Provo MSA Development Thread - Page 66

delts145 · #**1301** Posted **Nov 8, 2008, 1:07 PM**

More setbacks for proposed Utah Lake Bridge

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/287675/17/

Public funding will likely be cut for the Utah Lake causeway but a private group may be interested in pursuing the project.

delts145 · #**1302** Posted **Nov 8, 2008, 1:14 PM**

UDOT will use new interchange in American Fork

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/287674/

...The design is relatively new for the U.S., though they have been using this interchange technology in Europe...
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RFPCME · #**1303** Posted **Nov 9, 2008, 3:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by delts145

LOL, Ya know, that's probably true. I think Highland probably has the largest collection of kids per capita under the age of ten, so you're probably right.

Anyway, for those who might be interested in the building itself. The beige you see in the pic is not stucco. It's actually a very fine, cut stone.

Delts: Cut stone? Really? I hope so. Nice to see that someone is actually putting money into pubic buildings. One of my pet peeve's is the crappy public buildings that have been built for the last 40 years or so. Some how we got off track and started figuring that if we skimped on public buildings, we could save the tax payers money. Horse hockey! We build under-sized, cheap crap that we all have to stare at for 30 or 40 years, then can't wait to knock down because they non-functional eyesores. If we did it right in the first place, we would all have something to be proud about, would last a least twice as long, would be much more serviceable, and wouldn't hurt our eyes when we looked at them. The Borg Cube in SLC in another example of a cheap, probably disfunctional, eyesore in the making.

delts145 · #**1304** Posted **Nov 9, 2008, 12:39 PM**

Yeah, I think they acquired a portion of the same stone lot that is being used on the new Draper LDS Temple and the new Records Library Downtown.

delts145 · #**1305** Posted **Nov 9, 2008, 1:02 PM**

A toll cause way across Utah Lake?

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705261709,00.html

...A private venture such as Utah Crossing Inc. could be interested in building a toll causeway across Utah Lake if the state can straighten out rules for required environmental studies.

urbanboy · #**1306** Posted **Nov 9, 2008, 8:11 PM**

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Local boaters, hunters and environmental advocates have opposed a bridge or causeway. The Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club says the idea should be scrapped altogether, calling it a land development scheme that would forever mar the lake's ecosystem.

You bet it is a development scheme!!!!

I don't feel one bit sorry for the commuter, they chose to live way out there!

delts145 · #**1307** Posted **Nov 12, 2008, 1:15 PM**

$2.6 billion rebuild set for I-15 in Utah County - 2 east-west roads and interchange included

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705262391,00.html

by Ken Lund http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...ah%2Bcounty%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

The Utah Department of Transportation is gearing up for a massive, $2.6 billion reconstruction project involving 20 miles of I-15 in Utah County...

With 20 percent of the state's population, Utah County is expected to grow at a faster rate than other parts of the state...

Reconstruction will result in additional travel lanes along I-15, plus the rebuilding or modification of 11 freeway interchanges and the replacing of 55 aging bridges.

Ten years ago, when I-15 in Salt lake County was reconstructed for the 2002 Olympics, UDOT first widened portions of I215 and Redwood Road. "A part of it is providing alternative options,"...

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delts145 · #**1308** Posted **Nov 12, 2008, 2:13 PM**

Freeway interchange design brings French flair to Lehi/Am. Fork

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10961061

Highway engineers soon will introduce Utah motorists to a French connection - an innovative interchange that, for the span of a freeway bridge, will mean driving on the left side of the road...

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delts145 · #**1309** Posted **Nov 13, 2008, 3:45 PM**

Financers get extra month on Orem project

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705262560,00.html

Orem - The banks involved in financing the Midtown Village will have an additional month to meet and consider their options on completion of the project...

Pics by Swilsomnc http://flickr.com/photos/swilsonmc/1886043659/sizes/o/in/set-72157601204122449/

Midtown Related:

Clearfield Midtown project files Ch.11

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/287879/

While I like the building arrangements of the Clearfield and Orem Midtowns, I am seriously uneasy about the design finish and materials treatment that they would apply. I think they are very unattractive and in poor taste, particularly for a project that is suppose to be upscale. I think these developers have shown a lack of judgement on many levels.

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RFPCME · #**1310** Posted **Nov 14, 2008, 4:11 AM**

Any rumblings from anywhere concerning The Point? I've been searching the internet tonight and cannot find anything since a post over on the Gehry project thread. It's been 6 weeks and not a peep from anywhere. A lot has happened in those 6 weeks as well.

i-215 · #**1311** Posted **Nov 16, 2008, 11:37 PM**

Shh.... Can you keep a secret?

This may (I haven't confirmed it) be the site for the first Wasatch Front location of a prominent California eating chain ...

I'll give you a hint. There would be Utah's second one, if the rumor is true.

wrendog · #**1312** Posted **Nov 17, 2008, 12:00 AM**

It's true. That's exactly where I have been told it will be. My source is a lawyer for said company and he heard if from the CEO.

jtrent77 · #**1313** Posted **Nov 17, 2008, 12:51 AM**

This location seems like it should be about right--afterall, probably one of the main motivating factors to get In-N-Out into the Wasatch Front area was Chadders which In-N-Out sued a year or so ago, and I assume they just decided, well shoot, if a copycat is making so much on this venture, why don't we just come in ourselves. And since Chadders is just down the street from the proposed location...