Na'. I feel Erin has a lot of conflict of interests and I was heavily leaning Luz until I read her quote in the Tribune that said she believes the state can step in and take over a municipality if they believe it's in the best interest of the state. Yeah, no.
I think Erin will probably be an ineffective, mediocre mayor. But whatever.
And frankly, I feel all candidates have been pretty damn shitty on the inland port. It's tainted my perception overall.
The biggest surprise, IMO, is Charlie Luke losing his seat to an unknown - but the unknown is intriguing. I think he'll be a good councilman.
You probably have heard more about him than I, but I have only really heard what he is against not what he is for. Spoiler: he is against the Inland Port. The problem I have with that is regardless of the council had 100% anti port people and even if the mayor was too, it is useless. The state is the sovereign and all authority is constitutionally vested in them so the city can basically nothing to stop it. I would never vote for someone based their promise to fight a losing battle. It looks like he lost more out of anger regarding the Port than any vision he inspires.
Hey, so I had a bit of time to kill yesterday and snapped some photos of some of the construction downtown. Sorry, they're just on my phone (and you may notice that my phone case intruded on the left side of some of the images, but I was rushing).
The Hardison Apartments on South Temple:
The Marmalade Project
Hardware Village nearing completion of another phase
Boyer's Liberty Sky on State Street (as I said in a post a few days past, this site was a pit probably six feet deep or so, but they've filled it back in):
Thanks Scott, great updates on some major projects, especially some of those that haven't been captured for a while now like Hardison, Hardware and Marmalade. Very much appreciated...
You probably have heard more about him than I, but I have only really heard what he is against not what he is for. Spoiler: he is against the Inland Port. The problem I have with that is regardless of the council had 100% anti port people and even if the mayor was too, it is useless. The state is the sovereign and all authority is constitutionally vested in them so the city can basically nothing to stop it. I would never vote for someone based their promise to fight a losing battle. It looks like he lost more out of anger regarding the Port than any vision he inspires.
The guy he lost to essentially built his campaign out of opposing the inland port. He is strongly against it.
Hey Orlando, I was looking through some posts from a few months ago and found your images of downtown SLC with future projects. What are these two proposals along Main St. near the theater tower? (marked with a "?")
This really makes me wish Salt Lake had more areas with narrow streets. This looks insanely urban - maybe more urban than anything the city has to offer in any area and it's solely due to the fact the street is narrow and not so wide it looks pretty damn suburban.
That little area is no different than the other points of the city with apartments going up - or have already gone up. Yet, in its overall feel? It is. This feels like a city...this feels urban. The other areas of the city? Places like 400 South? They feel like urban suburbs.
Hey Orlando, I was looking through some posts from a few months ago and found your images of downtown SLC with future projects. What are these two proposals along Main St. near the theater tower? (marked with a "?")
I assume the one on the right is the future Zions Bank tower on 1st So & Main.
Yeah there's no specific proposal but Zions has had tentative plans for a highrise there for a long time. The most recent unofficial news we heard about it was Zions coordinating to have a shared parking garage built with the APS tower project to the west. Tho with Zions posting revenue declines a new tower likely won't happen anytime soon. And APS isn't looking likely until the CCH is built.
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