Yeah, I went by Regent Street, hoping for some kinda action -- uh, demolition, not...action. Anyway. Kinda forgot that they don't do much on Saturdays. If I have time, I may try to swing by tomorrow, but it seems unlikely.
It's a good thing you corrected yourself, afterall Regent used to be Commercial Street, Salt Lake City's Red Light District.
Alright den, here are photos from my Okland Construction Court House tour last Thursday.
I asked what the approximate height of the building was. Nobody was able to estimate. Ceiling heights range from 14ft - 19ft.
There were twenty people in the group. We all had to wear hard hats and orange vests. The interiors of the elevators weren't finished yet, wood was still showing. We didn't take trips, so we all crammed in together. Everyone was touching face to face. It was quite cozy. Many took photos.
Boiler room...
Hard wood floors all throughout. The inside of the building must be kept humid so that the wood doesn't dry. Very beautiful. only problem is with 19ft high ceilings, the place echos really bad.
Every federal building has a limited budget for art. All of the money was spent on these aluminum pillars hanging down one open side of the building.
Here's looking down from the 9th floor. Trippy, but very cool.
Every floor has censors detecting how much daylight is being let in through the windows. As the sun rises, the lights slowly dim. They also detect how many people are in a room, adjusting the lights accordingly.
Thanks for posting the interior pics of the Federal Courthouse. I think it looks incredible inside. I also think that I'm one of the few in SLC that really loves the exterior as well but I'm okay with that. At least the design isn't drab or boring. It definitely gets people talking--even if it's mostly disparaging statements. Across the street, the proposed location of the Air Center is almost completely clear. They haven't secured their building permits yet but I've heard that they're very close.
On a different note, one of the projects that has me excited lately are those that surround the 900 South TRAX Station. The RDA is heavily invested in that neighborhood that they're trying to brand as Central 9th. The RDA last week decided to put up most of their properties at the intersection of 900 South 200 West out for development. They also have some midblock properties that will be available. If done right, I think that this could be a real game changer for the neighborhood. I'm excited to see what the submittals look like.
Awesome updates everyone, both photo and info. I've got Spring Fever (mostly I want the inversion to go away) but for me, Spring Fever includes the sort of the accelerated push we see in development when the weather improves. Spring is a glorious time in SLC.
I had a reminder yesterday that not everybody thinks exactly like me (or most on this forum). I was in one of the conference rooms at my work and the view is incredible. It looks accross main street the Wells Fargo building on the right, One Utah Center on the left, and then there's the backdrop of the U and the mountains. We were talking about how much we liked the view and one co-worker said 'it's too bad that those two buildings are in the way, otherwise the view would really be good'. I said that the buildings were my favorite part of the view.
I then pointed out the La Porte project and mentioned how long it had taken them to get above ground. Someone asked what the project was and I talked about how the old Rex Theater was there and how they were going to refurbish it but ended up tearing it down instead. Someone asked how I knew all this and I simply said, i just know things like that. It's funny how I could tell people details on every development project going on in the city and most people drive past the develpments everyday without even a thought of 'i wonder what their building there'
Speaking of Spring, I know of at least 3 multi-family projects that should be starting in early Spring. Seasons at Library Square, Seasons at Denver Street and a project at about 250 South 500 East where the Salvation Army was at one time. Other residential projects that may break ground in Spring/Summer are the additional buildings at Bridgest at Citifront, apartments at 1400 South 300 West and the project on the NW corner of 400 South 500 East.
Some projects don't seem to be going anywhere include: Brunswick Apartments on 200 East, ParkField Apartments across from the ballpark and a large project at 700 South 300 West.
I was down at City Creek Center this morning, and took a detour to the top of the Regent Street parking terrace. There wasn't much visible progress from the ground as far as demolition goes, but looking down, they were doing a lot of roof work--removing uh...things that stick out from the top of buildings. They had a Bobcat-type small bulldozer cleaning out the second floor of the press building, workers separating out recyclable metals, etc...so it is moving forward, you just don't see much from Regent Street proper.
Looking off the other side, they were doing roofwork on top of the Zims Building--laying down new white roofing material. Good to see they're doing things there too, even if it's not the facade work that we'd really like to see.
You could also see dozens of workers on site at the parking structure just south of the Federal Building and north of 151 State; cool to see so much busyness.
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I had a reminder yesterday that not everybody thinks exactly like me (or most on this forum). I was in one of the conference rooms at my work and the view is incredible. It looks accross main street the Wells Fargo building on the right, One Utah Center on the left, and then there's the backdrop of the U and the mountains. We were talking about how much we liked the view and one co-worker said 'it's too bad that those two buildings are in the way, otherwise the view would really be good'. I said that the buildings were my favorite part of the view.
I then pointed out the La Porte project and mentioned how long it had taken them to get above ground. Someone asked what the project was and I talked about how the old Rex Theater was there and how they were going to refurbish it but ended up tearing it down instead. Someone asked how I knew all this and I simply said, i just know things like that. It's funny how I could tell people details on every development project going on in the city and most people drive past the develpments everyday without even a thought of 'i wonder what their building there'
Yeah, I'm the same way around people. If I'm driving with someone, I'll point out and say "Oh, wow! That's rising quickly! Construction on that started for blah blah blah blah.... Oh, look! There's a crane for the blah blah blah. There's another development project on 100 south where..." And the person will say, "Geez, kid. What the hell are you talking about? That all went over my head. How you know about all that? I don't even pay attention to buildings."
On one hand, I also have similar experience with my family: that glazed expression your loved ones acquire as you start to gush about foundation work, construction web cams, cornices, facades...
On the other hand, I've found that when friends or family deign to notice a construction project they'd not noticed in the past, they DO shoot me a text asking what's going in there. Encouraged, I start to gush about whatever development that is... and here comes the glazed expression...
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