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  • Is Utah headed for a commercial real estate crisis?

    SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) -- The Congressional Oversight Panel recently sounded the alarm for another mortgage crisis, this time among the country's retail and office buildings. The panel chairman warns of "significant bankruptcies among developers and significant failures among community banks."

    So, does that mean foreclosures in the commercial real estate market deliver another sting from the recession? While national and local analysts say there will be pain, Utah commercial real estate will not take the biggest hits.

  • Construction begins on southern portion of Mountain View Corridor

    (South Valley Journal) After more than seven years of planning, construction on Salt Lake Valley portion of the Mountain View Corridor is finally getting underway. Construction will begin on a 15-mile segment of the corridor between 5400 South and approximately 16000 South along 5000 West in late spring. A segment in Utah County (2100 North from Redwood Road to I-15) is already under construction.

  • Group moves to relocate historic building

    (Draper Journal) The Draper Historic Preservation Commission is hoping for help from residents to raise the funds necessary to move a historic building.

    Three group members purchased the old Day Dairy Barn at auction for around $900 a few years ago. The barn was built in the late 1920s and has historic value because it was part of the last operating dairy in Salt Lake County.

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  • Holladay city officials ask for Highland Drive suggestions

    (Cottonwood/Holladay Journal) Future plans for Holladay City's portion of Highland Drive were in the hands of residents and business owners at a public meeting sponsored by the city's community development department on Feb. 10.

    "We have got a lot of positive written and verbal responses from the residents that attended," said Community Development Director Paul Allred. "It was informal and people seemed to feel comfortable to ask questions about the project."

  • Village Center: Holladay's jewel of city may still be diamond in the rough

    (Cottonwood/Holladay Journal) In the heart of Holladay lies the dream of a quaint European-style village center where residents gather, shop and live. The property plans for the southwest corner of Murray-Holladay Boulevard and 2300 East have often been described as the jewel of the city, but have also been the heart of controversy over the past six years. A second appeal has halted the $15 million project once again and the dream is on hold.

  • Provo Spring Creek residents to city: We want a park

    PROVO (Daily Herald) -- Residents of a south Provo neighborhood filled the Municipal Council chambers last week to ask for a park.

    It doesn't need to be big or fancy, Spring Creek residents said. They just need a small park on the south side of State Street, close to their homes, where families can gather and children can play.

    "Please purchase land for this purpose while there is still land to be had," Whitney James asked the council.

  • Saratoga plans 700-plus acre annexation

    (Daily Herald) City Council members in Saratoga Springs prepared for a new addition to their boundaries on Tuesday, an annexation of more than 700 acres with a potential of more than 4,300 residential, business and other units.

    The Teguayo Project is on the south side of the Saratoga Springs city boundaries in unincorporated Utah County.

  • 10th West revisited: UDOT to host another open house for Cache project

    (Herald Journal) A road project that designers hope will help unclog central Logan and get vehicles from one end of the city the other faster is due for a public unveiling. Again.

  • Lights out on home-energy loan bill

    (Salt Lake Tribune) Application denied.

    Salt Lake County won't get the chance to lend thousands of dollars in low-interest loans to homeowners who want to replace drafty windows, upgrade a furnace or put solar panels on the roof.

    A bill that would have made those loans possible never reached a Utah Senate vote, largely because of the lobbying efforts of the Utah Banking Association.

  • Utah plans to take federal land through eminent domain

    SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers angry over federal ownership of land in the state approved the use of eminent domain Tuesday to take some of the most valuable parcels.

    The goal is to spark a U.S. Supreme Court battle that leg­islators’ own attorneys acknowl­edge has little chance of success. But Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and other Republicans say the case is still worth fighting because if the state wins it could reap millions of dollars for state schools each year.

  • Road funds to take detour
    Legislative leaders and Gov. Gary Herbert tied up a host of loose budget ends Tuesday, finding $12 million for critical programs and agreeing to delay a handful of road projects in order to build four college buildings.
  • SLC looks to reshape heart of Sugar House community
    If Salt Lake City sees its vision through, the new heart of Sugar House won't be the dreary dirt lot, or sugar mill monument -- it will be a community garden and public courtyard surrounded by shops and housing for Westminster College.
  • Utah Legislature: Money for roads will now fund new buildings
    SALT LAKE CITY — The Legislature will take $113 million from scheduled roadwork and bond for $89 million to construct...
  • Utah Legislature: Bill would allow bonding for higher ed projects
    SALT LAKE CITY — Times might be financially tough for Utah state government. But lawmakers approved a bill Tuesday...
  • Mormon Church seeks to be 'more proactive' in green-building efforts with City Creek
    SALT LAKE CITY — In some ways, the old downtown malls never went away.
  • WVC to consider anti-bias draft
    West Valley City The City Council agreed Tuesday to allow city officials to come up with a draft ordinance to protect gay and transgender people from housing and employment discrimination.
  • Survey shows Provo residents support rec center, even at a cost

    PROVO (Daily Herald) -- A citizen survey showed that 75 percent of Provo residents are in favor of the proposed recreation center, and 65 percent would favor the facility if the library bond is extended to pay for it.

