Salt Lake MSA Development Thread - Page 37

SLC Projects · #**721** Posted **Oct 15, 2008, 6:42 PM**

Even when Earl Holding passes away I'm still not going to get my hopes up on seeing any kind of development on that parking lot any time soon.

SLC Projects · #**722** Posted **Oct 15, 2008, 8:26 PM**

Do you guys remember the "Valley Center Towers" project in Murray on 5300 South?
If not it was a three phase project that would have three office towers. 7,7 and 9-12 stories with a parking garage. Back in 2003 the first tower open at 7-stories. But then the developer ended putting the other phases on hold. Then just last year IHC brought the development to use for doctor office space.
Well I was driving pass that site last night and notice that crews have broken ground on phase two. ( the 2nd 7-story building )
There hasn't been any new renderings that I know of so I'm guessing the 2nd building will look like the first just north of it.
anyways just thought I would share that update.

delts145 · #**723** Posted **Oct 16, 2008, 11:14 AM**

Sandy council members wary of theater funding

By rosemary Winters
The Salt Lake Tribune

SANDY - Some Sandy City Council members would like to drop the curtain on plans to turn a bigger-than-Broadway theater into a public facility.
In the great race between Sandy and Salt Lake City to build Utah's first mega-playhouse - one capable of landing first run blockbusters such as "The Lion King" - Sandy has boasted an edge. The southern Salt Lake Valley suburb has a developer willing to build a 2,700-seat theater as part of a $560 million to $671 million mixed-use project dubbed The Proscenium.
Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan and his administration have offered to buy the $55 million playhouse through a lease-to-own agreement, but the details have yet to be reached.
Salt Lake City's big announcement:
Salt Lake City takes the stage Thursday in the great Broadway-style theater race. At 1:30 p.m., the capital will announce the site of its planned playhouse.
Councilman Stephen Smith said this week that calling the theater privately funded is "just semantics" because Sandy ultimately would be paying off the developer's loan.
Smith backs The Proscenium and the playhouse, but he wants "every [tax] dollar" from the "cash cow" to flow to the city's coffers.
With the economic downturn, he noted, Sandy already is struggling to fund two new community centers and could be weighing a property-tax hike next year to balance the budget.
Councilwoman Linda Martinez Saville also expressed misgivings about using public funds to buy a theater. And Council Chairman Scott Cowdell worried that the council has not been properly informed about Sandy's participation in the mega-theater. He called the playhouse's price tag "staggering."
"I am not convinced it's the right thing to do to put that kind of money into it."
Sandy Economic Development Director Randy Sant has proposed that the city tap an existing redevelopment area and use new property taxes generated by The Proscenium - about $2.4 million a year - to cover a lease of the theater. Sandy would be responsible for hiring Sandy to bolt from county library?

Sandy taxpayers kick in about $3 million a year to Salt Lake County Library Services, but city officials would like to see more facility money spent in Sandy.
Mayor Tom Dolan said his city will start running numbers to see if it would be economically feasible to withdraw from the county system and run its own library.
The preference, he said, would be to stick with the county but move up on the priority list for at least one of two potential projects: an expansion of the Sandy Library, 10100 S. Petunia Way (1405 East), and the addition of a children s library to a community center planned at a former City Hall, 440 E. 8680 South.
The Sandy Library is the county s biggest and busiest, according to the county s Web site.
an operator and, at the end of the lease, the city would own the venue.
"The project doesn't happen without the theater," Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan told the council in pushing the case for public funds.
Developer Curtis Wolthuis, a principal of Orem-based Proscenium Development Inc., said, after this week's meeting, that the show would go on either way. The Proscenium and the theater "still happen," he added, without the city's help.
Even so, a four-member council majority embraced Sandy's theater plan.
The Proscenium "will be huge," Councilman Chris McCandless said. Plans call for three, 30- to 40-story office, condo and hotel towers to sprout near 10000 South and Interstate 15.
He recalled Sandy's decade-old advertising campaign of being the Salt Lake Valley's "other downtown."
"This truly will bring it to pass," he said. "I like the concept. I like the way it's being funded."

related: Sandy to bolt from county library?

