The Enterprise back issues from April 2008:
Cedar Breaks National Monument could become a national park
Apr 07, 2008; ... Declared a national monument by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, Cedar Breaks National Monument, located east of Bryce Canyon National Park between Cedar City and Panguitch, is exploring a bid to become a national park. Should that take place, Utah would tie with Alaska as the state ...
Days of '47 celebration involves months of activities that pack an economic punch
Apr 07, 2008; ... The annual Days of '47 Pioneer Celebration is a hallmark of Utah summers, with out-of-town visitors and locals alike enjoying months' worth of community activities culminating in the observance of July 24, a statewide holiday commemorating the arrival of the first pioneers to the Salt Lake ...
Tae Kwon Do martial arts academy to open in Midvale
Apr 07, 2008; ... Black Angels Tae Kwon Do, a martial arts academy, is slated to open the second week of April at 7584 S. Main St. in Midvale with beginner, intermediate and advanced classes available to students five years and older. Owner Michael Cagle will serve as master and head instructor, with his ...
Rising water levels expected to lure visitors back to drought-impacted Lake Powell
Apr 07, 2008; ... After years of low water due to drought and scanty snow melt, the level of Lake Powell, located at the border of Utah and Arizona in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, should rise 50 feet this season, opening up previously closed shortcuts and drawing more visitors to the lake this ...
Nearly $1 million in upgrades expected to boost Bees revenues
Apr 07, 2008; ... As the Salt Lake Bees prepare to open its home baseball season Friday, nearly $1 million in upgrades to Franklin Covey Field have .been made by the Larry H. Miller Sports and Entertainment Group, franchise owner of the triple A ball club, which is part of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ...
Ground broken for 40,000 square foot condominium office project in Midvale
Apr 07, 2008; ... Creek Road Place, a new four-story Class A office building, has broken ground in the Fort Union area. To be located at 7450 S. Union Park Ave. in Midvale, the new 40,000 square foot office building will include 10,000 square feet on each floor. Creek Road Place is being developed ...
Morris Murdock Travel celebrates 50 years in the travel industry
Apr 07, 2008; ... Morris Murdock Travel LLC, Salt Lake City, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. From humble beginnings in 1957, Morris Murdock Travel has grown to revenues of $140 million (60 percent leisure, 40 percent business). Last year, the firm served 500,000 passengers (40 percent on cruises, 25 ...
Double-digit jump in office leasing, lease rates on the rise in county
Apr 07, 2008; ... Demand for office space continued to increase in Salt Lake County during the first three months of 2008 compared to the previous quarter, according to a report released last week by CB Richard Ellis. In the first quarter, there was 190,441 square feet of office space absorbed, an 84 ...
Salt Lake Valley condo sales more up than down in first quarter
Apr 07, 2008; ... Of the 31 zip codes in the Salt Lake Valley, 18 showed increases in condominium sale prices during the first quarter, according to the Wasatch Front Regional Multilisting Service and compiled by Babs De Lay, broker for Urban Utah Homes and Estates, Salt Lake City. "The numbers of sales ...
Ground broken for 207,000 square foot mixed-use project in Lehi
Apr 07, 2008; ... A Salt Lake City attorney has teamed with a St. George excavation contractor to break ground for Cross-Creek Pointe, an approximately 207,000 square foot mixed-use project at 1350 E. State St., Lehi. Attorney Ted Kanell and excavator Duffy Williams are the managing members of Lehi Logg ...
Nearly $3 million in improvements coming to California Avenue
Apr 14, 2008; ... The Salt Lake City Council has created a special assessment area encompassing California Avenue from 4800 to 5600 West, and improvements should begin taking shape in early May. Project manager John Coyle, PE, with the city's engineering department, said the apparent low bidder on the ...
Rumbi Island Grill to begin national franchising effort
Apr 14, 2008; ... Rumbi Island Grill, a tropical fast-casual restaurant concept headquartered in Sandy, is planning to begin franchising the brand nationally. The company is anticipating the franchise expansion will result in the opening of 100 to 125 restaurants within the next five years. The ...
Credit union picks Sandy as site for its largest training facility
Apr 14, 2008; ... America First Credit Union, Riverdale, is planning to open its largest training center this summer in Sandy. The firm has leased approximately 11,000 square feet in the Utah Association of Realtors building at 230 W. Towne Ridge Parkway, where it hopes to be operational by early July, ...
