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Downtown - City Creek Center Update - T-Mac

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Here is the rest of the City Creek Center.

T-Mac

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222 So. Main Updates - T-Mac

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Down at the site this morning. Met two guys down there who are with the company that is going to spray the side walls this week. They said that they are to start on Monday and it will take them about 5 days to get it finished. The people putting up the backing were running into problems with the walls pushing out and they had to bring in the machine to drive more tie-backs in the north wall to hold it back and keep it from bulging out. Also, you can say good-bye to the 2 trees in front of the site as they should be getting cut down any day now. Here are the photos.







These are the guys that are with the company that is doing the side-walls.

T-Mac

[SLC Projects]

Thank you T-Mac. I always enjoy your updates. Keep it up.

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Downtown - Moving An Historical Gem

Move of old, big Odd Fellows building risky

By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune

After sitting for 117 years in the same spot, the Odd Fellows Hall might have a few aches and pains when it moves to make way for a new federal courthouse this summer.
There's no guarantee the historic building will still be in one piece after its trip across Market Street in downtown Salt Lake City. After all, it's old, big, heavy and already crumbling in spots. The structure will also have to make a 180-degree turn, a difficult move considering its age.
"There's potential that this building may come down even after all we've done," said Alan Rindlisbacher, director of corporate marketing for Sandy-based Layton Construction, the company hired to handle the move.
But the If you are having trouble, download the Flash® player.movers are doing their best to make sure the 48-foot tall, 3,000-ton hall has a safe journey, which probably will take place in June. They're spending up to three months getting ready for the weeklong trip, which will move at an excruciatingly slow pace.
"You don't want a whole lot of movement," Rindlisbacher said. "We move inches at a time."
Restoration work will take a few months and the building probably will end up in better shape than it is now, Rindlisbacher said. The General Services Administration (GSA), the federal agency in charge of government property, is paying $5.9 million for the move.
The move, as well as the planned purchase of the Shubrick Building, will open up space just west of the Frank E. Moss U.S. Courthouse at 350 S. Main St. for a new courthouse.
The transit will begin with workers jacking up the building, digging out under the foundation and placing 55 dollies underneath. The hall will be rolled a little to the west, then rotated 180 degrees. After the old foundation is filled in, it will be moved back to its original location.
Next comes a move across Market Street and, finally, a step east to its destination, catty-corner from its former location. The dollies will be operated by a master hydraulic control unit that will synchronize their movement. Restaurants on Market Street will remain open.
Emmert International, based in Clackamas, Ore., is providing the machinery for the move. Rick Albrecht, a supervisor with the company, said Emmert has moved big buildings before but this job is unusual because of the age and size of the hall.
However, the move is doable, he said.
"It's all preparation," Albrecht said. "Our company usually moves something everyone else shies away from."
In addition to the Odd Fellows, the hall has been home to various offices and restaurants. The GSA plans to sell the hall after the move.
If all goes as planned and Congress allocates construction money in fiscal year 2009, the new courthouse would open for business in April 2012, according to the GSA.
The building will have 368,446 square feet and the final project cost is expected to be between $200 million and $250 million. The old courthouse - which does not allow prisoners, judges and the public to be routed down separate corridors as a safety measure - is scheduled to be modernized once the new building is up and will house the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and U.S. attorneys.



Ernie Omaha, left, and Lyle Goodrich, with Harv and Higam Masonry in Draper, assess the progress as workers cover the holes where the windows were with cinder block in preparation for the move. At left, a view of the new location from the building's current spot. Movers are doing their best to make sure the 48-foot-tall, 3,000-ton hall has a safe journey, which probably will take place in June. They're spending up to three months getting ready for the weeklong trip. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune )


The view of the new location (center) looking north from... (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune )

Very Cool Diagram LINK:Click this link below and scroll down to Moving Odd Fellows Hall:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9079760?source=rss



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City Creek

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Little update from today. They were pouring columns for the next level on the parking garage on the Crossroads block. These columns are on level 3.


Rebar cages waiting to be hoisted into place on the parking deck.



More concrete being poured on the Tower 6 & 7 site.



More steel in place on the south side of Key Bank tower.



Tower 1 moving very fast.

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Forbes: Salt Lake City and America's 9 other most recession proof cities, In Depth

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/29/cit...hisSpeed=20000


Jason Mathis/ SLC Convention & Visitors Bureau

#6 Salt Lake City, Utah

6. Salt Lake City, Utah
Median home price: +2.5%

Unemployment: 3.1% (from 2.6%)

Key growth: Education and health services, +5.5%

Though Salt Lake City's unemployment rate is rising, it's still among the lowest of the country's 50 largest cities (Washington, D.C., is second, but declining home prices kept it off our list). The state is still creating jobs, just not as quickly as its labor force is growing. A November 2007 report from the U.S. Conference of Mayors projected that Salt Lake City would be one of the few large cities in the country not to suffer a decline in gross metropolitan product from the mortgage crisis.

