Drying Out
The sun is shining, and crews are out working to clean up the mess and get people back on their feet. There are heavy hearts, but -- because this is the ever-optimistic Washington County -- there also is solid determination to push forward, learn from this event, and keep improving.
Speaking of looking toward the future, I presented this morning at the Washington County Economic Summit on development projects in my district. In sum, we are growing fast and making an ever-greater shift toward quality developments. I talked about two government projects -- realigning the I-15 interchange at Bluff Street (milepost 6) to have it make a little more sense (UDOT and a private developer also are involved in this project) and the Northern Corridor, which will provide a belt loop north of St. George to avoid our "inner-city congestion." Wouldn't that have made old-timers scratch their heads to have talked about inner-city congestions just a short while ago. We continue to grow at 7% each year -- with no end in site. That means we double population every 10 years. That's tough to plan for and accommodate.
The private projects I talked about are (1) The Ledges (a 2,700 unit project north of town by Snow Canyon and Winchester Hills, with a Dye-designed championship golf course), (2) Sunset Plaza (the corner of Bluff and Sunset -- across from my house, where for some reason my wife signed me up for a fatness, er, fitness center), (3) The Tonaquint Center (120,000 sq. ft. of office space in Green Valley with a reduntant fiber optic system provided by Interlinx), (4) the beautiful Jennings-Gardner building on the corner of Tabernacle and Main, and (5) Blackridge Terrace (a 50,000 sq. ft. office building that will overlook the Bluff/I-15 interchange and my office). The good news is growth. The bad news is growth.
I'm flying to Salt Lake in a few minutes with Gov. Huntsman. I look forward to having a moment of calm with him and Rep. David Clark to talk about how the State can best meet the flood-related needs of our community. I could not be prouder of how my community is handling this challenge. The stories of people helping people are very tender.
Speaking of looking toward the future, I presented this morning at the Washington County Economic Summit on development projects in my district. In sum, we are growing fast and making an ever-greater shift toward quality developments. I talked about two government projects -- realigning the I-15 interchange at Bluff Street (milepost 6) to have it make a little more sense (UDOT and a private developer also are involved in this project) and the Northern Corridor, which will provide a belt loop north of St. George to avoid our "inner-city congestion." Wouldn't that have made old-timers scratch their heads to have talked about inner-city congestions just a short while ago. We continue to grow at 7% each year -- with no end in site. That means we double population every 10 years. That's tough to plan for and accommodate.
The private projects I talked about are (1) The Ledges (a 2,700 unit project north of town by Snow Canyon and Winchester Hills, with a Dye-designed championship golf course), (2) Sunset Plaza (the corner of Bluff and Sunset -- across from my house, where for some reason my wife signed me up for a fatness, er, fitness center), (3) The Tonaquint Center (120,000 sq. ft. of office space in Green Valley with a reduntant fiber optic system provided by Interlinx), (4) the beautiful Jennings-Gardner building on the corner of Tabernacle and Main, and (5) Blackridge Terrace (a 50,000 sq. ft. office building that will overlook the Bluff/I-15 interchange and my office). The good news is growth. The bad news is growth.
I'm flying to Salt Lake in a few minutes with Gov. Huntsman. I look forward to having a moment of calm with him and Rep. David Clark to talk about how the State can best meet the flood-related needs of our community. I could not be prouder of how my community is handling this challenge. The stories of people helping people are very tender.
posted by steve u. at 1/12/2005
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