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Steamboat Springs native Vernon Monger recently was awarded the Building Division Project Manager of the Year award by the Utah Chapter of the Associated General Contractors.
Monger has worked for Okland Construction, Utah’s largest general contractor, for 32 years. He currently is completing a $330 million St. Regis Hotel in Park City, Utah.
SALT LAKE CITY — For many devout Mormons, Utah’s capital city is important mainly as a setting for the jewel that really matters: Temple Square at the city’s center. Brigham Young, the pioneer leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, laid out the urban grid with street numbers starting at the temple. The secular world was thus defined by the sacred core.
But now a hugely ambitious, $1 billion church-financed redevelopment project near the temple, called City Creek Center, and a wave of recent church property purchases in the vicinity are prompting a new debate inside the church community and out over where the line between culture and economics should be drawn.
LOGAN, Utah (AP) – Some Utah State University architecture and landscaping students are hoping to help give the city of Providence a stronger identity.
The boundary between Providence and neighboring Logan blends together in a commercial district along State Road 165. A “Welcome to Providence” sign is even somewhat hidden…
Painter, whose mural will adorn City Creek development, defies stereotypes.
Painter David Meikle’s small basement studio is void of any natural light. Eschewing titles about art greats such as Caravaggio or J.M.W. Turner, his bookshelves instead hold volume after volume about aviation and sci-fi movie set illustration.
You won’t find a John Coltrane or Mozart CD in his rack, but loads of Peter Gabriel, U2 and Rush. And his painting starts at 9 p.m., once his four children are fast asleep.
Meikle, a 40-year-old Salt Lake City landscape painter, betrays almost every standard trait the public expects of fine artists.
…Although managing growth, not government reform, was the Utah initiative’s goal, the process did lead to change in how elected leaders work. In fact, the approach has become a model for problem-solving throughout the U.S. and even in some foreign countries.
Envision Utah was created in 1997, and together with state government, it developed tools to help communities plan. It educated the public on how to accommodate growth through higher-density zoning, the expanded use of mass transit and other strategies…
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE – Despite its pitted heart, Sugar House has grown a new limb — and this one is designed to support life.
Oozing urban-living modernity and majestic views, the 29-unit Urbana on Eleventh condominium tower — a block north of the cratered retail hub — is just a few months from completion.
Two years after developer Craig Mecham bulldozed the business district’s eclecticism, surviving Sugar House business owners predict Urbana could revive the area’s weakened but willful pulse.
An interesting study about the rate of growth of clean energy jobs vs total job growth. The map shows where the green jobs are and the rate of change.
Fast Company did a little chart that ranks states based on how many applicants there are per job.
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE – Escalante » Even today it’s a rugged road from here southeast to where 19th-century Mormon pioneers spent a winter blasting into the canyon to descend to the Colorado River.
Visitors without four-wheel drive are advised to forget about visiting the historic Hole in the Rock, 70 miles across a bumpy plain, and even those with such vehicles are cautioned when rain or snow is in the forecast.
DESERET NEWS – HIGHLAND — Developers say that a townhome project is getting the runaround from elected officials.
After the Planning Commission approved the 162-unit project in December, the Highland City Council filed an appeal against the commission, arguing it did not have the authority to green-light the project.
Now, both the council and developers are waiting to hear back from the city’s Board of Adjustment, which listened to complaints at a hearing last week.
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