    The survey, released by Mayor John Curtis on Tuesday, also showed that generally, Provo residents are satisfied with the direction the city is going and happy with the city government. The survey was completed by Dan Jones and Associates and interviewed 415 residents, none of whom were BYU students. It had a 4 percent margin of error.

  • Regis Hotel tenants making last stand for their home's preservation

    SALT LAKE CITY (Deseret News) — William Bogel watched his fiancee die and life begin to slip away.

    Richard Caldwell found himself dealing with a midlife crisis.

    When they hit rock bottom, the Regis Hotel was their last hope.

    Now the men, two of about two dozen still living in the rundown State Street motel, are making a last stand for the place they call home.

  • 2nd ski areas proposed for Cache County in Richmond

    LOGAN (Deseret News) — Developers have filed plans for a new Utah ski area in Richmond, a dozen miles north of Logan.

    The sponsors hope to start construction in April and open the 160-acre ski hill by Thanksgiving Day.

    They plan to build as many as four lifts, plus a "magic carpet" for a tubing hill.

    The development plans were posted on the Web site of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget.

    No name was revealed for what would become Utah's 14th ski area in operation.

  • Zion National Park plan aims at protecting natural sounds

    ZION NATIONAL PARK (Deseret News) — Planners at Zion National Park are starting to look at ways to preserve natural sounds.

    It's part of an effort started several years by the National Park Service recognizing that sounds are integral to a park's character and worthy of protection like any other natural resource.

    At Zion, officials are starting something called "soundscape management," a plan that's intended to make sure human noise doesn't drown out the park's natural quiet.

  • St. George hopes future soars with new airport
    St. George » The new St. George airport under construction is taking shape and officials hope the city's future will soar with it when it opens in January.
  • West Valley City to consider protecting gays in housing, employment
    WEST VALLEY CITY — Republican Mayor Mike Winder is leading the effort to protect city residents from employment or...
  • Bill could expand energy projects
    The nonprofit organization Utah Clean Energy believes the state could look forward to a lot more renewable energy if House Bill 145 successfully makes its way through the Legislature.
  • Worker badly hurt after falling down City Creek elevator shaft
    A construction worker fell 40 feet from scaffolding inside an unfinished elevator shaft Monday afternoon at the downtown City Creek project. The nearest access point to the brick mason was about 20 feet above him, and it took rescue crews 45 minutes to hoist the man through a rope-and-pulley
  • Deal to save bank didn't go through
    A deal to rescue Centennial Bank apparently fell through shortly before Utah regulators closed the Ogden lender last week. Centennial announced in September that Orem-based Vision Bankcard had agreed to acquire controlling interest and infuse new capital into the bank, which was collapsing
  • I-215 westbound to close for bridge work
    Westbound Interstate 215 will be closed Wednesday night through early Thursday and Thursday night through early Friday, from about 400 West to 700 West, for bridge construction, according to the Utah Transit Authority.
  • Zions Bank temporarily moves to Barnes spot

    BOUNTIFUL (Davis County Clipper) — Friday, March 26 will be moving day for employees of Zions First National Bank’s downtown Bountiful branch.

    Operations will be moved – temporarily – to the old Barnes Banking Company branch on the west side of 500 West in West Bountiful.

    “We will re-open there on March 29,” said Rob Brough, a Zions executive vice president over marketing and public relations, Tuesday afternoon.

  • Other states say nightly rental escrow works

    (Park Record) Nightly-rental companies that commingle funds are unethical; that's the consensus of several vacation rental management association officers both in states that regulate the industry and ones that don't. A few added they have no problem working within laws that require separate trust accounts for advance-reservation deposits.

  • Planning commissioner is removed

    (Park Record) County councilpersons have voted unanimously to remove Francis resident KayCee Simpson from the Eastern Summit County Planning Commission, the panel that holds influence on development matters on the East Side.

    Simpson violated the attendance policy for planning commissioners by missing three meetings within three months, according to Summit County Council Chairwoman Claudia McMullin. McMullin was a member of the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission before she became a councilperson in 2009.

  • Construction site, once a mess, looking nicer

    (Park Record) The developers of Echo Spur on Rossi Hill, a project occupying a little-seen corner of Old Town, say they have made significant progress in the months since a neighborhood dispute about the condition of the construction site.

    Connie Bilbrey, the developer, said in an interview the crews in the past approximately 10 months have put in two major retaining walls, water lines, sewer lines, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and a street. Much of the work was accomplished between June and November, Bilbrey said.

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