Salt Lake MSA Development Thread

[SLC Projects]

I drive pass this everyday on my way to or from work. It's on redwood road and around 6300 South in Taylorsvile. For what it looks like I'm guessing this building will be a Office building of some kind. So far it looks to be at least 3-stories, but it might get taller. These are some big beams.










This is a good infill for this kind of area since this building is going in between two other buildings and that this site used to be a parking lot. Also I like how it looks like this building will go right up to the side of the street and that the parking will be behind it. 3-stories might not be that big of a deal, but for that area this building will stick out. I hope what ever it is it will have a good design.

Does anyone know anything about this project? Or has anyone else from this area notice it also?

[ragerdude]

Projects, that is Nelson Laboratories property (the building to the north and adjacent parking lot) I interviewed with them over the summer. I remember hearing something about a new fitness facility and expanded lab space for their rapidly growing business.

[delts145]

Thanks Ragerdude for the I.D. on that. Here's a couple of links and blurbs on Nelson labs to further explain what's going on in Salt Lake Project's pics.

Nelson Laboratories Breaks Ground On New Building

https://www.nelsonlabs.com/docs/nli_groundbreaking.pdf


Nov. 14, 2008 - Nelson Laboratories to add 350 jobs in Utah


Nelson Laboratories will add more than 350 new full-time jobs over the next decade as it expands its operations in Taylorsville.

The company announced the expansion Thursday, after the Governor's Office of Economic Development Board awarded the company a tax credit of nearly $2 million for the project.

"Our decision to further expand our testing capabilities in Utah is based on our ability to access world-class talent, as well as the important partnerships we have developed in the state," Jeff Nelson, president and chief executive officer of Nelson Laboratories, said in a prepared statement.

The facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2009.

The company is a contract laboratory with clients in the medical- device, pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical, dietary-supplement and tissue industries. It opened in 1985 in Research Park near the University of Utah with five employees and 40 tests and now offers more than 400 microbiological and analytical tests.

The company moved to Taylorsville in 1994, when it opened a 62,000-square-foot facility that maintains 80 labs and a 3,000- square-foot clean room. The company serves more than 4,000 clients in 56 countries from that site, which has more than 320 scientists and staff.

"The new facility, the new operations, will allow them to expand their services, provide for more labs and hopefully expand their operations here," said Jerry Oldroyd, chairman of the GOED board's incentives committee.

GOED board chairman Ragula Bhaskar described Nelson as "recession- proof" and employing many high-quality people trained with technical skills.

Perry said the board has "been trying very hard over the last little while to take care of our own and grow our own," and Nelson Laboratories "is another good example of a great Utah company growing here in Utah."

Nelson said the governor's office, the Utah Technology Council, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and the Economic Development Corp. of Utah "have prioritized the growth of our industry through the development of policy that works to ensure that Utah companies can grow in the state and that our industry is recognized as one of the leading life-sciences clusters in the nation."

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[SLC Projects]

Thanks ragerdude and delts for that info.

[delts145]

Hey, Thankyou Projects for bringing to the forums attention.

[delts145]

Water park could be soccer stadium's new neighbor - Council OKs giving developer $15M in tax incentives for the building of the project.

By Rosemary Winters
The Salt Lake Tribune

Sandy » Two hotels and a theme, water park could sprout next to Rio Tinto Stadium in a couple years.

On Tuesday, Sandy City Council gave its OK to plans to offer a developer up to $15 million in tax incentives for building such a project on 6.5 acres Real Salt Lake owns to the north of its stadium at 9256 S. State Street.

The developer -- whose name has not been released -- has presented Sandy with a feasibility that concluded two, 125-room hotels, a 40,000-square-foot indoor water park and 15,000 square feet of retail and restaurants could be successful on the site, a former Ardell Brown RV center.

"Could we build more hotels [in Sandy]? The answer is yes," said the city's Economic Development Director Randy Sant. He also cited hotel statistics that showed, despite the economic slowdown, occupancy rates in the southern Salt Lake Valley have dropped only 3 percent from last year to 68 percent.

