Midvalley commercial development breaks ground

MIDVALE (Deseret News) — What was a burgeoning mining site decades ago could become one of the state's largest commercial and office developments.

Numerous business and civic leaders were on hand Tuesday for the groundbreaking of View72 Corporate Center at 7800 South and 1000 West. Co-developed by the Gardner Co. and Arbor Commercial, when completed, the 200-acre site could accommodate 2 million square feet of commercial and office space, Gardner Co. president Christian Gardner told the Deseret News.

The first phase of the project, scheduled for completion in July 2010, will include two buildings on a 90-acre parcel that will be occupied by global mining supplier FLSmidth& Co. A/S, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

View72 will become a regional operations center for FLSmidth, with all of its 400 Utah employees consolidating to the Midvale site from the four current locations across the Salt Lake Valley. The two buildings will offer 170,000 square feet of Class A office space, according to a company news release.

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