Big-rig service company to more than double size of facilities
Apr 14, 2008; ... Seagull Diesel Repair, a company that has been a service provider to trucking fleets and individual semi-truck owners in the Salt Lake Valley since 1988, is expanding its operations with a new facility that will more than double its existing service center. Owner Dave Billings has ...
California building products distributor to enter Utah
Apr 14, 2008; ... Acoustical Material Services (AMS), a Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based wholesaler and retailer of building materials, is planning to enter the Utah market next month with an approximately 21,000 square foot facility at 3522 S. West Temple, South Salt Lake. The Utah center will carry ...
Businesses need to prepare for new '385' area code overlay
Apr 14, 2008; ... Both businesses and residents in the 801 area code are being asked to begin dialing 10 numbers when making local calls in anticipation of an "area code overlay" that will be implemented next year. Starting June 1, both landline and cell phone users - regardless of their service provider ...
Lindon City to invest up to $10 million in new aquatics center
Apr 14, 2008; ... The Linden City Council has approved a parameters resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of up to $10 million in sales tax revenue bonds to finance the construction of an aquatics center. City administrator Ott Dameron said the center will replace several ball fields located just ...
New firm gives customers chance to drive fleet of exotic cars
Apr 14, 2008; ... Day Dreamin' Exotics, a new company that offers customers the opportunity to drive more than $600,000 worth of exotic automobiles during a five-hour, 150-mile tour for $499, has opened for business at 1297 E. Miller Ave., Salt Lake City. The firm is owned by Ian Harding, who has operated ...
Small Business Journalist of the Year--Barbara Rattle, The Enterprise
Apr 21, 2008; ... Barbara Rattle is the editor of The Enterprise Newspaper Group, a Salt Lake City firm that publishes the weekly Enterprise business newspaper in addition to Wasatch Front Focus, Utah Focus, Utah County Business Journal and Wasatch North Business Journal. She manages a newsroom of four reporters ...
Home-Based Business Champion of the Year--Jill C. Elliss
Apr 21, 2008; ... Jill Elliss has been serving the people of Utah for the last 11 years as the regional director of the Utah Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in St. George. She has worked with hundreds of home-based businesses during the years, helping them to raise not only capital to run their business ...
Women in Business Champion--Margene Lindley Cox
Apr 21, 2008; ... Cox Honeyland has become a very recognizable welcome to Cache County. Margene Lindley Cox sells more than 200,000 pounds of raw honey as well as products, gifts and in excess of 2,000 pounds of fudge each year. She tries to work with as many local and state products as she can for her business ...
Minority Small Business Champion of the Year--Robert Heyn
Apr 21, 2008; ... Robert Heyn is the executive director of the Pete Suazo Business Center (PSBC), Salt Lake City. In a short period of time, Heyn has established the PSBC as one of the most reputable business development organizations for minorities in the state of Utah. The Pete Suzao Business Center is a ...
Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year--Bart Davis, BMK Solutions LLC
Apr 21, 2008; ... Davis' position as Utah transition assistance advisor is a result of a partnership between the National Guard Bureau and Veterans Administration. He educates and assists National Guard and Reserve service members regarding their earned benefits and informs them how to obtain available services ...
Small Business Development Center Service Excellence and Innovation Center Award--Bill Olderog and Buddy Redd
Apr 21, 2008; ... The San Juan County SBDC operates in the most geographically isolated and economically impoverished county in the state, and among the most isolated and impoverished counties in the country. San Juan County is at the bottom of every state and federally measured economic indicator. The county ...
Western Leisure poised to welcome group Chinese travelers
Apr 21, 2008; ... Western Leisure Inc., Salt Lake City, is taking advantage of a recent Memorandum of Understanding that provides "approved-destination status" by the Chinese government permitting Chinese group leisure travel to the United States and opening the door for U.S. destinations to market in ...
Small Business Exporter of the Year--Stephen James Robison, president, RCF Inc. dba MegEvap
Apr 21, 2008; ... Stephen James Robison's is the quintessential story of small business success. Robison started his company, RCF Inc., with $75 in a bank account and a dream that fueled the "blood, sweat and tears" that brought the company to where it is today - manufacturing and selling industrial-quality ...
Specialty food store to open doors in West Jordan
Apr 21, 2008; ... Lorken Food Finery, a specialty store offering gourmet utensils, gadgets and ingredients for existing and aspiring foodies, will open in late May or early June at Gardner Village in West Jordan. The 1,500 square foot space will include a retail area with high-end utensils, bakeware and ...