Sant insisted "all of the private financing" for the roughly $75 million project would have to be in place before Sandy would "throw one dollar into the pot."

The city's Redevelopment Agency would use the existing Community Development Area around the stadium to channel new property taxes hatched by the hotel/ water park development into the project. Already, Sandy has used the CDA to bond for a $10 million property-tax incentive that went to RSL's $110 million stadium.

With the new project, the city would not bond for the total amount up front, but would instead reimburse the developer, year by year, as property taxes came in, Sant said.

The up to $15 million incentive would cover infrastructure, as much as $1.5 million of the land purchase and a parking terrace. A parking structure would help RSL meet a condition of its public funding package: an additional 1,000 parking stalls within a five-minute walk of the stadium in the next two years.

City Councilman Chris McCandless praised the project as a mechanism for bringing new jobs to Sandy.

"We have a significant downturn in the economy, and I think creating jobs in the community is of the highest importance."

Although Sant would not release the name of the developer, he did disclose that international architectural firm Rosetti, which designed the soccer stadium, has been retained for early design work. Renderings show a pedestrian plaza connecting the two hotels with the stadium.

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[delts145]

Originally Posted by wrendog

Umm, I'm a big fan of soccer and RSL, but to say that we need extra hotels for all the people visiting from out of state to watch a game is a bit much.

Yeah, for the sole purpose of watching a game would probably be a bit much. I think though that the article in this morning's paper points out an interesting development for Sandy as the base camp for the ever increasing popularity of the Cottonwood Canyons.

Sandy pitched as 'ultimate base camp'
Tourism » Joint marketing effort between the city and the ski resorts aims to get word to out-of-state skiers.

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_11188843


Love Communications A Utah Office of Tourism matching grant is helping pay for ads in ski magazines promoting Snowbird, Alta and Sandy as affordable places for for skiing and boarding vacations.

...Snowbird marketing director Dave Fields said that with limited housing in the canyons, Sandy and other south valley communities are essential to support the resort's work force.

And with new Hyatt and Hilton hotels joining a cluster of lodging establishments offering views up the canyon's glacier-carved 'V,' Fields said "we put together a program for marketing to out-of-state skiers. The idea is you can get an affordable package and still have a really fun ski trip..."

...The concept was a "perfect fit" for state assistance, said Tourism Office managing director Leigh von der Esch. "With the new hotels coming on line, they will be very popular for people looking for value and who want to zip right up the canyons. Those flying from an hour away can drop their bags at the hotel and be skiing in the afternoon."

Off-season, she added, "tour operators love putting people into 'value' hotels and having them jump on a shuttle to go up the canyons..."

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[DMTower]

^^^ Cottonwood Heights seems like a much better "base camp" than Sandy... the city sits right up against the base of both canyons.

[delts145]

I was thinking the same thing DMTower. Also, isn't there allot of resistance by the Cottonwood Height's residents, up in that area so close to the canyon mouth?

[Future Mayor]

The only issue I can think of in Cottonwood Heights is that there isn't a whole lot of property available for hotel development. The obvious choice would be to build a hotel on the former Racket Club property, which Snowbird owns. The Old Mill area is pretty much build out, it's unfortunate that they didn't build the hotels in that area larger, but then again they probably built them to maximize the demand at the time they were built and projected a few years into the future.

It would be great if the Old Mill itself could someone be retro fitted into a boutique style hotel.

[delts145]

I've often thought that a sizable hotel could do fairly well at the Fashion Place sight. Something that would be incorporated into the mall itself. This would be especially nice now that the Mall is being completely overhauled.

It's a very close and convenient jaunt to the Cottonwood Canyons from that location.

[cololi]

Originally Posted by Future Mayor

The only issue I can think of in Cottonwood Heights is that there isn't a whole lot of property available for hotel development. The obvious choice would be to build a hotel on the former Racket Club property, which Snowbird owns. The Old Mill area is pretty much build out, it's unfortunate that they didn't build the hotels in that area larger, but then again they probably built them to maximize the demand at the time they were built and projected a few years into the future.

