets were full and Trax was loaded. These photos really don't describe how jam-packed it was.

Now for some reason, it ended at 8PM. I got there at 5:30PM, so I was only able to explore about a quarter of the place. It should keep going until at least 10PM!

But still great fun.

I really like these views of the city from the Salt Palace. 222 and the American Condo Towers look really good. 111 will make a huge impact from right here.

Most hotels I noticed were all lit up with people looking out the windows taking photos of the city. Restaurants were full of people wearing extravagant costumes. Let's hope next year's convention brings even more people to Utah!

Oh, by the way. William Shatner and Adam West were hilarious together at their panel. Everyone laughed the whole time.

Comrade · #**5048** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 6:00 AM**

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Makid · #**5049** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 1:41 PM**

The following images were taken yesterday just about 12:15pm:

The above images show just the line outside after the event had been open for between 1 and 2 hours. The line stretched to the Museum of Contemporary Art. We estimated there were at least 5,000 people just outside at this time.

Also, when Trax would stop at the West Temple stop, the majority of people came and joined the line. Trax even with running 4 cars on all trains has been packed. Some people heading to downtown were told that the train was full and to take the next one.

Now, some of the following images may be blurry but that is what happens on camera phones. There were taken from inside the Salt Palace about 1:00pm. No, I didn't attend, I just walked through after lunch:

The next image is of the various lines. The line closest to the main show floor (right side) are just waiting to go to the show floor. This line extended outside and wrapped up West Temple (Line shown in outdoor pics). The other line (left side) is waiting for one of the panel discussions. There were some smaller panel discussion lines through out the area with large lines as well.

This image is just to show the size of the main panel discussion line:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5473/9690632587_ce487cdf5a_z.jpg

2 More lines for various panel discussions:

All of those I was with as we walked through the Salt Palace after lunch estimated that there was about 25,000 people inside.

Now to give a sense of scale for the number of people, I have walked through Outdoor Retailer events and yesterday felt a lot more crowded.

I think that today (Saturday) will be even more crowded. Ticket sales as of Thursday were over 39,000. The on-site registration yesterday as we left was about 1/2 full, so you can add at least another 5,000 to that total. Today is going to be bigger when you add Stan Lee, William Shatner, Adam West and Burt Ward to the panels.

I can't wait for next years event as I expect it to be even bigger than this one.

If anyone did go today (Saturday), please posts some pics

SLC Projects · #**5050** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 2:36 PM**

Utahn petitions for Lego to make Muppet blocks
KSL.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man is trying to combine his love of two different toys by petitioning Lego to make a line of Muppet figures.

Quinn Rollins is a Social Studies Specialist for Granite School District, but he said one of his true passions involves building and creating toys. He said that since he was a young boy, he loved the unlimited creativity that Lego blocks gave him, and now he loves seeing his two young sons experience it as well.

"I love seeing my two sons play with Lego in ways that I wouldn't think of myself," Rollins said. "I still love building with Lego as an adult, even though the things I build now might be different than what I would have done when I was a kid."

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=26755921&nid=711...muppet-blocks&fm=home_page&s_cid=queue-5

downtownslcresident · #**5051** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 2:59 PM**

I'm sorry, but lately people on this forum seem to think that Lego collections have something to do wth development downtown....and it's kinda annoying. I know I sound like a prude, but I'm just pointing out that other people have been told to stick to the topic in the past, sometimes by the very people that are now posting about Legos constantly. Can we please stay on topic? Thanks.

SLC Projects · #**5052** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 5:18 PM**

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I'm sorry, but lately people on this forum seem to think that Lego collections have something to do wth development downtown....and it's kinda annoying. I know I sound like a prude, but I'm just pointing out that other people have been told to stick to the topic in the past, sometimes by the very people that are now posting about Legos constantly. Can we please stay on topic? Thanks.

The guy in the story is a member of this forum, thought I would just share the info where we can vote and surrport.

Boz · #**5053** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 5:37 PM**

Comic Con was amazing and packed yesterday. I have tons of images but I'll put them on my flickr account and post a link here later. Very cool.

The dusty salt cloud that enveloped the city for a few hours in the evening wasn't very nice, but...

farmerboy · #**5054** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 6:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Stenar

OMG!!! This is one of the ugliest buildings ever.

I think it's cute.

jimmycdii · #**5055** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 8:04 PM**

I just saw from several sources on Twitter that ComicCon is officially sold out with 50,000 tickets sold. The fire marshall apparently won't let any more people in.

I saw a lot of positive comments, but also a lot of complaining about the impossible lines and huge crush of people. I wonder what this means for the future...

youngatheist · #**5056** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 8:25 PM**

I was in line waiting for like an hour and they said it was sold out around 12:20 ish. You were good if you had bought tix online but I hadn't so I was screwed. Line was super long and roundabout.

scottharding · #**5057** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 9:03 PM**

Well, going back to the earlier discussion about the impact comic-con might have on the convention center hotel, I think it will have quite an impact. I don't know about hotel rooms, but it has demonstrated an immediate need for more exhibit space.

Scraperdude801 · #**5058** Posted **Sep 8, 2013, 12:44 AM**

Having been to Comic Con, and other conventions, I was surprised to see that not all of the Salt Palace was used. The lines were ridiculous because there was a lot of people, and they didn't rent out the whole Salt Palace, so everyone was sandwiched in.

All wasn't lost, though. Stan Lee's panel was only 15 or so minutes long, but it was pure gold through and through.

This year's event was only expected to be like 5k people whe they started putting it together, but it ended up being 50k. Yes, they should have stopped selling tickets at a certain point, so everyone could get their money's worth (people with wrist bands were waiting outside for hours to come in); but by not capping it until 50k, our city was able to show the true extent of our demand. I am sure next year's event will have more headlining celebrities, be better organized, and feature more entertaining booths/exhibits.

Scraperdude801 · #**5059** Posted **Sep 8, 2013, 12:49 AM**

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The guy in the story is a member of this forum, thought I would just share the info where we can vote and surrport.

I thought it was great thay you posted it. We should all be supporting Jedikermit as he petitions LEGO; Afterall, LEGO's are the quintessential development toy!

ajiuO · #**5060** Posted **Sep 8, 2013, 1:38 AM**

I was also at comic con.. Pretty Awesome. I had prepaid online but when I got there.. A dude was standing outside yelling through a megaphone that they were sold out and he was turning down craploads of people. He also was saying that comic con would be back... Salt palace reached its small limit I guess :/

For the William Shatner and Stan Lee event I was lucky enough to get in the main auditorium.. But once again.. Not enough space.. They had to put a lot of people in some overflow room with a screen :/

They mentioned a few interesting tidbits during the events... Sounds like salt lake was the biggest FIRST YEAR comic con ever.. I'll have to look in to that.

Also they mentioned extending it by two days next time..

It was very crowded and I heard severely people complaining about the size of the salt palace..