Comments about ‘Fitness center, fire fountains in plans for City Creek project’

This is a good development. On the other hand just walking around the new development will give you exercise, but anything to make downtown more attractive and get more people there is a good thing.

I'm sure this will look better than what was there before, but I wonder if there any green, energy saving features in the new buildings? Any rooftop gardens? Any renewable-energy technology used? Any LEED certified buildings?

And coming soon....All those lovely giant banners in the lovely brand new buildings advertising OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT! Don't you just love the banners!

To: Embarrassed Utahn!

Perhaps you should ponder the advice from his father quoted by President Hinckley:

Cynics do not contribute.

Skeptics do not create.

Doubters do not achieve.

Based on other comments you have made, one wonders whether there is anything of which you approve?

Deseret Gym was a fitness center for downtown area until it was torn down to make way for Conference Center. Now it is being resurrected for this same purpose, good things are coming back.

Fountains synchronized to music?
How tacky, how Las Vegas.

Observer: that's a very cynical statement.

The entire project is a pilot LEED ND project.

Oh my, oh gosh oh dear, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its development partner on the City Creek Center project are in negotiations to bring a gym to the downtown development. What will they do with it, store grasshoppers and seagulls in it, for a attraction, that they were once there in Utah ?. Or seeing Las Vegas took their water in Utah, are they trying to be another Las Vegas with Fountains synchronized to music, to impress the redneck cowboy rancher's there in Utah. Perhaps that's why Embarrassed Utahn's are all moveing out from Utah. All those lovely giant banners in the lovely brand new buildings advertising OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT! Don't you just love the banners!. That's my views, like them or not.

@Aggie – The entire development is going for LEED certification.

I think that bringing a gym to the downtown area is a great idea. Like CARL said, there used to be Deseret gym. This will be a great asset to those living in the area.

To all the Mormons (but drop the second "m"):

1- The "non-allocated" office space is 85% filled. Why would you have big banners for 15% (at least for now) of the available space???

2- Deseret Gym was very popular and used by me and my family. I worked downtown and had a membership. Given DGs success, the new gym should not only do just as good, but better. There will be more permanent residents downtown.

3- And Observer @ 8:10 am was not being cynical; just stating the truth.

Downtown Salt Lake City has been and will continue to be one of the most refreshing, safe and enjoyable urban locations in America. Been to others, scared as heck! My wife and I can walk around in downtown SLC and feel very safe. This is the place where, if there is a mugger, they get tackled by other pedestrians before they can get away.

I am excited for this City Creek Project. The naysayers will be amazed when its done. I will bet you on it. Salt Lake City is lucky to have this kind of development. Where other cities in the US are getting old and dying ( business closing ) Salt Lake City is building and creating and innovating. And who is the major contributor and creator of this? I could just imagine the opposition/naysayers/critics (and losers) of that wonderful organization fuming again.

Govt Rocks and Stenar,

Thank you. It's good to know about the LEED certification.

I'll be amazed if this place is open on Sunday OR if my friends and family can find a fine-dining establishment there with a liquor license.

Any city in this country would be thrilled to have a private organization of any kind making this kind of investment in their downtown. Not sure why folks have such a hard time seeing ANYTHING good. Yes, the project will be LEED certified and YES arrangements are being made for alcohol serving restaurants. The LDS church is far more mindful of others than they are given credit. Move on with the resentments and spend time on more positive contributions.

Reasonable Person: Why do the businesses have to be open on Sunday?

Reasonable Person,
Why do people need to have liquor with their dinner? Even in Utah there is no lack of places where you can go and purchase liquor. your demand that every restraunt serve liquor is a bit much, there is nothing else that all restraunts are expected to.

Couldn't the Church have put 5 billion dollars to a better use? Feeding the hungry, building schools for the illiterate, caring for the sick?

I don't seem to recal building malls/office space as one of the four-fold objectives of the Church.

Otis:

Look at the number of jobs this project created. Personally, I'd rather pay a man for an honest day's work instead of give handouts where possible. Plus, how much tax revenue will soon be available for the city, state, and county to apply towards schools and hospitals? A project such as this should be a financial windfall for many other projects! That's what investments do!!!

Also, where has the poor and the illiterate and the sick suffered because this project has gone up? With all the natural disasters going on in the world, doesn't seem that the Church has held back any aid one bit.

The Apostles used your same argument with the Savior. There's a good lesson to be learned in that part of the New Testament.

Otis, please tone down the hyperbole. The Church is spending somewhere between 1.5 and 3 billion on the project--NOT 5 billion. But, alas, it would not matter if the amount were a mere $3 million, you'd still question how the Church's for-profit, taxable entities spend their monies just for the sake of having yet another opportunity to be critical, right?