Sandy taxpayers kick in about $3 million a year to Salt Lake County Library Services, but city officials would like to see more facility money spent in Sandy.
Mayor Tom Dolan said his city will start running numbers to see if it would be economically feasible to withdraw from the county system and run its own library.
The preference, he said, would be to stick with the county but move up on the priority list for at least one of two potential projects: an expansion of the Sandy Library, 10100 S. Petunia Way (1405 East), and the addition of a children s library to a community center planned at a former City Hall, 440 E. 8680 South.

The Sandy Library is the county s biggest and busiest, according to the county s Web site.

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SLC Projects · #**724** Posted **Oct 16, 2008, 4:30 PM**

I think the " The Proscenium project" should still move forward, but without the theater. That belongs downtown.

TANGELD_SLC · #**725** Posted **Oct 17, 2008, 7:06 AM**

Agreed.

delts145 · #**726** Posted **Oct 17, 2008, 12:41 PM**

Prestigious 'Outside Magazine'

Snowbird/Alta #1

David Whitten... @ davidwhittenphoto.com

Outside magazine heaps praise on Utah skiing

Getting a good view from Hidden Peak at Snowbird, Katie King and Trevor McVey from Moosehead Lake, Maine, enjoy the start of their two week trip, as Snowbird keeps the lifts running while the end of the ski season nears its end following a remarkable snow year. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune)

By Mike Gorrell
The Salt Lake Tribune

The latest national publication to heap praise on Utah skiing is Outside magazine, whose readers picked Alta-Snowbird as the continent's best ski area. Snowbasin placed fifth, Solitude 13th.
Utah's three selections in the top 15 is second to Colorado's five - Vail (third), Silverton Mountain (seventh), Aspen Highlands and Snowmass (eighth), Steamboat (10th) and Telluride (12th). California had two - Squaw Valley (ninth) and Mammoth (11th) - as did British Columbia with Whistler-Blackcomb (second) and Fernie Alpine Resort (sixth). Wyoming (Jackson Hole, 4th), New Mexico (Taos, 15th) and Alaska (Alyeska, 14th) had one apiece. Alyeska is owned by Alta resident John Byrne III.
Snow quality was the most important factor cited by 78 percent of survey respondents to Outside, published monthly with paid circulation in 2008 of 675,000. Hence, Alta-Snowbird's ascent to the top.
"Sitting on the bull's-eye of the Wasatch Range's freakishly powerful storm track . . . AltaBird is the closest you can get to a sure thing," the magazine said. "Learn the ins and outs of the many traverses and hikes [try Alta's Devils Castle and the 'Bird's Thunder Bowl] and you'll ski soft snow on new lines for weeks.
"What both places share, other than a dearth of nightlife, is a lack of pretense. Everyone is here for powder. And they get it," it added. Only 1 percent of respondents, the magazine noted, cared about nightlife.
"We're flattered," said Snowbird President Bob Bonar. Added Alta General Manager Onno Wieringa: "All of us here are proud to be Alta skiers on [the resort's] 70th anniversary. That skiing pride only grows when we combine with Snowbird."
The magazine advised national readers to try Snowbasin on a weekend when Park City is crowded, anticipating they will be impressed by its posh day lodges. Although not as snowy as Alta, "the snow quality [less skier compaction] and the terrain [everything from 2,500-foot treed runs to mellow bowls to hairball chutes] make up for it."
Solitude received recognition for the well-spaced trees of the Headwall Forest and its less-crowded ambience. "The sidecountry feel of Honeycomb Canyon encourages you to hunt your powder over the course of a chill day. Which is followed by a chill night - the two bars shut down at 9:30."

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delts145 · #**727** Posted **Oct 18, 2008, 1:25 PM**

Park City scores open space, "680 acres"

Deal will preserve land near Olympic Sports Park, Round Valley

"People are judging us not just on what we've built, but also on what we've set aside." : Mayor Dana Williams

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10753965

Imagine 800 houses spread over 340 acres in the shadow of the Olympic Sports Park, just south of Kimball Junction.
Now think of it as permanent open space.
Summit County, in conjunction with Park City, has reached "an agreement in principle" with Salt Lake City-based The Boyer Company to purchase land previously owned by Property Reserve Inc., the real estate arm of the LDS Church...

