I seriously doubt your figure Tangeld. For one, just CCC alone represents two billion, and many construction experts would say that that figure in reality is ridiculously low. I would have to assume that you are not talking about buildings and infrastructure in general, but skyscrapers only!
Comparing practically any American or European city to Dubai at this juncture really doesn't work out as apples and apples. Even New York or Chicago pales when it comes to 'new-build' Skyscrapers. Salt Lake metro is and has been one of the four to five fastest growing CSA's in the nation for quite a few years now. No, most of the ten's of billions of dollars being poured into construction in the area since the mid-nineties has not been in towers. But considering that much of it has gone to critical infrastructure such as one of the most agressive mass-transit, freeway, surface street upgrades and build-ups on the continent is extremely positive. Additional billions have gone into or are currently being spent on monumental landmarks like the new library, conference center, CCC, the Cottonwood, RSL stadium, numerous and major TOD's all over the metro, etc.,etc. Just our little 'Metro Gold Coast' of major ski resorts alone, have invested billions in infrastructure over the past ten years.
Hey, I'm as anxious as anyone to see more 600-700 footers downtown, and they will come. This metro is and always has been a cautious environment when it comes to towers. Maybe considering it has the most up-close, dramatic backdrop of any major metro on the continent, could be a reason why most haven't felt an overwhelming urge to build something manmade, when it could never compare with what Mother Nature has already constructed.
Like you, I for one would like to see a dramatic skyline to compliment our unrivaled backdrop. At the rate this area is growing, it will happen far sooner than later. Right now, I am glad that comparitively speaking to much of the rest of the nation, "Salt Lake City Metro is Booming big time."
Maybe I'm more in to the endless outdoor activities that I can take advantage of only minutes from my urban door. I'll take that over the 'Hell on earth' landscape of Dubai any day! But ultimately Tangled, Yes I agree, "Get off your butts already, you local visionaries out there." "Give us a skyline to match the Wasatch urbanscape!"
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. I'm not sure I ever see SLC going much over 50-55 floors, which could put us anywhere from 800 - 900 depending on the top they put on it. I would be satisfied with a spattering of 500' - 750' towers, maybe 5-8 of them, that would drastically change the skyline, even a few more mixed in there around the 400-500' mark would ad some nice density to our ever improving skyline, and maybe a tallest of around 900'. While I would like a 1000' tower I don't think SLC skyline necesarily needs something that tall to be a dramatic skyline, we have one thing that sets our skyline apart from any other city in the country and world, our amazing Wasatch Mountains. 
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