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TOD - Birkhill @ Fireclay Update - by Arkhitektor

Originally Posted by arkhitektor

Progress on Birkhill @ Fireclay:

The first phase is nearing completion and models should be open in time for the Salt Lake Parade of Homes in August:



EIFS and Brick are complete on the courtyard side of the first building:





Brick work continues on the front:

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Originally Posted by stevena07

Salt Lake Metro - Big changes for Herriman: $1 billion town center project set to transform growing suburb

By Steve Gehrke
The Salt Lake Tribune

HERRIMAN - In the center of this city, the word "historic" is written in fine print beneath the numbers on many street signs. Farm equipment is scattered across wide-open properties; sheep and horses roam fenced fields.
But an ambitious billion-dollar town-center project is about to change the rural face of the 14,600-resident city that incorporated with barely 800 in 1999.
The smatterings of projected amenities proffered by The Sorenson Group are expansive, with some intending to serve the entire Salt Lake Valley's southwest quadrant. Among the biggest additions: a $30 million recreation center, a new county library, a community lake, ice-skating rink, playground, splash park and movie theater.
Some residents acknowledge mixed feelings, saying they are thrilled with those upshots, but are hesitant of the congestion issues that could come with 2,000 residential units, including town homes and condos.
Claudia Bowles has lived in the city's historic center for about 20 years and is still largely surrounded by open land.
She likes the idea of a nearby rec center, saying she is excited to get back into the habit of swimming without having to drive 11 miles to West Jordan's Gene Fullmer Fitness Center.
But much has changed since she moved to Herriman, and Bowles said the higher density and increased traffic are necessary evils that come with growth.
"You can't have single-family housing without some apartments and things," Bowles said, citing neighboring Bluffdale, which held tight to its rigid low-density restrictions but lost a third of its city as developers broke away and annexed into Herriman.
"The high density has to happen somewhere, and this seems the right place to put it."
Herriman Mayor Lynn Crane said the project will not clash with the city.
"We certainly have supported equestrian interests, and we'll continue to emphasize that in areas of the city. But the economic environment in the valley now really doesn't lend itself to the broad open space that it did 20 years ago," Crane said.
"Times have changed."
The project's developer, The Sorenson Group, also is building Herriman's 2,200-acre Rosecrest development along the city's southwest bench. Company Chairman James Lee Sorenson said the projects will be under construction within the next year, with some homes opening their doors before the end of 2009.
"This is not something that is way down in the future," Sorenson said. "We're going to be turning dirt here in 60 to 90 days. We've got a lot of momentum built that will help fast-track this along."
While he said the company would be careful moving forward, Sorenson said he is not too worried about the housing crunch.
"We feel a real need in the marketplace right now for affordable or attainable housing," he said, adding that many of the planned homes for the Herriman town-center project would range from $150,000 to $375,000.
"What is selling right now is what can be financed and what is driven by demand."
The Sorenson Group's real-estate division head, Don Wallace, said the Herriman project will be environmentally friendly and unique.
"To have a recreation element, a new school, a new library all combined with new housing - I don't think there's anything like it right now," said Wallace.
Mayor Crane said work is already under way on the elementary school, and both the recreation center and library should break ground by fall. The project will require a realignment of a section of Herriman's historic Main Street. That work, Crane said, will begin "in a matter of weeks."
And while former farmlands could transform into a bustling suburban center, long-time Herriman resident Tyler Bowles is all for the convenience of things like rec centers and gas stations.
Said an enthused Bowles: "Giddyap."
sgehrke@sltrib.com


The 400-acre Herriman Town Center project includes:

-A Salt Lake County recreation center, the "J.L. Sorenson Recreation Center"
-A library
-An elementary school
-A new Herriman City Hall, courthouse and performing-arts center on 90,000 square feet
-A park and pond
-2,000 residential units ranging from $150,000 to $325,000
-121,000 square feet of small retail space and 52,000 square feet of office space at 12600 South and Main Street
-45 acres of retail space outside of the town center core, along 13400 South, for larger mixed-use regional retailers and a variety of restaurants
-20 acres of recreational space with a proposed 1-acre community lake, ice-skating rink, playground, splash park and movie theater

Fun times coming to Herriman

Funding for the $30 million J.L. Sorenson Recreation Center comes from the county Zoo, Arts and Parks tax ($24.5 million), The Sorenson Group ($5 million) and the Jordan School District ($1 million). Its facilities include:
* A competition-size indoor swimming pool and exercise/fitness equipment
* An indoor leisure pool with slides, lazy river and water-play equipment
* A drop-in day care area
* Competition racquetball courts and an indoor running and walking track
* A substantial party/reception area
* Two full-size indoor basketball courts
* A dance and aerobics studio
* Future development: a full-size outdoor multipurpose field


http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9733717?source=rss

Herriman to attain $1B heart

By Amy Choate-Nielsen
Deseret News

HERRIMAN — New construction may be slowing for many west-side cities in Salt Lake County, but here, where a newly announced, billion-dollar development is waiting on the horizon, the situation is drastically different.



