Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 5

[ucsbgaucho]

Originally Posted by Comrade

I love the idea of the U taking over the stadium and potentially investing in the area. I think that might be the best idea I've heard - so, it's likely not going to happen.

In terms of comparison of Smith's to the other Pac-12 schools, they all mostly range from 1,250 (UCLA) to around 4,000 (Stanford, Oregon). ASU has a capacity of almost 9,000 and Arizona has a capacity of 9,500. So Smith's Ballpark is by far the biggest.

Utes last year when hosting BYU had about 2,000 attendance, against #15 UCLA on a Saturday had 1,367, and hosting #2 OSU on a Saturday at the end of APril had almost 1,400.

I think you're going to see an on-campus stadium built, especially if they have the land available, with a capacity probably around 2,500 or 3,000. I like the idea of a UofU satellite campus in that spot, but I think the stadium is going to be sacrificed for whatever is chosen to come there.

[delts145]

Great post in BSL on The Post District - https://buildingsaltlake.com/take-a-tour...use-neighborhood&ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)

[bob rulz]

I can't rave enough about how impressed I am with the Post District. It's a shame that UDOT and Reagan don't care even a little bit about things like urban fabric.

[Comrade]

Originally Posted by ucsbgaucho

Not getting another baseball team, the only option would be an independent league and those are really small, think the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League. Independent teams play in cities with no MLB or MLB-affiliate teams. SLC is not going to care about a random new minor league team, remember the Alliance of American Football and the SLC Stallions that lasted all of one year here before the whole league folded?

That's a really bizarre comparison since SLC has zero history of ever supporting a pro football team anyway.

If you ask Salt Lake residents who the most memorable minor league team is in the history of minor league baseball in Salt Lake, they'll likely tell you the Salt Lake Trappers.

They played for nearly a decade in the Pioneer League.

To be honest, minor league baseball is so fucked right now, with everything that happened due to COVID + the PR disaster that was minor league player wages, that I actually wonder how viable the sport is long-term anyway.

To the community, I don't think it makes much difference if the team is Pioneer League or PCL.

Which makes this investment by the Millers all the more funny because the landscape of the sport could be radically different in ten years. Hell, it probably will be radically different.

[Old&New]

Originally Posted by Reeder113

Comrade, are you going to be the Pantages Theater guy v2.0? What was his name, Michael Valentine? Are you gonna chain yourself to the park when they bust out the wrecking ball?

I'm kidding, of course. Don't do that!

Mayor Mendenhall, don’t you have better things to do, like finding a team for the stadium, or approaching the University of Utah with a proposal for the Utes to take over the stadium and perhaps expand their campus in the neighborhood too? Or are you just vying to demolish it and sell it for pennies to your developer husband?

[Reeder113]

Originally Posted by Old&New

Mayor Mendenhall, don’t you have better things to do, like finding a team for the stadium, or approaching the University of Utah with a proposal for the Utes to take over the stadium and perhaps expand their campus in the neighborhood too? Or are you just vying to demolish it and sell it for pennies to your developer husband?

Oh, I'm sorry........what?

[Reeder113]

Temple Square

Progress on the Church Office Building plaza.



The eastern portion of the Church Office Building plaza is nearing completion.



New bollards at crosswalk to FamilySearch center.



Forming the third-floor walls of the north addition to the Temple.



Progress on the third floor of the north underground addition of the Temple.



Progress on the restroom facility north of the Tabernacle.





Main Street Plaza.



Installing braces (I-beams) along the lower part of exposed secant wall.



Exposed foundation.

[JTO]

New signage for Le Meridien and Element up on the south side of the West Quarter hotel/s - Looking like a very find hotel imo. Also got some pictures of a long queue of concrete mixers at Asher Adams site, but I still haven't figured out how to post them here.

[Reeder113]

Originally Posted by JTO

New signage for Le Meridien and Element up on the south side of the West Quarter hotel/s - Looking like a very find hotel imo. Also got some pictures of a long queue of concrete mixers at Asher Adams site, but I still haven't figured out how to post them here.

Use Imgur to upload pics. Once uploaded, click on the pic and select "Huge Thumbnail" (under "Sizes" at the bottom), and then click the "Copy" button next to "Direct Link." Then paste that link here inside of image quotes. [IMG] [/IMG]

[mstar]

Thanks for the pics, Reeder!

[Marvland]

Originally Posted by Reeder113

Use Imgur to upload pics. Once uploaded, click on the pic and select "Huge Thumbnail" (under "Sizes" at the bottom), and then click the "Copy" button next to "Direct Link." Then paste that link here inside of image quotes. [IMG] [/IMG]

Again, the only forum I know of that you can't upload images directly. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to post images and have said "no thanks". So thanks to all of you that have much more patience than I!

