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Originally Posted by Utah_Dave
Yeah, but it's going to be another option for more companies to look elsewhere and not build down town potential. Perhaps those businesses weren't look at our downtown area anyway. Time will tell but I feel in the short run it will probably stifle development downtown to a certain degree. But, it will be a positive to Utah overall and probably increase our status for business and tech overall so I'll take it as a win overall.
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The Inland Port is more about bringing additional manufacturing/assembly plants and warehouses to the area.
While some companies may have a larger personnel increase in the area, there will be some companies that will have larger Regional or US Headquarters in the area and for those, there is still a big chance they will locate downtown due to proximity to the plant/warehouse but also because the infrastructure in any land nearby would be lacking for a larger scale workforce.
The port would also attract support companies that would fill in areas around the plants/warehouses to further reduce the ability for suburban campus environments to appear nearby.
If Trax can be extended to the area as well as a possible FrontRunner spur that could eventually be extended to Tooele, I think this would be further incentive for those Headquarters to be built in or directly adjacent to downtown.
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This is only 6 or 7 stories, right? They could have gone with 5 floors Type III or Type V wood construction over 1 to 3 floors of Concrete -Type I construction and saved a lot of money.
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