It would be great if the Old Mill itself could someone be retro fitted into a boutique style hotel.

The majority of the remaining gravel pit is owned by a development company and will be developed in the next 10 years or so. The old racket club property I believe was sold by snowbird and owned by a developer now. Maybe it is an entity of one of Dick Bass' companies. The initially concept for the property did plan on a "lifestyle center" including hotels. I think the City did rezone the property, despite the residents opposition to it. I think you will see some 4-5 story hotels in the area. I pretty much think the Old Mill office park has a terrible site plan. It is only accessible by vehicle. Any sort of development along Wasatch Drive will be auto oriented as well. I do think the scale of development is appropriate and don't beleive it is appropriate to increase the scale, particularly building height, in that area.

[delts145]

General Metro - Tribune Feature
Morgan: Growing up without growing out

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11199199?IA...www.sltrib.com



By Brandon Loomis
The Salt Lake Tribune

Morgan » No offense, Riverdale, but Morgan County wants to get off the road that leads to your big-box brand of suburbia.

Same for your glitz and glam, Park City. Morgan is an up-and-coming mountain hub that soon will be the fastest-growing county in Utah, but its residents don't want their kids pushed out by million-dollar mortgages.



Heber City's mix of mountain destinations, hay flats and Main Street milkshakes is more like it, according to Envision Utah planners who worked with Morgan residents to dream up their future.

"If nothing is done, we would wake up probably 30 years from now and, in a lot of areas, we'd look just like the Wasatch Front: You can't tell where one city ends and another begins..."


With developments such as The Cottonwoods, Mountain Green and other Morgan County hamlets are fueling growth that is projected to make Morgan County the fastest-growing county in the next half-century. (Chris Detrick / The Salt Lake Tribune)


As Morgan County grows, county officials hope to channel the growth into rural hamlets, rather than allow unrestricted building across the countryside. Morgan County is expected to add population at 3.8 percent a year for the next half century. (Brandon Loomis / The Salt Lake Tribune)



What's Envision Morgan?

The statewide nonprofit planning partnership Envision Utah spun off a Morgan consensus-seeking project this year, and most county residents favored concentrating growth in town centers while protecting farmlands and hillsides. Now it's up to the Morgan County Council to decide whether to turn that guidance into a new zoning ordinance and preservation tools such as allowing developers to pay farmers for development rights while clustering the resulting homes in town.

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[Viperlord]

Cottonwood Mall developer nearly bankrupt?

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_11220169

General Growth Properties Inc., the company redeveloping the demolished Cottonwood Mall in Holladay, and owner of five other Utah malls, is trying to stave off bankruptcy by negotiating an extension on $900 million in debt.

[wrendog]

Looks like the USA Mexico World Cup qualifier will be at Rio Tinto stadium on February 11th. This is big time, fellers!

[i-215]

Originally Posted by wrendog

Looks like the USA Mexico World Cup qualifier will be at Rio Tinto stadium on February 11th. This is big time, fellers!

Do you think we'll ever see Real Salt Lake in the World Cup sometime in our lifetimes?

[SLC Projects]

Originally Posted by wrendog

Looks like the USA Mexico World Cup qualifier will be at Rio Tinto stadium on February 11th. This is big time, fellers!

Still think there is no need for a hotel there?

[delts145]

I think it's pretty obvious that there's a need and I think attractive bottom line for the hotel business in that vicinity. What impresses me is that there is not only a successful flow of out-of-towners for the MLS, but also a large contingent of business people and an especially large crowd of skiers.

[MetroFanatic]

Originally Posted by wrendog

Looks like the USA Mexico World Cup qualifier will be at Rio Tinto stadium on February 11th. This is big time, fellers!

Hopefully it doesn't snow the night before.

[delts145]

Two Mervyns sites in Utah to reopen as Forever 21s, Kohl's

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705270148,00.html

...Macerich said Friday that Forever 21 will replace Mervyns at the South Towne Center in Sandy and that Kohl's would replace Mervyns at the Brickyard Plaza in Salt Lake City...

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