[Stenar]

Originally Posted by ucsbgaucho

In terms of comparison of Smith's to the other Pac-12 schools, they all mostly range from 1,250 (UCLA) to around 4,000 (Stanford, Oregon). ASU has a capacity of almost 9,000 and Arizona has a capacity of 9,500. So Smith's Ballpark is by far the biggest.

Utes last year when hosting BYU had about 2,000 attendance, against #15 UCLA on a Saturday had 1,367, and hosting #2 OSU on a Saturday at the end of APril had almost 1,400.

I think you're going to see an on-campus stadium built, especially if they have the land available, with a capacity probably around 2,500 or 3,000. I like the idea of a UofU satellite campus in that spot, but I think the stadium is going to be sacrificed for whatever is chosen to come there.

I was just reading an article the other day about costs to build university baseball stadiums. They were $20–65 million. UConn built a 1500 capacity stadium for $40 million. The U should just buy Smith's Stadium from the city.
Also, the U doesn't really have land to build an on-campus stadium.

[ajiuO]

https://www.ksl.com/article/50560628?utm...yMP8phDYDFvr1FPOy32I4QekYjDM2n_s5qNEFGJA

My vote is for option 1: Keep the main building.

[Reeder113]

Originally Posted by Marvland

Again, the only forum I know of that you can't upload images directly. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to post images and have said "no thanks". So thanks to all of you that have much more patience than I!

Yeah, the hoops you have to jump through to post pictures here is ridiculous.

[BretUtah]

Here are a couple of pics of the Astra from the 18th floor of the Regent.

[Old&New]

Originally Posted by Stenar

I was just reading an article the other day about costs to build university baseball stadiums. They were $20–65 million. UConn built a 1500 capacity stadium for $40 million. The U should just buy Smith's Stadium from the city.
Also, the U doesn't really have land to build an on-campus stadium.

AGREED

Originally Posted by ajiuO

https://www.ksl.com/article/50560628?utm...yMP8phDYDFvr1FPOy32I4QekYjDM2n_s5qNEFGJA

My vote is for option 1: Keep the main building.

AGREED

[Comrade]

The U attempted to build a stadium over by Sunnyside Avenue and Guardsman Way, where there's currently a baseball field (but not stadium). The local residents banded together and basically stopped it because it would require encroaching into Sunnyside Park.

But the stadium would likely need to be renovated to decrease capacity. It's the second-largest baseball stadium in collegiate baseball and behind TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, which hosts the College Baseball World Series.

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My thoughts on West is that it would be an utter shame to lose that building. Look at the old East and what they replaced it with to get an idea of what we could be getting here. Just awful all around.

[delts145]

Thanks for that update Bret! Won't be long before Astra is taller than everything around it.

Originally Posted by BretUtah

Here are a couple of pics of the Astra from the 18th floor of the Regent.

[ajiuO]

Originally Posted by Old&New

AGREED



AGREED

Also. I was attending West High when they tore down the original building that had long been used as the tech building and old gymnasium. They built the new tech & science building / auditorium… then they closed the main building and started doing seismic updates… yes, it was a little bit of an inconvenience to students, but it really wasn’t a big deal. We all lived through it. The kids going there now can easily live through the inconvenience while they restore it.

It’s worth it. We shouldn’t be so shortsighted that we put a minor inconvenience for a few years over preserving historic building like that.

We as students got to help move stuff out of the original building and prepared to move out of there… we found some really cool stuff and some not so cool stuff. There was a bottle labeled hydrochloric acid on a shelf in the storage closet in the electronics shop that we didn’t think was really hydrochloric acid…. Until it fell and broke and started to eat through the floor. I remember we had to evacuate after that. Haha

[Old&New]

Originally Posted by ajiuO

Also. I was attending West High when they tore down the original building that had long been used as the tech building and old gymnasium. They built the new tech & science building / auditorium… then they closed the main building and started doing seismic updates… yes, it was a little bit of an inconvenience to students, but it really wasn’t a big deal. We all lived through it. The kids going there now can easily live through the inconvenience while they restore it.

It’s worth it. We shouldn’t be so shortsighted that we put a minor inconvenience for a few years over preserving historic building like that.

We as students got to help move stuff out of the original building and prepared to move out of there… we found some really cool stuff and some not so cool stuff. There was a bottle labeled hydrochloric acid on a shelf in the storage closet in the electronics shop that we didn’t think was really hydrochloric acid…. Until it fell and broke and started to eat through the floor. I remember we had to evacuate after that. Haha

Amazing!