Related Story: Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_9127131

Forbes, In Depth: 10 Best Cities For Commuters

Originally Posted by arkhitektor

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/24/cit...ealestate.html

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Revitalization

Crumbling downtown thrills shoe shop owner


Longtime businessman has advocated for the rejuvenation of the city's center for 15 years

By Dan Verper
Close-Up Correspondent
Salt Lake Tribune


"Mr. Downtown," Richard Wirick, stands outside the Oxford Shop, his shoe shop in downtown Salt Lake City. Cranes are plentiful near his shop and foot traffic is sparse, but the redevelopment activity thrills Wirick. (Dan Vesper/Close-Up Correspondent )

Downtown is rubble.
Construction cranes are nearly as common as office buildings. Most wouldn't consider it a shopper's paradise.
But Richard Wirick, owner of The Oxford Shop, a mens' shoe store in the heart of it all, couldn't be happier.
"This is virtually one of the most wonderful things that has ever happened," Wirick said.
A prominent member of several civic organizations, for years Wirick has petitioned City Hall for just this sort of development. He says it's crucial in fostering small businesses, that are like his, downtown.
He has his work cut out for him. Despite or perhaps because of development, the city center remains rife with empty storefronts.
Across the street from The Oxford Shop, two mighty cranes hover high above what used to be Crossroads Mall. Once a source of foot traffic in the area, the site is now a massive hole.
Clearly, the construction affect's the shoe store's business. The frequency of passersby is not what it once was.
Still, Wirick is optimistic about the development and said The Oxford Shop is on one of the few blocks downtown without an empty storefront. "Right now, things are dead, but this block is a success story," Wirick said.
He should know.
The 78-year-old has been in business for nearly 60 years and devoted his
life to revitalizing the city center. So much so in fact, he has earned the nickname "Mr. Downtown." There's even a plaque to prove it.
The plaque is from the Vest Pocket Business Coalition - one of the many civic organizations in which Wirick claims membership.
Wirick has advocated the revitalization of downtown for 15 years.
"It may sound funny to you, but I didn't blossom until I was about 70, I guess you might call me a late bloomer," Wirick said. "That's the age a lot of people become rocking chairs."
And blossom he did. Since he hit 70, Wirick has been a member of no fewer than three civic organizations and often serves as a board member.
Wirick is concerned that the Art and Cultural Center of Utah could be built in Sandy, instead of, you guessed it, downtown.
Wirick doesn't seem too worried though. He is known as "the heart and 'sole' of optimism."
Perhaps it is because of his cheerful worldview that Wirick has been able to forge relationships with former mayors Deedee Corradini and Rocky Anderson. (He proudly displays photos of himself and the mayors in his shop.)
Wirick says revitalizing downtown is the most important part of his professional life. He promises he'll never retire at the Oxford Shop; it's a requirement that he owns a business in order to retain membership in the civic organizations.
"They'll have to take me out feet first," Wirick said. "It's my life."

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[RFPCME]

T-Mac: Thanks for the pictures. I see "steeeeel" in some of those picture, so of it pointed skyward. It's a beautiful thing!

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A special place - The Bountiful Tabernacle has withstood time's trials
to be the state's oldest LDS chapel in continual use

By Janine S. Creager
Close-Up Correspondent


The Bountiful Tabernacle was dedicated in 1863, and has served as a place of worship since.

BOUNTIFUL - Off Main Street in Bountiful stands the stately Bountiful Tabernacle, dedicated in 1863, that served early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Now, more than 145 years later, the meetinghouse has the distinction of being the oldest LDS chapel in continuous use in Utah.
But such an honor has not come without challenges and trials, which started just a few months after its February 1857 groundbreaking. Yet through it all, the edifice has remained a place of worship and gathering for generations of LDS faithful.


Right, a chandelier reflects pioneer handiwork. (Janine S. Creager/Close-Up Correspondent )

In July 1857, when the approach of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston's Army threatened Utah, saints - as members of the LDS Church call themselves - in early Bountiful were told to leave everything and go south.
The Tabernacle foundation was filled in with storage wheat and covered over. The building was preserved as the Army passed to the west of the city, and members returned the following year to resume construction.
In 1906, an infamous Davis County east wind destroyed the building's spires and they would not be replaced until 1941. And then in the mid 1970s, the building was destined for the wrecking ball, because of the aging of the original chapel, and an area increase in church membership.
But thanks to the efforts of local and general church leaders, the Tabernacle survived to receive a face-lift and remodel, restoring it to much of its original charm and character.
Additional renovations in the years since include earthquake proofing, in which steel plates were placed across wooden beams to keep them securely in place. But even with modern architectural upgrades, handcrafted wooden pegs driven into planed cedar logs are still visible in the rafters above the chapel.
Bountiful resident Marilyn Beesley Goodrich has spent many years attending Church meetings in the Tabernacle since her family moved to the area in 1933 when she was 5.