David Utrilla is Utah Small Business Person of the Year
Apr 21, 2008; ... Founded in 1995 by David Utrilla, U.S. Translation Co. specializes in providing fast, accurate translation into more than 100 languages to facilitate proper, professional multilingual communication. In just more than 12 years of operation, the company has provided outstanding language services ...
Magna township to get its first Walgreen's drug store
Apr 21, 2008; ... The township of Magna will soon get its first Walgreen's drug store. Salt Lake City-based Phillips Edison & Co., which has developed a number of Walgreen's stores in Utah, received a conditional use approval for an approximately 14,800 square foot Walgreen's at 8301 S. 3500 S. that ...
Reports: SLC office vacancy up, industrial market thriving, investments cooling
Apr 21, 2008; ... Vacancies in the Salt Lake Valley office sector has increased slightly, distribution activity is on the rise in the industrial market and real estate investors in the area are pausing, according to first quarter reports from commercial real estate brokerages Commerce CRG and NAI Utah Commercial ...
Denver furniture chain to open 82,000 sq. ft. store in Draper
Apr 21, 2008; ... Furniture Row, a Denver-based operator of more than 330 specialty home furnishings and bedding stores, has broken ground in Draper for an approximately 82,000 square foot store that is slated to open in October. To be located at 54 W. IKEA Way, the center will encompass four stores - Oak ...
Sunrise Senior Living to unveil Holladay facility on April 28
Apr 21, 2008; ... Sunrise Senior Living will open a new 132,000 square foot facility April 28 in Holladay. The two four-story buildings, located at 4650 S. Highland Dr., will accommodate seniors who are capable of living on their own as well as those who need some assistance, and will have an area for ...
Financial/Accounting Services Champ of the Year--Beverly King
Apr 21, 2008; ... Beverly King, as director of the Weber State University Small Business Development Center (SBDC), frequently assists start-up and ongoing business owners with financial forecasts, financial analysis and accounting systems. King has worked in the field of accounting most of her life and ...
Big changes in store April 27 for TRAX light rail riders
Apr 21, 2008; ... Beginning April 27, the Utah Transit Authority will bring its new FrontRunner Commuter Rail service on line as well as three new TRAX stations that will extend the light rail line to 300 South and 600 West. The new Salt Lake Central Station, located at 300 S. 600 W., will be the new "end ...
Salt Lake City design firm's T-shirt enjoying national media attention
Apr 21, 2008; ... A T-shirt created by Salt Lake City design firm Hint Creative for American Eagle Outfitters and the Declare Yourself youth voting campaign is gaining national attention, appearing on the cover of Seventeen magazine as well as on MTV's "Total Request Live" and the "Access Hollywood" television ...
California freight forwarder opens Salt Lake City facility
Apr 21, 2008; ... Target Logistic Services Inc., a Carson, Calif.-based freight forwarder has opened a full-service facility at 4521 W. 1980 S., Suite 500, Salt Lake City. The firm said it is responding to shippers in the Salt Lake City area for expert, competitively priced cargo services by offering a ...
Lots selling fast at new 336-acre residential community in Heber
Apr 14, 2008; ... Salt Lake City-based Cannon Associates has already sold 90 percent of the lots in The Crossings at Lake Creek, a 150 custom home lot and 300 luxury cottage community at 2649 E. Weathervane (1150 South), Heber City. The community will sit on 336 acres and include 85 acres of open space ...
$75 million mixed-use project planned in downtown Salt Lake
Apr 14, 2008; ... A South Dakota hotel developer plans to break ground this summer on an approximately $75 million mixed-use project on roughly five acres between 500 and 600 South immediately east of 200 West in Salt Lake City. Dubbed Salt City Plaza, the project will be anchored by four branded hotel ...
Boston-based healthy, fast-casual eatery to open multiple Utah outlets
Apr 14, 2008; ... UFood Grill, a Boston-based healthy, fast-casual restaurant chain, is preparing to enter the Utah market as part of the company's northwest expansion. Franchisee Greg Felder has entered into a development agreement with UFood Grill to open 38 UFood Grill restaurants in Utah, Colorado, ...
College textbook buy-back business opens near U of U
Apr 14, 2008; ... The University of Utah bookstore will now have some friendly competition - again. Bucks4Books has opened a textbook sell-back hub, at 1330 E. 200 S., next to The Pie pizzeria in Salt Lake City. Bucks4Books hopes to regain trust of University of Utah, Westminster College and Salt Lake ...
