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Originally Posted by DMRyan
This thread is awesome and wanted to encourage you to keep the good work!
SLC looks like such a quality, livable place and seems to be densifying at a pretty good clip.
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Thanks, DMRyan for the kind encouragement. LOL, I get what you're saying about the menagerie of that particular project. The developers were trying to respond to the outcry of the project being to huge for downtown Sugar House. Thus the seemingly endless variety of elemental treatments and massing undulations. I think it would make for some improvement if it just got rid of one or two of the color palettes. For example, I know that white is very on-trend, but it seems to have too much of a jarring effect here.
For any number of reasons, it looks like Salt Lake City and its greater MSA/CSA will have another upcoming decade of boomtown growth and buildup. So far the decision-makers have done a comparatively good job of keeping up with the growth. There are many exciting projects and proposals underway, which will give Salt Lake City and its Wasatch Front a leg up over the competition when it comes to manufacturing, warehousing, high tech, and transportation infrastructure. Of course, the challenge will always be how to maintain the incredible quality of outdoor life while becoming a greater Metro of 3, 4, and upwards of 5-plus million people.