Above, hand-crafted wooden pegs still can be seen in the rafters of the Bountiful Tabernacle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. (Janine S. Creager/Close-Up Correspondent )

"I remember being baptized in the basement," she says. The font she mentions has long since been moved to a more convenient location in the building. Also it was there in the Tabernacle that Goodrich caught her first glimpse of a handsome young Glenn Goodrich, who would later be her husband and the father to their 12 children.
Dolores Adamson Simons, now of Weiser, Idaho, recalls being asked to sing for a church program in the early 1950s. Since she was to represent a heavenly voice from on high, she was placed in the organ loft behind the choir seats, unseen to those sitting in the chapel. Unable to see the conductor herself from her perch, she peered out through the organ pipes, precariously balanced on wooden beams, listening for her musical cue to project her unseen, angelic voice to the congregation.
Other memories of the Bountiful Tabernacle through the years could fill volumes. Whether the miraculous (the time the chapel ceiling collapsed in 1993 but the lives of churchgoers were spared because it happened in the middle of the night) or the mischievous (a young child who broke his arm after falling from the balcony), the Bountiful Tabernacle remains to this day a testament to the pioneer spirit and labor which brought the building to life nearly a century and half ago.

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Downtown - Updates - Broadway Park Lofts & Bridges at Citifront by T-Mac

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Updated photos from today.

Bridges at Citifront








Broadway Park Lofts

Finally, a very busy site with noticeable progress.

T-Mac

[ski_steve]

Its exciting to see the Gateway District be revitalized. I hope the area become a really trendy place soon, but keeping with the character of the neighborhood. Thanks for the updates T-Mac

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Downtown Updates - Social Hall Block - Z.C.M.I. Block - Crossroads Block by T-Mac

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Social Hall Block

Originally Posted by T-Mac

ZCMI Block

Funny what you can see walking down Regent Street. Big D is doing the Key Bank tower food court and remodel. They have set-up office there as well as Jacobsen Construction. They had a spreadsheet timeline sitting on one of the desks and from what I could see, they are trying to finish up the tower by early July for the rough in's and then the food court would wrap up later this year. If this is the case, we should start seeing glass in the next month or so.



Now we know what the ramp is for.




New swimming pools at the City Creek Center. LOL

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Crossroads Block





















Tower 1

T-Mac

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Downtown Updates - 222 So. Main by T-Mac

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Photos from this morning. While at the site, I asked about the steel and the guy I spoke with said that he spoke with the crane operator this morning about it and that he was told it is starting very soon. I would think that we could see some steel starting this week. Keep your fingers crossed.



Here's the west wall of the project.










Sidewalls wrapping up shortly. They are looking very nice. Turning out better than I had imagined.

T-Mac

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Downtown - Capitol Project - Pics by gbb


Spectacular Olmstead Gardens, which were originally planned to surround the State Capitol are resurrected and under implementation.

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Thanks for all those pics T-mac! Hey has anybody heard anything about the 415-ft condo tower that's supposed to be getting built? Cuz I haven't. Did it get axed?

Oh and I have an idea for a great skyline addition: A slender glass/concrete/steel-clad 1,000+ ft multi-use tower that's somewhat pyramidic, whose roof is double-peaked to evoke the look of Twin Peaks.

I'd put it somewhere on 600 south.
SOMEBODY needs to build it! Any takers?

[RFPCME]

T-Mac: Thanks again for sharing you pics of and your insights to the current CBD development projects.

An open question to the readers of this forum...just letting your minds run wild and considering the current bursting economy in SLC and much more poised for the future, where would a square-block, mixed-used, mega-development close to the CBD go? (in the hope that some far-sighted thinking would prevent such a development being spread out in the county and adding to the suburban sprawl).
You could call it the Energy Center or Aerospace Place or Cyber Commons or anything else that reflects the economic engines that are going to drive the skyline ever higher. A better question is: What might that block look like?

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^^^
At first I thought, well...... put some more height in the 200 to 300 south area. Then I thought, hmmmm.... Why not put something like that between 21st and 900 so. I would like to start to fill in that whole slate between Market Station and Sears. Alot of blocks in there which need redeveloping.

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I'm all for the entire Sears block, the Holding parking lot or the block south of Little or Grand America.

[SLC Projects]

I agree with the Holding Block. Also I always felt that Main street needs to be more develop South of Grand America. I would love to see some new highrise south of the Grand America Hotel.
But maybe we should just fill in the skyline before moving south.

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222 South Main - Today's Update

Originally Posted by psychokiller

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Very nice updates. I can't wait to get down there for my weekly photos. I am going down there Friday evening to grab some shots this time. Quite the changes in a week.

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