All totaled, the project — which should begin within 90 days and finish its phases in 10 years — will occupy more than 375 acres in the heart of Herriman.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700238979,00.html

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Originally Posted by T-Mac

ZCMI Block Update




Crossroads Block Update














Tower 1 Update
Notice the steel beams in the upper right corner of the first picture.

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Downtown - Misc Updates - T-Mac

Originally Posted by T-Mac

LDS Church History Library





Building on 300 South that is being remodeled. Notice the large holes being cut in the side. It also looks like the metallic finish on the front is being carried around to the side of the building.



Since it has been a topic of discussion, here it is. I think that we all can't wait to see a reclad done on this one.

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No KIDDING The Church Office Building needs a re-clad as bad as the Zion's Bank tower did. I hope they do it SOON and I suggest they use glass and aluminum with different degrees of reflection in an aesthetically pleasing pattern.

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Salt Lake City Metro - The Junction @ Midvale - Under Construction

Junction at Midvale


Architectural Design

The majority of historical referenced and eclectic architectural buildings of The Junction are oriented along central boulevards with key intersections containing a high level of activity and detail. The commercial, office and retail centers of the development will designed to create a walk-able retail experience, varied storefronts and elevations reference new urbanism with a main street appeal, at the pedestrian scale. Exterior finishes for the buildings in the Commercial/Business District, for example, are to be finished with the following materials, colors as selected from the enclosed color palette:

Brick
Trenwyth Prairie Stone (used predominantly at the Base)
EIFS - (used predominantly on the Upper Stories)
Standing Seam Metal at Roof overbuilds and Canopies
Fiberglass/Metal panel
Glass/Alum. Storefront
Metal frame shading devices (shop-applied paint finish)

The Junction at Midvale also seeks to achieve excellence in the design and implementation of site landscaping. The guidelines describe minimal acceptable standards for site development. Guidelines have been prepared for the three private districts and public rights-of-way within The Junction at Midvale. It is required that landscape plans include the use of plant species that are drought tolerant. Xeriscape principles are to be used in plant selection to create a sustainable landscape that promotes water conservation

Bingham Junction


Midvale, Utah,

Stantec was retained by a developer to provide environmental and engineering services to assist in the development of a transit-oriented development (TOD) land use plan and feasibility analysis for this 221-acre Superfund Site formerly occupied by a mining processing plant. Stantec completed a master plan and feasibility study and created Design Guidelines to a guide the developer in optimizing potential land users, and provide a road map to achieve a final design.

The Bingham Junction project will orient a mix of parks and trails, residential, retail, office, and research park uses around the proposed Mid-Jordan Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line and Station. The master plan and feasibility study will guide the developer in optimizing potential land uses and provide a road map to achieve a final design.

Stantec is assisting the client to gain LEED Certification for the office buildings within the first phase of this project. Stantec is preparing engineering, landscape and irrigation construction documents. This area will be xeriscaped throughout; the design includes low maintenance plants and a centralized climate-based control system. The majority of the irrigation will be drip, which will reduce water use 50% based upon conventional irrigation and conventional landscape. Limited turf areas will have drainage liners placed beneath to convey any runoff to the storm drainage system to prevent infiltration through contaminated substrata.

Over 40 acres have been dedicated as open space and are planned to include a trail system, a boardwalk in a wetland area, and thematic elements throughout.

Site, Bingham Junction



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Reclad that B (COB)

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LDS get final OK on project - Salt Lake approves work on City Center ZCMI facade

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...240103,00.html




The West side of the Key Bank building is exposed as construction continues on the City Creek development in doowntown Salt Lake (Keith Johnson, Deseret News)


Edward Gray, visiting Salt Lake from Atlanta, takes a look at the ongoing City Creek construction through one of the observation windows on Main Street,(Keith Johnson, Deseret News)


The new rendering of the historic ZCMI facade to be reinstalled as part of City Creek Center


Wednesday, developers presented a revised design of the new building using the historic facade in response to concerns expressed by the Historic Landmarks Commission at a June 4 meeting.