...Park City Mayor Dana Williams praised Richer and Dave Allen, former planning director for Summit County, for putting together the open-space acquisition.
"This is very exciting," he said, "And it's a good example of the city and county working together."
Residents of Park City and Snyderville Basin have voted with their wallets to preserve open space and the quality of life in the resort area, the mayor said.
"People are judging us not just on what we've built, but also on what we've set aside."

related: Big Basin open-space 'coup'

http://www.parkrecord.com/todaysheadlines/ci_10748417

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delts145 · #**728** Posted **Oct 18, 2008, 1:36 PM**

Midvale smelter spot clean, ready to go green

Ex-Superfund site to sport eco-friendly development

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_10752099

Construction has begun at a former Superfund site in Murray. A artist rendering shows some of the 2 million square feet of office and retail space planned at a business park, called View 72. (Courtesy Commerce CRG)

MIDVALE - An industrial site once fouled with arsenic, lead and heavy metals is being turned into environmentally friendly offices, apartments, eateries, walking trails and green spaces.
The 200-acre site at 7200 South and stretching from 700 West to the Jordan River, is one of the last large-scale, new developments located dead center in Salt Lake Valley...

The mixed-use development site called View 72 at 7200 South and 700West, is a former 100-acre superfund site and has been cleaned up. Construction is now underway for office buildings and 1,200 apartments on 2 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space, one of the largestoffice and mixed use parks in Utah and the largest ever in Midvale. (Leah Hogsten/ The Salt Lake Tribune)

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delts145 · #**729** Posted **Oct 18, 2008, 2:00 PM**

Mervyns says it will liquidate all stores

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_10747206

NEW YORK - Ailing department store chain Mervyns LLC, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July, said Friday that it plans to begin liquidation sales at its remaining 149 stores and wind down its business.
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SLC Projects · #**730** Posted **Oct 18, 2008, 4:21 PM**

I don't like Mervyns, ever since they turn their backs on downtown and left a few years while the other stores such as Nordstrom's stuck it out to wait to see what the church would do with those two downtown blocks. ( Now the CCC )
I hope Mervyns are kicking them selfs now knowing they could of been apart of the city creek center.

urbanboy · #**731** Posted **Oct 18, 2008, 10:21 PM**

Mervin's has always been pretty trashy. I'm glad they will not be included in the City Creek Center. That would have been worse than Dillard's

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Originally Posted by delts145

Midvale smelter spot clean, ready to go green

Ex-Superfund site to sport eco-friendly development

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_10752099

Construction has begun at a former Superfund site in Murray. A artist rendering shows some of the 2 million square feet of office and retail space planned at a business park, called View 72. (Courtesy Commerce CRG)

MIDVALE - An industrial site once fouled with arsenic, lead and heavy metals is being turned into environmentally friendly offices, apartments, eateries, walking trails and green spaces.
The 200-acre site at 7200 South and stretching from 700 West to the Jordan River, is one of the last large-scale, new developments located dead center in Salt Lake Valley...

The mixed-use development site called View 72 at 7200 South and 700West, is a former 100-acre superfund site and has been cleaned up. Construction is now underway for office buildings and 1,200 apartments on 2 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space, one of the largestoffice and mixed use parks in Utah and the largest ever in Midvale. (Leah Hogsten/ The Salt Lake Tribune)

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An office park?! This isn't green development. Sure the buildings may be efficient, and it might be better than a brownfield, but the design will just induce driving, pollution, human separation, class distinction, and more social problems. Couldn't they place the buildings closer together, therefore using the land more efficiently and preserving open space? The mix of uses is great, however, the placement is really bad!

delts145 · #**732** Posted **Oct 20, 2008, 10:32 AM**

Holes in the ground - Construction projects taking a slower pace, hurt by economic downturn

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,514...7,00.html?pg=2

Art By Duany Plater - Zyberk & Co.

HOLLADAY — At the former Cottonwood Mall, the building that houses Macy's stands like an island amid a sea of dirt.
The development is moving along but at a slower pace than originally anticipated, as the national economy has declined and tightened credit markets.

Across town in Sugar House is a giant landscaped hole in the ground. Historic buildings that hugged the corner of 2100 South and Highland Drive were demolished last winter, but building has not yet begun and is on indefinite hold.

With the exception of South Towne Center, every major retail complex in the Salt Lake Valley is undergoing reconstruction. Developers have promised beautiful new "lifestyle centers" that combine office, residential and retail space similar to The Gateway.

But with the economy's crash, loans have become tough for developers to obtain. Retailers that only months ago were in expansion mode have become reticent about signing long-term leases in new developments...