Grant enables college to build $25 mil. science center
Apr 28, 2008; ... With approval from the Salt Lake City Planning Commission and a $5.5 million donation from the Meldrum Foundation, Westminster College is planning to break ground next month for a new science center. The $25 million facility, to be named Meldrum Science Center, is scheduled to open in ...
Woods Cross refinery to get $17 million upgrade
Apr 28, 2008; ... Holly Refining & Marketing has agreed to spend more than $17 million in new and upgraded pollution controls at its refinery in Woods Cross and pay a $120,000 civil penalty. The settlement, which resolves alleged violations of the Clean Air Act by Holly, is expected to reduce air ...
Architectural lighting firm to double square footage
Apr 28, 2008; ... Hammerton Inc., a Salt Lake City manufacturer of architectural lighting primarily for high-end hospitality clients, will double its square footage in August when it moves to the Salt Lake International Center. Currently located at 2149 S. 3140 W., the 12-year-old business has purchased a ...
New ceramics business to open May 1 in South Salt Lake
Apr 28, 2008; ... Abbey Ceramics, a new business that allows customers to clean, paint and fire ceramics, is scheduled to open for business May 1 in approximately 5,200 square feet at 3534 S. West Temple, South Salt Lake. Owners Cathy Gerwick and Patti Dixon have purchased Something New Ceramics, a ...
High-end auto dealer launches cost-conscious concept
Apr 28, 2008; ... Harrison Imports, a high-end Bountiful-based auto dealership specializing in luxury and European imports, has expanded its business with a new concept called PriceDrivers that is aimed at cost-conscious customers in the market for a new vehicle. The new PriceDrivers, located at the ...
Michigan manufacturer opens facility in Salt Lake City
Apr 28, 2008; ... Backyard Services LLC, a Monroe, Mich.-based manufacturer of wooden gazebos, pergolas, playhouses, solar sheds, play systems and storage sheds, has entered the Utah market with an approximately 4,800 square foot facility at 2340 S. 3695 W., Salt Lake City. The firm will do business in ...
Lindon sign maker to open sales offices in SLC, Draper, Ogden
Apr 28, 2008; ... SignCity, a Lindon-based company that manufactures a variety of signage from simple outdoor vinyl banners to large vehicle wraps, is expanding its operations with the opening of three new sales centers in Salt Lake City, Draper and Ogden. The first new sales center is slated to open in ...
Reliance Metalcenter expanding SLC facility by 60,000 square feet
Apr 28, 2008; ... Reliance Metalcenter is expanding its Salt Lake City facility, 4355 W. 1730 S., to increase production capacity. An additional 60,000 square feet of floor space is being added to the firm's existing 110,000 square foot facility. The expansion includes a new railroad spur that will ...
Lindon OKs first phase of business park
Apr 28, 2008; ... Lindon City has granted site plan approval for the first building in Lakeside Business Park, a three-structure, 190,000 square foot office/warehouse development that will be constructed at 1411 W. 200 S. Developer of the project is Sunquest Development, Sandy. Jarrod Hunt of CB ...
High-end hotel planned for parcel near SLC arena
Apr 28, 2008; ... The owner of the Westgate Business Center and Westgate Lofts in downtown Salt Lake City has purchased a 3.25 acre parcel on the northeast corner of 100 South and 300 West, Salt Lake City, where plans call for the development of a high-end hotel, retail establishments, apartments, condos and ...
Security 'fast passes' to become available at SLC airport this summer
Apr 28, 2008; ... Clear, a Palm Coast, Fla.-based firm that issues cards to pre-screened passengers, giving them access to special airport security lanes that speed them through the check-in process, has inked a contract with Salt Lake City International Airport. All airlines operating from Salt Lake ...
String of Sears Home Appliance Showrooms to open in Utah
Apr 28, 2008; ... A group of people who recently moved from Florida to Utah plans to open six Sears Home Appliance Showrooms along the Wasatch Front, offering not only Sears-brand appliances but other major brands such as General Electric, Jenn-Air, Frigidaire, KitchenAid, Bosch, LG, Maytag and ...
Swiss IT firm picks Orem as site for North American headquarters
Apr 28, 2008; ... Switzerland-based Wendia AG International, a provider of information technology service management software solutions and one of only 13 ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) certified companies in the world, has opened its North American headquarters at the Canyon Park Technology ...