Salt Lake City Development News

[Dancer]

I hear ya on that one but im glad to see it staying put. I like that old thing. Thanks for the update.

[RC14]

I heard yesterday that the Utah Transit Authority(UTA) is finaly starting construction on a TRAX extention from the current end of the line, in front of the "Energy solutions Arena"(Why the heck did they name it that) to the future Inetermodal Transit Hub South of the Gateway mall.

P.S. I also think that There should be more skyscrapers in Utah, but they need to be build so they don't block the view of the mountins, or at least don't become an eye sore.

[Dancer]

I think it’s so funny to hear people talk about buildings blocking mountain views in SLC. IMO I think a tall skyline can compliment the mountains in the distance (Vancouver, Seattle) and I don’t know if anybody knows this but the Wasatch mountains are enormous! Unless you are right up next the buildings you would have to put NYC and Hong Kong together to block those beauties.

SLC yes I know this is an old pic but you get my point


Vancouver


Seattle

[RC14]

Good Point.
Even the tallest buildings in the world would be dwarfed by the Wasatch Mountins.

[bob rulz]

Originally Posted by Dancer

I think it’s so funny to hear people talk about buildings blocking mountain views in SLC. IMO I think a tall skyline can compliment the mountains in the distance (Vancouver, Seattle) and I don’t know if anybody knows this but the Wasatch mountains are enormous! Unless you are right up next the buildings you would have to put NYC and Hong Kong together to block those beauties.

SLC yes I know this is an old pic but you get my point


Vancouver


Seattle

That first picture has to be edited. Those mountains do not look nearly that big form that angle or from that distance.

And it was renamed EnergySolutions Arena because the naming rights were bought by EnergySolutions...

All four TRAX extensions have now been approved and should be finished soon.

[Dancer]

Those mountains are that big you just have to get really far away and zoom the camera in so that it looks like it was taken from just beyon the radium stadium. BTW WTF is wrong with the Jazz? 4 in a row

[bob rulz]

Originally Posted by Dancer

Those mountains are that big you just have to get really far away and zoom the camera in so that it looks like it was taken from just beyon the radium stadium. BTW WTF is wrong with the Jazz? 4 in a row

If that's the case then shouldn't the buildings be bigger? I don't know, I'd have to check it out. It just never seemed right to me. And don't worry, the Jazz have won three in a row now. Anyway, I didn't come here to make small talk...*cheesy action flick look* Here's an update:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0...224140,00.html
Details for S.L. center starting to take shape

Developer discusses more of the plans for the City Creek project

By Jenifer K. Nii
Deseret Morning News
Architectural renderings likely won't be released until autumn, but preliminary drawings of City Creek Center unveiled Thursday revealed more of developers' vision for the center, including Spanish steps, circular fountains and broad, tree-lined pedestrian walkways.
Mark Gibbons, president of Property Reserve Inc., the real estate arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, went into more detail about the church's plans for the downtown Salt Lake center during his keynote address at the International Council of Shopping Centers' 2007 Mountain West Idea Exchange.
"Over four years ago, we began an effort that has led us to the point where we are at today," Gibbons said Thursday at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. "We are really, in downtown Salt Lake City, at a moment in time ... one can talk about stars aligning, and having the perfect storm."
Negotiating land buys; resolving lease agreements; assembling design, management and other teams; securing funding; gaining public support — all came together to allow the project to proceed, Gibbons said. It took years. But in November, work began with the demolition of the Inn at Temple Square.
On Thursday, Gibbons disclosed a slightly more detailed plan for "deconstruction." Next to fall will be the Crossroads Plaza parking structure, followed by the bulk of the mall itself and ending (on the Crossroads Plaza block) with the Key Bank tower. As of now, that tower is scheduled to fall in July.
On the ZCMI Center block, Gibbons said deconstruction work will begin around the base of the Beneficial Financial Group tower — so that work can begin on a new food court — and move to the buildings near the old First Security Bank building, which will be preserved and will continue to serve as an office building. That will be followed by the mall and end with the area that is currently the ZCMI Center food court. That food court will then move to the Beneficial building.
Gibbons did not provide a timeline for deconstruction on the ZCMI Center block. Excavation on both blocks will go down 50 feet, Gibbons said, below the foundations of four of the existing office towers.
When complete, City Creek Center will feature about 300,000 square feet less office space than currently exists, and a "marginal reduction of 25 percent" in retail space, to 900,000 square feet. There will be about 500 residential units, but no government subsidized housing. The total number of parking stalls will increase, and 100 percent of parking at the project will be below ground, Gibbons said.
The finished product, expected in autumn 2011, will "seamlessly connect to the surrounding city," Gibbons said, promising wide, pedestrian-friendly paths and plazas, a creek and fountains and open, street-level vendors.
"This center, this mixed-use development, is part of the fabric of a larger downtown, and a significant effort is required to make certain that those connections are maintained and improved and strengthened," he said. "This development, as measured by community contribution, will be a catalyst for future revitalization and development within the downtown Salt Lake City marketplace."

