More than 15,000 vehicles travel S.R. 172 (5600 West) daily in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley, but an at-grade crossing with the Union Pacific Railroad was creating up to eight hour delays on this two-lane corridor.
At 6,000 sq ft, this cyclotron radiochemistry facility serves as a manufacturing source of radiopharmaceuticals, which are used in positron emission tomography (PET) scans that provide vital clinical care and research information on illnesses such as cancer, dementia and cardiovascular diseases.
This four-year remodel and expansion project included the total renovation of Primary Children’s Hospital’s NICU, oncology and anesthesia departments as well as the neurological trauma unit, nuclear medicine area, IT offices, administrative offices, doctor recovery spaces, LifeFlight services, meditation room and all corridors.
From a distance, the new Baltic Pointe office building rising on the foothills of Draper about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City doesn’t appear much different from others populating Utah’s tech corridor, known as the Silicon Slopes.
The team delivering Salt Lake City’s newest luxury apartment tower didn’t anticipate that they’d be building Utah's tallest structure, but crews are now halfway to reaching that milestone.