After nearly four years of construction, the Utah Transit Authority and Salt Lake City have officially opened the six-mile light rail line linking Salt Lake City International Airport to the existing 20 miles of light rail and wider mass transit system along the Wasatch Front. Photo by Brian Fryer The $209-million light-rail project was brought in under budget and two months ahead of schedule. The $209-million project was brought in under budget and two months ahead of schedule by the joint venture team of Stacy and Witbeck and Kiewit Western. The project included the light rail tracks to the airport
On a wet, overcast day last December, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert stood on the deck of the new Sam White Bridge over Interstate 15 and announced the completion of the I-15 Corridor Expansion, or CORE.
In 1910, when partners in the Granite Furniture Co. built their first store in the Sugar House area of southeast Salt Lake City, the neighborhood was poised to grow into a vibrant part of the city. Named for a processing facility built by Mormon pioneers who hoped to make sugar from sugar beets grown in the Salt Lake Valley, the neighborhood also was served by a new rail spur that delivered goods to its growing commercial center. Three large furniture stores made up "furniture row" near the intersection of key arteries. Related Links: ENR Mountain States: Highway Expansion in Salt
The Utah Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America opened its 91st Annual Convention Jan. 24 at Salt Lake City’s Little America Hotel on an optimistic economic note. Photo by Brian Fryer A panel of economic experts from the public and private sector addressed AGC members at the opening of the associations 91st annual convention. From far left: Dr. Kelly Matthews, retired financial and regional market analyst for Wells Fargo Bank; Natalie Gochnour, executive vice president of Policy and Communication and chief economist for the Salt Lake Chamber; Darin Mellott, Jr., research analyst for CB Richard Ellis; panel moderator
Southwest of Salt Lake City, the communities of Kearns, Taylorsville, West and South Jordan are home to around 250,000 people, making it a major population center in the Salt Lake Valley. The communities are also gateways to expected development farther west in Herriman and Eagle Mountain. Related Links: I-15 CORE Project Kennecott Buidling New Autoclave Facility West of Salt Lake City Other than growth, the thing these communities have in common is a heavy reliance on the Bangerter Highway. The roughly 25-mile-long, north-south road runs parallel to Interstate 15 to the east and stretches from Salt Lake International Airport on
Two harbor seals glided lazily through the water, glancing at the handful of construction workers putting the finishing touches on the new $18-million Rocky Shores exhibit at Utah's Hogle Zoo. Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Several weeks before the scheduled June 1 opening, the seals were getting accustomed to their new home, while Rizzo, the 14-year-old female polar bear from the Cincinnati Zoo, and three brown bears remained in quarantine a few more days before moving into their new enclosures.Workers from South Jordan, Utah-based Sirq Construction have just completed work on a project that has taken nearly two
Spring temperatures are turning up the heat on crews working to reopen Utah’s State Road 14 through Cedar Canyon in Central Utah after an October landslide sent nearly 1.5 tons of debris down onto the road. The highway has been closed following the slide, which broke apart and closed nearly 2,000 ft of the road, burying it in up to 100 ft of debris in some sections. The two-lane highway connects Interstate 15 and State Highway 89, passing near Cedar Breaks National Monument. Tourists, the owners of summer cabins, and ranchers looking to move livestock to summer ranges are pressing
Molybdenum and rhenium are not exactly names that roll off the tongue or carry the familiarity of the copper produced by Rio Tinto's Bingham Canyon mine in Utah's Oquirrh Mountains. While not familiar elements to most people, molybdenum and rhenium are nonetheless valuable to steel and petroleum producers, which is why Rio Tinto, the parent company of Kennecott Utah Copper (KUC), is investing approximately $340 million into building a one-of-a-kind facility to extract, process and package the minerals, using a process developed and patented by Rio Tinto. Kennecott's new molybdenum autoclave process (MAP) facility is rising on what was a
Following more than a decade of dreaming, drawing and fundraising, officials of the Tony-award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, housed on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City, have announced plans to begin construction of a new $26-million theater. Rendering by Eaton Architecture The new $26-million Shakespeare theater will be patterned after the Globe Theater in England, where many of the Bards works were performed during his lifetime. The new facility will follow the Elizabethan-era design cues of the festival’s current Adams Theater, which has staged classic productions since 1971. The Adams Theater itself is patterned after the Globe Theater
Salt Lake City will add another landmark building to the greater downtown area with completion of the $125-million Public Safety Building, scheduled to open in spring 2013. It will replace the current building occupied by public safety administrators since 1958. Continuing a west-to-east line of civic buildings that includes the state's Matheson Courthouse, the historic City and County Building and the Moshe Safdie-designed Salt Lake City Public Library, the new Public Safety Building will fulfill a multitude of needs, including consolidating the administrative offices of the police and fire departments, central dispatch and a disaster/emergency operations center. It also will