Utah Alliance

Groundbreaking ceremonies were held on July 27, 2010 for a new health center that will be located in the heart of the Daybreak community in South Jordan, Utah, which will be part of the University of Utah Health Care system. Layton Construction will serve as the construction manager/general contractor for the project.

"This [facility] has been a dream of ours for the last four years. It establishes services for this part of the valley whose growth is so explosive," Dr. Susan Terry, medical director of the new health center, said at the groundbreaking.

The new three-story facility, the first on a planned 50-acre medical campus, will house primary and emergency health care services, including outpatient examination rooms, a surgical center with four operating suites, pharmacy, a 24-hour-a-day emergency room and an AirMed helicopter landing pad to transport patients to the University of Utah Medical Center. Specialty services at the center will be provided by the University's Huntsman Cancer Hospital, Moran Eye Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Orthopaedic Center. The center will be the University of Utah Health Care's largest off-campus facility.

Additionally, the 208,000-square-foot facility will be located at the future site of one of three TRAX stations in the Daybreak community in the southwestern part of the Salt Lake Valley, providing convenient access for staff and patients and the ability to ride TRAX from Daybreak all the way to the University of Utah's main campus in Salt Lake. The site is also adjacent to the future Mountain View Corridor freeway.

The South Jordan Health Center has been designated to achieve a LEED Silver certification, joining the six other buildings within the Daybreak community that have or will be built to meet LEED specifications. Anticipated to open in the late fall of 2011, the health center will employ 300 physicians and staff to serve the fast-growing community in and around Daybreak.

Smith|Hartvigsen attorneys J. Craig Smith, David B. Hartvigsen, D. Scott Crook, Lyle J. Fuller, Matthew E. Jensen, Daniel J. McDonald, and Earl Jay Peck were named again among the 2010 Utah Legal Elite by Utah Business Magazine.

 Mr. Smith, Mr. Hartvigsen, and Mr. Jensen were recognized for their work in the Energy and Natural Resources practice area. Mr. Crook was recognized for his work in Labor and Employment. Mr. Fuller & Mr. McDonald were recognized for their work in Business Litigation and Mr. Peck was recognized for his work in Civil Trials. Utah Business Magazine conducts a yearly survey where attorneys are chosen by their peers to be named Utah’s Legal Elite. This is the fourth year in a row that the majority of the Smith|Hartvigsen partners were chosen as Legal Elite.

Congratulations to one of our Corporate Sponsors!

Mark  your calendars for the upcoming Utah Alliance Quarterly Training which will be held in Moab on October 19!

We have booked a block of rooms at two motels in the area for the night of October 18:

The Best Western Greenwell for $89 + tx and the Ramada Inn for $79+tx.

Please mention the Utah Alliance when making your reservations.

**Please note!  This great price for lodging is ONLY available until September 18th!  Then rates go up considerably, so book early!

The meeting agenda is currently under construction. Stay tuned. We will post the advertising flier as soon very soon! 

We hope to have YOU with us!

Kent Sulser is the Economic Development Director of the Davis County Community & Economic Development office. He was born in American Fork, Utah and has lived here for at least the last 20 years.

Kent has a BA in Finance/Accounting, a MA in Business Administration and an Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP) Designation. Kent has spent a number of years working in the small business area. Besides about 10 years in Small Business Development, Kent considers himself a serial entrepreneur with 7 start ups under his belt.

Kent has been involved in economic development for about 8 years and got into the business through some of his other business development activities. His favorite project so far is the last one he worked on: Janicki Industries.

The last book he read is really a re-read of Stephen Covey’s “Seven Habits.”  His favorite movie is “Braveheart” because of its fighting for freedom theme. Kent has been married for 34 years and has 4 children.

Find Kent at the next meeting and find out about his start-ups and why he find that activity so exciting.

Salt Lake County is taking a small step towards energy independence as it plans to add solar panels to the roof of the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center. The $10 million project will produce 2.6 megawatts of power, enough for 1/4 of the annual needs of the convention center.  At a glance:

• It will generate enough electricity to power 261 homes.
• It will span 600,000 square feet, about the size of six football fields.
• It will provide about a quarter of the Salt Palace’s annual energy.
• It will give the county a cleaner power source, avoiding 4.7 million pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions (equivalent to burning 242,350 fewer gallons of gasoline a year).
• It will start producing power in mid-January.

For full story, click here.

Photo courtesy of Al Hartman, Salt Lake Tribune

Get to know Brad Whittaker, who is the director of the Commission for Economic Development in Utah County. Brad has been involved in Economic Development for over 25 years – 13 of them employed at CEDO and another 12 years as a volunteer. In fact, he got involved in economic development by being a volunteer board member to CEDO. What can we say, once ED gets in your blood, you just have to have it.

Brad was born in Milford, Utah and has lived in Utah all of his life. He has a BS Degree in Business & Industrial Technology and is also an Investment Advisor Representative. Before working for CEDO, he worked for Utah Power/PacifiCorp for 28 years. His favorite economic development project was putting together a Business Resource Center and Technology Center to mentor start-up businesses.

Brad is married and has 5 children and one grandchild. The last book he read was “Think and Grow Rich”. And here’s a fun fact about Brad, he plays in a 60’s rock band. Next time we are looking for entertainment for one of our meetings, we’ll know where to go.

It’s great to have Brad in our ranks.

SALT LAKE CITY — Adobe Systems Inc. announced Thursday that Utah is a big part of its future as the site of a new technology center amounting to about a $1.6 billion deal — big enough that Gov. Gary Herbert held a news conference to announce it and big enough, he said, to be worth every penny of the $40 million tax break the company will get when the project is completed.

"Mostly, it was the timing and the right combination of a lot of attractive options about Utah," Mark Garrett, Adobe's executive vice president and chief financial officer, said following the announcement at the state Capitol. "That tax incentive was certainly one of the attractions in Utah's favor, but it was the talent and skill of the work force, the general business climate and quality of life were very appealing. It's also close to California, and Utah has a strong working relationship between business and its very technology-minded university system."

In any case, the deal is a win-win and then some for Utah, as it could potentially create up to 1,000 new high-tech jobs here over the next 20 years, Herbert said.

Complete article from the Deseret News
Photo: Jeffrey Allred, Deseret News