[Dancer]

This is very cool. I found it at SSP

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=1863588499

[RC14]

That is pretty cool. Although I'm surprised I have not heard about all of these, I thought I fallowed the news pretty well, and I don't think I would consider all of those high rise buildings. I think that a high rise building should have al least 15 stories. (with a few acceptions)
This is good news, I had expected that we would see more high rise buildings being planed in Salt Lake but I did not think there were this many already coming. I think the 222 North Main tower, and the Lehi tower were the only towers I knew about.

[bob rulz]

I wouldn't consider all of those high rises, but that is pretty cool. I heard about the Lehi hotel recently. If that goes through, that would just be amazing! The tallest building in Utah would be in Lehi? That's just unbelievable.

Here's three Deseret News articles on the condo tower downtown, Frank Gehry's project in Lehi, and a transit plan for downtown.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650225899,00.html
LDS plans call for tower of 32 stories

By Doug Smeath
Deseret Morning News
If the LDS Church's real-estate planners get their way, a few people in Salt Lake City will be living 400 feet above ground.
Plans for City Creek Center, a mixed-use development proposed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to replace the downtown Crossroads Plaza and ZCMI Center malls, call for at least five residential towers.
One of those buildings would be 415 feet tall — or 32 stories. That's only 20 feet shorter than the city's tallest structure, the LDS Church Office Building.
The tallest residential tower — at this point, developers are calling it only Tower 2 — would be built on 100 South between Main Street and West Temple, next to the Marriott Hotel. It would not be part of City Creek Center when the complex is set to open in 2011 but would be a second-phase addition to be built later, based on demand for more housing in the center.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660191531,00.html
Salt Lake to unveil transit plan

Pedestrian travel will be the 'primary mode'

By Doug Smeath
Deseret Morning News
City, business and transportation leaders are calling for a Salt Lake City downtown that is more easily traversed, whether by foot, car, bicycle or transit.
A draft of the city's Downtown Transportation Master Plan, which will be unveiled today, calls for pedestrian travel to be "the primary mode of travel" in the heart of the city. But the plan also includes light-rail extensions along 400 South, 400 West and 700 South; several new TRAX stations; consolidated bus routes; and a shuttle system connecting downtown attractions.
The document is the result of a study commissioned by the city and its Redevelopment Agency, the Utah Transit Authority, the Utah Department of Transportation, the Salt Lake Chamber and the Downtown Alliance. It comes as the city faces a number of major development projects and is working on a revamping of its land-use master plan.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660191719,00.html
Lehi may get 450-foot hotel

Brainchild of Gehry would be tallest building in Utah

By Amy Choate-Nielsen
Deseret Morning News
LEHI — Imagine driving south on I-15, gazing down at Utah Valley's flat farmlands and urban sprawl, then turning a corner and bam — there's Utah's tallest building.
The proposed 450-foot high, five-star hotel is intended to be the icon for the 85-acre development that will include lakes, a sports arena, retail shops and mixed-use residential areas.
The brainchild of famed architect Frank Gehry, the building will surpass in height the state's other two 400-foot plus structures — the LDS Church Office Building (435 feet) and the Wells Fargo Center (422 feet), both located in downtown Salt Lake City.

