"There are some exciting things happening in Salt Lake today. I don't think there's a more exiting market in the country than Salt Lake City," he said, noting that the city has land, a low cost of living, an educated work force and people "who like being here and want to be here."

As for Main Street, "with what's going on here, the next 10 years on Main Street are going to be dynamic," he said.

The Tribune's support of the church's downtown efforts is part of his commitment to having "one Salt Lake City and doing what we can do as a newspaper to bring everybody together to go in one direction," Singleton said.

MediaNews Group owns 51 daily newspapers and 122 non-dailies, making it the seventh-largest newspaper company in the country. The Tribune and Morning News, while competitors for news, are business partners working in a new culture of cooperation, with both benefiting, he said.

"We work in an environment where both want both to do well," Singleton said.

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