Commissioners didn't like the idea of a recessed entrance that created a galleria or corridor between the facade and the actual store, saying it was not street-friendly and made the facade feel more like an intrusion than an asset.
Another issue was the opaque glass planned for the second- and third-level windows, which some commissioners felt created dead space.

Working with the city's architectural review committee, the developers did away with the set-back entrance and modified their plans for the windows to meet commissioners' approval.

The revised design calls for most of the street-level windows to be used for displays, replacing what had been the recessed entrance. Upper-level windows will use reflective glass with lighting hidden between the facade and the new building to illuminate the historic architecture.

Kirk Huffaker, executive director of the Utah Heritage Foundation, said many buildings historically were lit in a similar fashion.

"I think it's a great plan," Huffaker said during the public discussion. "I commend this version."

The approved design calls for the new building to be the same height as the facade, leaving the decorative peak atop the facade to stand alone as it did in 1910 — unlike the most recent reconstruction in the 1970s.

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SLC Metro - Park City - Temple Har Shalom is Park City's first synagogue

http://www.parkrecord.com/scene/ci_9756477


South Elevation











Visit this link for a more detailed photo tour of construction. Also, it gives a better idea of angular features,
at least until the pics are updated on the finished project

http://www.templeharshalom.com/

Architect takes pride in Utah synagogue

By Elaine Jarvik

In the years following the Holocaust, Jewish
communities in German — made up of displaced
Jews from other countries, since the German Jewish
population had been decimated — began building
synagogues to replace the ones destroyed by
the Nazis. These new synagogues often were hidden
away and were generally so nondescript they looked
like cafeterias, says German architect Alfred Jacoby.

The idea, even three or four decades after the end of
World War II, was to try not to be noticed. But in 1986,
when Jacoby won an architectural competition to design
a new synagogue in Darmstadt, he tried a different approach:
"to show that Jews can be part of a city."

Jacoby, who is now one of the most prolific designers
of synagogues in Germany, was in Utah last week at
the dedication of his first American synagogue, Temple
Har Shalom in Park City.

Jacoby's German synagogues, in cities such as Aachen
and Heidelberg, are noticeable and inviting, with large
entrances "to invite you in, as a gesture," Jacoby said.
As he explained to a New York Times reporter in 2000,
"I want them to be part of the urban fabric, to heal
with architecture."

In his synagogue in the city of Kassel, the ark — the
cabinet in which the Torah scrolls are kept — is glass,
and the scrolls inside can be seen by passers-by on the street.

Jacoby's synagogues have clean, simple lines and
sanctuaries full of natural light. The style is what
Americans would call "modern," although Jacoby is
dismissive of the word "style." Instead he prefers a
phrase: "how's my discourse with history?"

And that's no simple question when the history in question
includes the Holocaust and your synagogues are in Germany,
he says. Do you make the synagogue a memorial to the
extermination of Jews? Use a design that breaks with
the past? Try to replicate the synagogues that were destroyed?

Jacoby has chosen not to re-create the past. To do that,
he says, would be to imply that "nothing happened here."

Jacoby is the son of Polish Holocaust survivors. After the
war, unable to immigrate to America because his father
had TB, the family stayed in Germany, where Jacoby
was born in 1950. Jacoby studied architecture at
Cambridge University in England, and in Switzerland,
and is now a professor and director at the Dessau
Institute of Architecture, located in the historic
Bauhaus at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences.

Designing the Temple Har Shalom in Park City was
a different experience, Jacoby says. Jews in Utah
"don't carry in their rucksacks the memories of
something horrific." Instead of a discourse with history,
in Park City Jacoby's discourse was with nature, he says.
The ceiling of the new synagogue undulates, suggestive
of the mountains on the other side of the stained
glass windows.

In Utah, too, the congregation was much more
engaged in the whole process, he says. In Germany,
because the government provides funding for churches
and synagogue construction, the congregations
have a more distant relationship to the process.
In Park City, he says, "they really engaged. It's
like looking at a rowing contest or actually rowing
the boat. And they were rowing the boat."