Oh man this stuff is so cool...Utah is really booming right now.

There's also now a Wikipedia article on the City Creek Center. I'm planning on working on it a bunch over the next few days:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Creek_Center

[Potgut]

Originally Posted by bob rulz

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650225899,00.html
LDS plans call for tower of 32 stories

By Doug Smeath
Deseret Morning News
If the LDS Church's real-estate planners get their way, a few people in Salt Lake City will be living 400 feet above ground.
Plans for City Creek Center, a mixed-use development proposed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to replace the downtown Crossroads Plaza and ZCMI Center malls, call for at least five residential towers.
One of those buildings would be 415 feet tall — or 32 stories. That's only 20 feet shorter than the city's tallest structure, the LDS Church Office Building.
The tallest residential tower — at this point, developers are calling it only Tower 2 — would be built on 100 South between Main Street and West Temple, next to the Marriott Hotel. It would not be part of City Creek Center when the complex is set to open in 2011 but would be a second-phase addition to be built later, based on demand for more housing in the center.

Yeah, here is a pic of it...


It said in the news that the penthouse of this tower will have a clear view of the temple square, but far enough away from temple square so it wont cast a shadow on it and be able to have liqure licence too.

[RC14]

I remember reading about that transit plan in the paper, I think that would be pritty cool to never be more then 2 blocks from a Trax station. However it sounds like it wont happen for a long time. Since UTA already plans to extend Trax to West Valley, West Jordan, Draper, and the airpot.
I hope they start the West Valley line soon, because I live in West Valley and I have been waiting for it for 7 years, but I think they should also start working on the airport extention, because I think it will be a great asset to the city.
P.S. Dose anyone know anything about towers 1 and 3?
I was hoping they would all be taller then 400ft, but that article dose not say anything about them.

[Dancer]

I think I saw something at SSP saying that one of them would be the tallest building is SLC but nobody knows for sure. I hope so, that would be very cool. I also hope one of them goes taller then the project in Lehi. I love the building in Lehi and I cant wait for it to be done but I think the tallest buliding in Utah belongs in SLC.

[RC14]

Originally Posted by Dancer

I think the tallest buliding in Utah belongs in SLC.

I agree, if not in Salt Lake I think it should be in St. George but I don't think St George is large enoughf to support somthing like that, Yet. However I belive it is one of the fastest growing citys in the U.S. and I have heard predictions that it will be larger then Salt Lake within the next 50 years. (That's just the city proper, not the metropoliton area)
Which I don't find too surprising because of it's warmer cimet then Salt Lake.

[Dancer]

I just hope that if it is growing that fast they are taking steps now to deal with sprawl and energy consumption. I don’t know about all these fast growing cities though. Large cities are large because of sustained growth over long periods of time and long-term investments by big Corperations. We will see if Cities like St George will keep it up over the next 50 years. Looks like SLC isn’t growing very slowly either and it has a long-tem infrastructure as well as know how in dealing with big city problems. It is also far more internationally recognizable.

[Frankiec]

Originally Posted by Dancer

I just hope that if it is growing that fast they are taking steps now to deal with sprawl and energy consumption. I don’t know about all these fast growing cities though. Large cities are large because of sustained growth over long periods of time and long-term investments by big Corperations. We will see if Cities like St George will keep it up over the next 50 years. Looks like SLC isn’t growing very slowly either and it has a long-tem infrastructure as well as know how in dealing with big city problems. It is also far more internationally recognizable.

[-Corey-]

Salt Lake City needs more tower, and taller.

[Dancer]

All in due time my friend. Looks like things are picking up down there.

[Dancer]

This seems to be the big buzz in the SLC forums at SSP. I wish somebody down there in SLC would think a little bigger. From what I can tell there is big business for high-rises but not big ones. Well I guess we can’t complain too much. I think this will be great for infill. I’m also just guessing its height by the rendering I really have no idea how tall it’s going to be.

[RC14]

Do you have any idea when this is expected to be completed?