Salt Lake City & MSA/CSA Rundown
Since you are new to the forum I'll assume that you're possibly unacquainted with some of its features. Please go to the General Contents page
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/index.php Then, click onto the Compilation Thread
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=87
You will see three headings to the right, one of which gives the number of views that each city category has accumulated. I haven't tracked the number in quite some time, but it will typically range anywhere from 300 to 600 hits a day. Sometimes, as many as 1,000. If I update on a daily basis, and there are projects that people find particularly interesting, then the number of views will quickly grow. Projects like the new 111 S. Main Tower/Regent St./ Eccles Theatre development, or the City Creek development tend to generate a lot of traffic.
Unlike the Mountain West forum of Denver, Salt Lake City, and Boise respectively, many cities on this Compilation Thread use it as their main discussion forum. Salt Lake City does not, and never has. I use it simply to copy and paste from the local forum those projects currently in proposal and development. Apparently, many find the pictures entertaining enough that several hundred on any given day will hit the thread and view it. For practically the entire existence of the thread, it has ranked at number nine out of fifty for total number of views.
For some time now the general Salt Lake City area has been one of the hottest job and growth markets in the country. For those who frequent the Skyscraper Forum and are just curious, or like many looking for career changes and different places to relocate, this is a handy tool, which also often dispels a lot of misconceptions of Salt Lake City proper itself. I've received enough private messages and requests for further clarifications to know this is the case .
There are thousands of new residential units being added to the Downtown and Central Salt Lake market yearly. Each week it seems as if multiple new major residential projects are proposed, commence construction, or are completed. The huge Hardware Village project alone, along with the many tandem projects it is generating, is transforming an entire sector of the city as if overnight. Developers estimated that 70% percent of those moving into the most recently completed portions were from out of state.
For whatever the reason, hundreds view it daily, and that's reason enough for me to keep it updated.