German architect Alfred Jacoby presents a ceremonial
key to Rabbi Josh Aaronson at Temple Har Shalom in
Park City. German architect Alfred Jacoby presents a
ceremonial key to Rabbi Josh Aaronson at Temple Har
Shalom in Park City. (Tom Smart, Deseret News)

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Metro SLC - Gateway in Kearns? - Local leader believes the corner of 5600 West and 4700 South could sprout a Jordan Landing or Gateway mall

http://origin.sltrib.com/ci_9778104


Charles Henderson, Chairman of the Kearns Economic and Development Committee, shows a map of the section the Salt Lake County plans to redevelop. (Brenda Morfin/The Salt Lake Tribune )

Imagine this: a sizzling shopping district in northwest Kearns with department stores, loft housing and maybe a TRAX station along an old railroad line.
It's a difficult image to conjure up these days - especially when standing on the weed-clogged corner of 4700 South and 5600 West, where rust-splotched tracks, an abandoned warehouse and lines of chain-link fence topped with barbed wire have left an industrial stain on the property.
But Charles Henderson, chairman of the township's economic-development committee, believes the 75-acre property someday could sprout another Jordan Landing or Gateway mall - a "destination"-type development that would create jobs and capture tax dollars now slipping out of Kearns.



Architect takes pride in Utah synagogue

when the history in question includes the Holocaust and your synagogues are in Germany, he says. Do you make the synagogue a memorial to the extermination of Jews? Use a design that breaks with the past? Try to replicate the synagogues that were destroyed?

Jacoby has chosen not to re-create the past. To do that, he says, would be to imply that "nothing happened here."

Jacoby is the son of Polish Holocaust survivors. After the war, unable to immigrate to America because his father had TB, the family stayed in Germany, where Jacoby was born in 1950. Jacoby studied architecture at Cambridge University in England, and in Switzerland, and is now a professor and director at the Dessau Institute of Architecture, located in the historic Bauhaus at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences.

Designing the Temple Har Shalom in Park City was a different experience, Jacoby says. Jews in Utah "don't carry in their rucksacks the memories of something horrific." Instead of a discourse with history, in Park City Jacoby's discourse was with nature, he says. The ceiling of the new synagogue undulates, suggestive of the mountains on the other side of the stained glass windows.

In Utah, too, the congregation was much more engaged in the whole process, he says. In Germany, because the government provides funding for churches and synagogue construction, the congregations have a more distant relationship to the process. In Park City, he says, "they really engaged. It's like looking at a rowing contest or actually rowing the boat. And they were rowing the boat."



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Originally Posted by T-Mac

All photos from this morning.

Downtown - Social Hall Block Update




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Originally Posted by T-Mac

Downtown - ZCMI Block Update

I really didn't notice how deep they have dug until I took these photos. They have hauled a lot of dirt out of there.














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Originally Posted by T-Mac

Downtown Contd. -All photos from this morning.

Crossroads Block Update

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Originally Posted by T-Mac

All photos from this morning.

Downtown Contd. - Tower 1 Update

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Downtown Contd.- 222 So. Main

Originally Posted by T-Mac

Photos from this morning.

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Then and now: Downtown Salt Lake City

The Devereaux House


Deseret Morning News archives

THIRTY-NINE YEARS AGO — The Deveraux House, 334 W. South Temple, was built in 1857 but was in terrible condition in 1967, right, and needed renovation. In its heyday, it had been a mansion with formal gardens. The building was destroyed by fire in 1979 but was rebuilt and restored to its former glory at the same location next to the Triad Center. It currently is a wedding chapel and banquet hall.
Lynn Arave, Deseret Morning News



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Main Street 2005



These were the same photos to ballardphotograhix.com that viperlord posted last night. I just went ahead and posted all the main street photos together.

check out his main street section
http://ballardphotographix.com/PortfolioMainSt.htm

Main Street West side June 2005





Main Street East side June 2005

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Tower 1 update!


Tower 1. LOL
We are now at ground level.

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Originally Posted by T-Mac

SLC Metro - Market Station in South Salt Lake.

I drove by this morning and took a couple quick photos.





I am part of a group that does a little hard money lending and this development by Hamlet Homes is something that we are looking at participating in. I had to take some photos this morning for my group so I thought I would share. It is on Plymouth Ave and is called Waverly Station by Hamlet Homes. Right next to the TRAX line and walking distance to the Meadowbrook Station. Here they are.

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Originally Posted by SLC Projects

SLC Metro - IHC 9-story Office Building Update!
Murray

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