Customers leaving the Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City must pass by construction equipment used in the expansion and renovation of the stores. (Kristin Murphy, 'Deseret News)

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delts145 · #**733** Posted **Oct 22, 2008, 12:46 PM**

Sandy approves skyscraper plan

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10781351

The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 10/22/2008 12:04:40 AM MDT

A planned Sandy skyscraper can climb to 560 feet - and have an architectural spire that soars to 852 feet above street level.

Sandy's Planning Commission has approved the height and architectural design of the first phase of The Proscenium, a 2.3 million square-foot project envisioned near 10000 South and Interstate 15.

Sandy created a special arts-and-culture zone to accommodate the project and allow heights beyond the city's 140-foot cap. To score the additional height, The Proscenium had to carry multiple uses, including office, entertainment, residential and hotel, and a regional arts facility. The developer plans a $55 million, 2,700-seat Broadway-style playhouse.

Currently, Utah's tallest structure, the LDS Church Office Building, is 435 feet.
- Rosemary Winters

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SLC Projects · #**734** Posted **Oct 24, 2008, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

Well I was driving pass that site last night and notice that crews have broken ground on phase two. ( the 2nd 7-story building )
There hasn't been any new renderings that I know of so I'm guessing the 2nd building will look like the first just north of it.
anyways just thought I would share that update.

I was wrong. I went by there today to get a closer look and it's just a damn parking lot expansion. Nothing more.

Cheap, cheap, cheap.

ski_steve · #**735** Posted **Oct 26, 2008, 4:21 AM**

Sandy RDA may fund Proscenium theater

By Lynne Wilde II
Deseret News

SANDY — Funding for the theater in the Proscenium may come from Sandy's Redevelopment Agency.

The more than $500 million project proposal states that the Proscenium would be built with private money, "not with taxpayer dollars."

According to Trina Duerkson, spokeswoman for Sandy, the developer had the idea for condos, a hotel and retail and restaurant spaces as part of the original project. The developer then approached Sandy officials to see if they were interested in financing the 2,400-seat theater.

"If the theater won't go, the whole project won't go," she said.

When Proscenium is in operation, it is estimated it will create more than 4,500 jobs, which will generate $150.3 million in consumer expenditures per year. It will also generate 435 new households with earnings of $49.6 million annually, according to the presentation.

http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705257940,00.html

wrendog · #**736** Posted **Oct 26, 2008, 3:05 PM**

"If the theater won't go, the whole project won't go," she said.

With the SLC announcement, that means the proscenium is a no go.

Orlando · #**737** Posted **Oct 26, 2008, 5:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by wrendog

"If the theater won't go, the whole project won't go," she said.

With the SLC announcement, that means the proscenium is a no go.

Yeah!

Let's hope Salt Lake buries this project.

Future Mayor · #**738** Posted **Oct 27, 2008, 12:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by wrendog

"If the theater won't go, the whole project won't go," she said.

That statement right there is what is entirely wrong with the project. A 2,400 seat theater won't have the draw to make a $500 million project successful. The theater belongs downtown because it is plain and simply another piece of a vibrant and growing downtown, it is not "The Piece" that entirely makes downtown.

SLC Projects · #**739** Posted **Oct 27, 2008, 8:11 PM**

I don't remember there being two 9-story buildings in Murray.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/s...t=2&ht=2&sro=0

5300 South State Street
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu?id=5...-murray-ut-usa

Intermountain Medical Office Building
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu?id=i...-murray-ut-usa

Both are in the same area. Around 5300 and state. I know all about the 9-story Intermountain Medical Office Building that is getting built. But not sure what the 5300 South and State is. Same Building?

It must be since on 5300 and state there's the Costco, Murray high, a u-haul building and a I-hop on those corners.

arkhitektor · #**740** Posted **Oct 27, 2008, 9:13 PM**

Emporis isn't an authority on anything and much of the information on their site is wrong. I wouldn't trust their figures.

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

I don't remember there being two 9-story buildings in Murray.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/s...t=2&ht=2&sro=0

5300 South State Street
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu?id=5...-murray-ut-usa

Intermountain Medical Office Building
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu?id=i...-murray-ut-usa

Both are in the same area. Around 5300 and state. I know all about the 9-story Intermountain Medical Office Building that is getting built. But not sure what the 5300 South and State is. Same Building?

It must be since on 5300 and state there's the Costco, Murray high, a u-haul building and a I-hop on those corners.