Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 5

[locolife]

Originally Posted by Reeder113

Very cool pics, thanks! Those new lights on the front of the Hyatt Regency, do they only show up on the east side of that curved glass? Seems weird that they wouldn't wrap around the entire curved portion.

Yeah, the lights are throwing this off a lot at night, someone can get to the bottom of that right?

[gastronomicslc]

Originally Posted by delts145

I like this shot from Utah Now
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Thank you kind Internetter. I've uploaded a few more to the post now if it's of interest, just snaps from that day walking around the exterior.

[Reeder113]

Originally Posted by gastronomicslc

Thank you kind Internetter. I've uploaded a few more to the post now if it's of interest, just snaps from that day walking around the exterior.

Thanks! Great pics! Hope you don't mind if I share them here?

This really is a beautiful building. I love 95 State, and I love this. I must be a big fan of a lot of glass.

[Atlas]

I like the CCH in general but the way it doesn't interface with the Salt Palace architecturally is unfortunate. Those blank walls on the north and west really detract from it.

[Reeder113]

Originally Posted by Atlas

I like the CCH in general but the way it doesn't interface with the Salt Palace architecturally is unfortunate. Those blank walls on the north and west really detract from it.

I can't say I'm a fan of the boring walls, but my eyes certainly aren't drawn to them. That glass really captures my attention. But yeah, it would have been nice had they used that brown stone/brick on the side of the CC to integrate it.

[Reeder113]

Astra. We should start seeing steel soon.








West Quarter is looking close to being done.





Worthington.





Links from original reddit posts:


https://www.reddit.com/r/Development...ne_more_floor/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Development...tober_18_2022/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Development..._west_quarter/

[Orlando]

No steel on these. Post-Tensioned Concrete structure all the way up.

[dakben]

Given how much more slowly (and therefore, one would assume more costly) PCT goes, what is the benefit? Also doesn't PTC have a bigger environmental impact than steel?

[Reeder113]

Originally Posted by Orlando

No steel on these. Post-Tensioned Concrete structure all the way up.

Good to know, thanks!

[Paniolo Man]

Originally Posted by dakben

Given how much more slowly (and therefore, one would assume more costly) PCT goes, what is the benefit? Also doesn't PTC have a bigger environmental impact than steel?

It can actually go up pretty quick.

I would assume that the concrete is more environmentally sound because it can be sourced much closer to where it is used and it doesn't need to be refined as much as steel.

[Orlando]

Originally Posted by dakben

Given how much more slowly (and therefore, one would assume more costly) PCT goes, what is the benefit? Also doesn't PTC have a bigger environmental impact than steel?

With Post-Tensioned Concrete, you don't have any beams to deal with, and therefore you can shrink the floor to floor height . With steel, you have to coordinate ductwork and other things to go around the ductwork.

[LuisPanzer]

Im digging the new Hyatt building. It makes me wonder though, I'm in Denver this week for work and although I am pretty excited for Astra. We just wont be seeing any 500+ buildings like they have here in Denver in SLC for years to come.

[Comrade]

I like the Hyatt. It's not the most inventive high-rise but having seen other convention hotels, I think we did okay. I'd take it over...

Denver's Hyatt CCH:



Portland's Hyatt CCH:



Phoenix's CCH (I don't think it's technically a CCH but it is closest to the convention center):

[wrendog]

The PHX CCH is such a hideous travesty

[mstar]

Comrade, thanks for those pictures of other cities' Hyatt Regencies. Well, if nothing else, we can say we have the best Hyatt Regency Hotel in the west! Maybe the country!

[Juancrocco]

Originally Posted by mstar

Comrade, thanks for those pictures of other cities' Hyatt Regencies. Well, if nothing else, we can say we have the best Hyatt Regency Hotel in the west! Maybe the country!

+1 to this. There are some really great Hyatt Regency’s (and Grand and Park Hyatt’s) in the country and the world and I would say that ours matches the best of the best.

Plus the Northern Spanish restaurant has me very intrigued, I’ll definitely be going in the coming weeks to see how it turned out.

[Comrade]

Originally Posted by wrendog

The PHX CCH is such a hideous travesty

Yup. it looks like a cheap imitation of a 1960s era Las Vegas hotel.

[DenverInfill]

The new SLC Hyatt CCH looks nice.

The Denver Hyatt CCH broke ground in 2003, so it's basically a design from two decades ago and definitely has a late '90s look to it. Its best feature is still the block-long glass facade along California Street with views into the lobby, restaurants, and nice streetscaping.

The photo Comrade posted is an oldie. That parking lot at the corner in the foreground was replaced in 2017 with a 20-story Le Meridien. Here's a photo of the Le Meridien with the corner of the CCH on the left:

https://difcdn.denverinfill.com/wp-c...eridien-10.jpg

And across the street from the CCH just past the left edge of Comrade's photo is a new 30-story office tower that opened last year. Here's a photo with the CCH reflecting in the new tower's glass facade from a few blocks away:

https://difcdn.denverinfill.com/wp-c...lock162-08.jpg

Congrats on the new tower!

[bob rulz]

Yeah, the CCH turned out well. As Comrade said, it's not spectacular, but it actually looks like it belongs in an urban setting.

I actually don't mind the Denver one, but the Portland one just looks like a supersized suburban hotel, and the Phoenix one is one of the worst buildings I've ever seen.

[Atlas]

The Denver one isn't bad. There's a bar on the 20th? floor that has a nice city view, which is something that SLC still lacks.

The view from our new CCH's 6th floor restuarant looks pretty nice though: