SALT LAKE CITY | Rundown (including map).

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Parley's Canyon, Another one of many of Salt Lake City's urban corridors. This particular canyon serves
as the thoroughfare for I-80. It has also become a favorite
residential growth area of the metro, accessing three major ski resorts to within minutes of the general metro.
While seemingly remote, this canyon shot is
only a few minutes from the core of 2.5 million people and the western most hub of the world's largest airline.

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Metro Update:

Frank Gehry's Dream - Mixed-use development: The Point project in Lehi moving forward

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/293363/17/






Photos from Deseret News,(Jason Olson)


...Slowly moving through Lehi City's development approval process, The Point's revised concept plan was unanimously approved in early December. The Point engineers will begin to work with the city's Development Review Committee in the new year. DRC members will help fine tune the approved concept plan, working toward a finalized plan with the necessary infrastructure for the multi-billion-dollar mixed-use project, Lehi Planner Frankie Christofferson said

"There are several elements they will go through," she said. "The water, the drainage, the streets - it's quite a lengthy process..."


Craig Dilger/Daily Herald
Utah State Senator Margaret Dayton and her husband Dr. Lynn Dayton discuss the model on display of the possible new development in Lehi designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry...

...The hotel remains a five-star facility with 250 rooms, 45 stories high - potentially Utah's tallest building. The signature arena will be a spacious 500,000 square feet with 10,000 seats

The concept showed an intercirculatory underground network of roads. More roads will be underground than above the surface of the development.

"The project is going to be very vertical in nature, with a lot of buildings wrapping around one another and on top of one another," Corner said...

...Once the final project approvals are given this summer, construction will begin on the hotel, the arena and the two wakeboarding lakes, Andersen said.

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Downtown - Daynes Building redevelopment:

Downtown - Future site of the 'Utah Performance Center on Main':



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Since the holidays have taken precedence over photo trips downtown for our most prodigious photographers, I decided to take a walk on a cold, gray day, the first day of 2009. Hope you enjoy.


NEW YEARS DAY 2009

Downtown's CITY CREEK CENTER

and incidental photos of its neighborhood

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Happy New Year!

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Downtown - Hyatt at the Gateway Update

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Downtown Update - Broadway Park Lofts




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The Gehry development looks beautiful, but who is going to pay to stay in a 5 star hotel in Lehi. SLC can barely support one 5star? Dont tell me that Thanksgiving point is overflowing and needs room for guest, they are barely making it.

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This particular junction of I-15, the new 92 Parkway, future TRAX lightrail extension, and soon to be under construction FrontRunner commuter rail is hardly the agricultural haven that perhaps you once thought of it as. Nor do I think Thanksgiving Point is barely making it. The buildup of class A office, commercial, and residential product has been phenominal over the past ten, five, two years, and even continues right now. This is considered by developers, who actually understand the area intimately, to be one of the hottest junctions, in one of the hottest growth markets, of now the fastest growing state in the nation. This is also the core of the wealthiest and fastest growing demographic in the intermountain region.

The hotel of which you speak is a mixed-use tower, accomodating approx. 200 suites for visitors. I would not consider 200 rooms to be a significant load on the current room total of the metro. Salt Lake City Metro has a half dozen 5 star properties either newly completed or under construction at this writing. Infact, for the past 15 to 20 years the occupancy rate for the metro has been among the highest average in the nation.

No offense meant and believe me I empathize completely, but you sound like your typical 'Laguna Nigel/BYU alumni', who hasn't been fully aware of what is going on here over the past 10 or even 5 years. If you actually lived in any of the many burgeoning communities such as Riverton, South Jordan, Draper, Alpine, Highland, No. Lehi/Traverse Ridge, etc., etc. then you would be as shocked as many long time residents are. My own dual residence of L.A. and Alpine has helped me to see first hand the crazy pace of change in new residential, commercial and tourist growth at this particular location and its surrounding demographic. Even if I'm only absent for six months to a year at a time, the ongoing changes have been stunning.

Of course, the national economy is a bit of a wreck right now, and we'll have to see what kind of effect that has on the long term construction industry in SLC's metro. Prognosticators generally feel that the Wasatch Metro will be one of the softest landings in the nation, and the quickest to change back into hyper-drive. Even now, the Wasatch is considered to have one of a handful of the comparitively best performing, highest growth economies in the nation. The unemployment here is still in the 3's percentile.

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