Salt Lake:Official development news thread - Part 2 - Page 390

John Martin · #**7781** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 4:18 AM**

six gateway by John Martin K, on Flickr

The area is getting pretty colorful.

John Martin · #**7782** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 4:26 AM**

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/5...ounty.html.csp

Quote:

Utah hotels’ strong August defies economic woes

BY MIKE GORRELL
The Salt Lake Tribune

20 September 2011

People traveled and stayed in Utah hotels during August, despite all the woes afflicting the outside world.

Occupancy rates statewide increased to 73.9 percent, up 4.4 percent from the previous August. An even greater gain occurred in Salt Lake County, home to nearly half the state’s rooms, with monthly occupancy rising to 80.9 percent. That was up 5.2 percent from the same month a year earlier and 10 percent since August 2009, according to the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Lodging Report.

StevenF · #**7783** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 4:44 AM**

Any info on Salt Lake City only?

T-Mac · #**7784** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 3:28 PM**

Great shots John.

Lilljemalm · #**7785** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 3:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Old&New

I'm still not clear why it has to be one or the other. Can we not have both?

(convention hotel and the 2,500 seat first-run broadway theater venue)

I know Hamilton Partners has proposed an office tower to go with the theatre, but what about a hotel instead? Hamilton can build an office building on one of the open parking lots in downtown SLC and a 1200 room hotel tower can share a lobby with a theatre.

jtrent77 · #**7786** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 4:08 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilljemalm

I know Hamilton Partners has proposed an office tower to go with the theatre, but what about a hotel instead? Hamilton can build an office building on one of the open parking lots in downtown SLC and a 1200 room hotel tower can share a lobby with a theatre.

Does Hamilton Partners have ANY experience running a hotel? Leasing out Office Space and running a hotel are nothing alike.

scottharding · #**7787** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 4:14 PM**

He's saying Hamilton should give up their spot with the theater and let the hotel have it. The problem with that suggestion is that the need is for a convention center hotel, meaning it needs to be immediately accessible to the Salt Palace and it needs convention space of it's own. That wouldn't work sharing space with a theater lobby.

goldcntry · #**7788** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 5:29 PM**

When some of the larger conventions (and some not-so-large) come to town, yes, the hotels DO sell out. For many years I attended conventions for a large home crafts business (founded in Kanab, now headquartered in Riverton). All the hotels immediately around the convention filled up fast, months in advance. If you didn't get your reservation completed in a timely manner, you could end up having to settle for rooms in facilities closer to the airport rather than downtown. Marriott, Raddison, and the Shilo usually sold out within hours of the convention dates being announced. Grand America, however, usually had rooms available... they were just too darn expensive!

I feel there SHOULD be an adjacent, large, convenient (skybridge accessible) convention hotel. I also feel that it shouldn't have to preclude a world-class theater either. Which is another thing... Went to see a major broadway show that's playing here in town right now. The theater, while lovely, was never designed for today's concerts/events in mind. The production was lovely, but the sound.... horrible! The sound was bad 25 years ago, and the quarter century hasn't improved it. Please, please, please build a new, state-of-the-art theater! I'll even sponsor a couple of seats!

Stenar · #**7789** Posted: **Sep 21, 2011, 11:53 PM**

SLC may tap downtown property taxes for Broadway-style theater
BY DEREK P. JENSEN
The Salt Lake Tribune

There is no consensus from the City Council to build a Broadway-class theater on Main Street, but if that curtain ever rises, City Hall may be allowed to tap a chunk of downtown property taxes to help pay for the $100 million project.

That’s because the council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency board, voted unanimously Tuesday, Sept. 20 to authorize a draft Community Development Project Area for the block extending from 100 South to 200 South between State and Main.

A mega-theater, pushed for years by Mayor Ralph Becker, is proposed for the west end of the block, fronting Main Street. The unspecified amount of money collected through the taxing mechanism would be used to help pay off a theater bond....

Read full article at: www.sltrib.com

T-Mac · #**7790** Posted: **Sep 22, 2011, 2:39 PM**

Sorry, not the best shot in the world. I was in a hurry to get the shot and didn't have time to do a lot of touch-up in photoshop.

T-Mac · #**7791** Posted: **Sep 23, 2011, 3:22 AM**

TANGELD_SLC · #**7792** Posted: **Sep 23, 2011, 4:08 AM**

Is 222's crown lit red because of the Utes victory?

scottharding · #**7793** Posted: **Sep 23, 2011, 5:15 AM**

Yes, and the Walker sign is lit blue because of the impending storm that is BYU's season.

T-Mac · #**7794** Posted: **Sep 23, 2011, 3:41 PM**

This little building is supposed to stay with the new office tower and theater going in right next to it. I hope it never goes on the chopping block as it is a great building.

scottharding · #**7795** Posted: **Sep 23, 2011, 3:44 PM**

I adore that building. And something about having the very modern Regent across the street makes me love it even more. It's fantastic. If ever it was threatened, I'd go all hippy and chain myself to it.

StevenF · #**7796** Posted: **Sep 23, 2011, 6:23 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottharding

I adore that building. And something about having the very modern Regent across the street makes me love it even more. It's fantastic. If ever it was threatened, I'd go all hippy and chain myself to it.

Maybe putting it on the chopping block would be a great way to finally get a forum meet to work.

delts145 · #**7797** Posted: **Sep 24, 2011, 7:47 AM**

Salt Lake students to benefit from new technical center

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52...llege.html.csp

By Suzanne Ashe
The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake City public high school students enrolled in Career and Technical Education courses (CTE) will have a new building come January...

...The new two-story building, which will open for the second semester of the 2011-12 school year, wraps around the south end of SLCC. It will offer more and bigger classrooms, the latest technology and access to common areas shared with the college...

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delts145 · #**7798** Posted: **Sep 24, 2011, 11:33 AM**

^^^
I was more than a little concerned when I saw what they had added on to one of my favorite buildings. You guys who are there to see it, let me know if it's not too obtrusive as to where it is located. It seems to have the right dimensions, but I'm wondering about the finish, color and style. That old South High brick work and stone trim is one of my favorites anywhere.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The new building to house Career and Technical Education courses for Salt Lake City public high school students, above, is scheduled to open in January of 2012.

SLC Projects · #**7799** Posted: **Sep 24, 2011, 3:45 PM**

I wish they would of had the add on better match the old SLCC building. The two just doesn't really go together. IMHO.

John Martin · #**7800** Posted: **Sep 25, 2011, 4:26 AM**

My brother has classes there, but I'm not very familiar with what the south end looked like before. Last time I saw the addition, as I recall, it was nothing like the rest of the building (which I love btw). They tried to respect the original design by doing something totally different. I don't think it ruins the rest of the building, but the addition is nothing special by itself.