Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 3

[DMTower]

Maybe this is why Pioneer Park has been overrun lately?

Nevada Dumps Mentally Ill and Homeless onto Buses, Sends Them to Other States

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/nevad...s-onto-buses-sends-them-to-other-states/

[Stenar]

Originally Posted by Merewether

Obviously, given my avatar I am too. BTW, the pictured object is a coin bank.
Coin banks in the shape of buildings (real or generic) are collectible , see eBay for examples.

I thought your avatar was the Eagle Gate/World Trade tower.

I like the Ken Garff building, but I like the PSB much, much more.

[ajiuO]

Not sure if this has been mentioned but gateway lost another one.. Biaggis is no more. That one surprised me a bit.. There was always a good 10-15 minuet wait when I went there.. The new place next door always looks empty.. Wonder how long they can hold on :/

Gateway has started improvement work.. Nothing to dramatic though.

[ajiuO]

Ahh.. Found an article on the Biaggis thing.. Its sounds like they sued gateway to terminate its leas and are also suing them for 300k

Biaggis had an exclusive Italian restaurant agreement at the mall witch gateway violated by allowing la Jolla Grove to open next door.

[jedikermit]

Originally Posted by ajiuO

Ahh.. Found an article on the Biaggis thing.. Its sounds like they sued gateway to terminate its leas and are also suing them for 300k

Biaggis had an exclusive Italian restaurant agreement at the mall witch gateway violated by allowing la Jolla Grove to open next door.

We've already talked about it a little bit--that's too bad, though. I really liked Biaggis.

[UTAZLoVer]

I walked through the Gateway last night - interior construction is happening for Charming Charlie which is across from the old Bebe (where Urban Wear recently was) and Urban Wear has moved in to the old Bebe. Called to Surf and Blickenstaff's are both closed. I spoke with the bartender at CPK and he said they are committing to a full 2.5 million remodel to the newest concept, but not until late next year because they want to wait and see if the Zion Curtains falls first - otherwise they would be doing the remodel right after Christmas. So a mixed bag of news for the Gateway in my opinion.

[strippadam]

Called to Surf and Bickenstaff's are both owned by the same person and still have their operations open in the Shops at Riverwoods in Provo.

[Future Mayor]

I am curious if The School Improvement Network is opening an additional office downtown, along with their existing office in Midvale or if they are moving all their local operations to downtown? I like that they are expanding their local operations, and I appreciate that they are rehabbing and upgrading what I assume is the former Mark Miller Toyota building downtown. They opened their Midvale office at State and Center St, in a rehabbed and upgraded bowling alley.

Remodeling old buildings seems to be their M.O.

[Makid]

In the Tribune article, it said that SINET (School Improvement Network) was moving their headquarters from Midvale to the former Mark Miller building.

The way I read the article was that they were moving all employees to the new building and consolidating everyone in the single location downtown.

This is what that area needs too. Hopefully this will help encourage more development in the area.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/56862575-79/million-company-tax-indus.html.csp

Indus:

Goldman Sachs, whose Salt Lake City office is the company’s fourth largest in the world, played a big role in Indus Valley Partners Corp.’s decision to expand its New York operations to Utah’s capital, Gurvinder Singh, CEO of the financial analytics software provider, told GOED’s board of directors.

"They were big proponents for this location," Singh said, "so that’s how we ended up here."

The board approved a $1.1 million tax credit for Indus Valley, which pledged to create 200 full-time jobs in Salt Lake City during the next 11 years. Indus Valley can draw on the credit as it creates the jobs.

SINET:

School Improvement Network (SINET) — which provides education software for students, teachers and school administrators — will receive a $3.1 million tax credit in return for creating 470 jobs during the next 10 years and investing $8 million into buying and renovating an empty building at the corner of 700 South and West Temple. SINET expects to complete the purchase of the building from Mark Miller Toyota by month’s end, said Chet Linton, SINET’s CEO.

Linton said the company will move its headquarters from Midvale to the new building. It should open in June with about 300 new hires.

I did like hearing that Indus is coming on the recommendation of Goldman Sachs, this does bode well for SLC as a location for more financial companies. With this news and news that the Governor was in New York talking to financial firms about expanding to Salt Lake, I do think we nearing a tipping point and we should hear more about expansions in the near future.

[Future Mayor]

I should have read the Trib article instead of just the D. News article that was posted.

[Makid]

The Trib was a bit slower on getting the article posted. But, they do have more information. I would have posted the Trib article sooner but my computer was having problems loading the Trib for most of the day.

[Reachforthesky]

KSL just ran a great story on the new Federal Courthouse in Downtown Salt Lake City. There are lots of great views in the video! and it opens with the courthouse set in a very dense looking downtown SLC. If you've ever wondered what the inside of the building looks like you got to watch this video!




http://www.ksl.com/?sid=26841229&nid=148

[Reachforthesky]

Lots of media coverage this week concerning downtown developments!

Looks like the CC Hotel is gaining more steam after comic con's HUGE success!

Here's the video from FOX 13:





http://fox13now.com/2013/09/13/success-o...les-discussion-regarding-downtown-hotel/

[SLC Projects]

Originally Posted by Reachforthesky

Lots of media coverage this week concerning downtown developments!

Looks like the CC Hotel is gaining more steam after comic con's HUGE success!

Here's the video from FOX 13:





http://fox13now.com/2013/09/13/success-o...les-discussion-regarding-downtown-hotel/

God our lawmakers are clueless.

[ToysNoiz]

Thanks for sharing the videos. I may be able to get a tour of the Courthouse soon. I'll be sure to post photos.

It's truly frustrating how short sighted our lawmakers are.

[jtrent77]

Heard on the radio today (mind you I live in the DC area) that according to one rating anyway, that Salt Lake City was a top producer for metro areas for jobs in recent years. The commentator called Salt Lake City "the little engine that could."

[Reachforthesky]

Originally Posted by ToysNoiz

Thanks for sharing the videos. I may be able to get a tour of the Courthouse soon. I'll be sure to post photos.

It's truly frustrating how short sighted our lawmakers are.

Yeah no problem ToysNoiz! That would be awesome if you could! Seriously these politicians must be blind! or paid off by folks (*cough*Grand America) who can't see that high tides float all boats!

[Comrade]

Took this at the Utes game. I won't talk about that, tho.

[jedikermit]

Nice picture.

But yeah. Let's not talk about that. It's all too fresh.

*rocking back and forth in the corner*

[EPdesign]

That is a very spectacular picture Comrade. I appreciate you sharing it.

I know the preferred location for a hotel such as the envisioned Convention Center Hotel has been brought up on multiple occasions. The locations suggested for consideration on the Fox 13 youtube feed do not convince me that they are the optimal locations. I have not read into enough to fully object to the lawmakers stand on the issue, however, it appears it is not going to be something that goes away any time soon.