A Tale oF Two Cities
Provo and Orem share an extensive border and plenty of similarities but are on different, positive trajectories toward meeting the needs of their respective residents. By Taylor Larsen
British author Charles Dickens famously said the following about the bustling college towns of Provo and Orem in 2020:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
Jokes aside, it’s hard to believe how crisply and succinctly Dickens could be describing the tale of these two cities as they enter 2021—hopefully the epoch of belief, the season of light, and the spring of hope as we exit a rough 2020.
So where are they headed?
Tech-Powered Growth
The long-time home of Brigham Young University and a former home to one of the best sandwich places around (I’ll never forget you, Rocco’s Deli!), Provo is quickly proving itself to be a long-term home for anyone and everyone.
“There’s just a lot of projected growth and anticipated development. There are a lot of good things happening here in Provo,” says David Walter, Redevelopment Director for Provo City. “There are a lot of markers showing us we are headed in the right direction.”
Orem has a similar trajectory, with the largest public university in the state—Utah Valley University—within its city limits. With an ambitious team of city officials and the city’s history as a retail center for the county, Family City USA has a great foundation and the willingness to build on it.
But it’s the universities’ proximity to each other, barely longer than a 10-minute car ride, that bring a catalytic effect on the area. With so many people wanting to stay close to these universities after graduation, this part of Utah County is a hotbed for growth.
“They are pumping out 20,000 brains a year,” says Woodbury Corporation’s Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Development, Jeff Woodbury, of UVU and BYU. “Those brains are employees and employers and people who are going to provide growth. Those tech companies want to be there because the brainpower is there.”
One major byproduct of that brainpower is Qualtrics, the tech giant on the north side of Provo and whose campus borders Orem. “They are adding 1,000 jobs over the next 10 years and are doubling their space,” said Walter. “They have 150,000 SF right now and are looking to add 160,000 SF of space adjacent to their current building in the Riverwoods.”
Other startups are emerging, and software and development companies dot the two cities—not as much as their northern neighbor in Lehi, but enough to be fertile ground for creativity and growth.
Meeting Housing Demand
The people of Orem and Provo are reaping the rewards of Silicon Slopes gaining further traction within their respective city limits. But while amenities available in Provo and Orem are growing, housing availability isn’t where it needs to be.
Woodbury mentions that NIMBY-ism continues to dominate in each of these towns, especially as each city tries to balance resident desires and city needs. The developer understands it, saying “I can’t tell people we aren’t going to change their lives, because we are.” But he wants residents to realize that if they don’t prepare for this change, the ultimate decisions may be out of their hands.
As Orem City Development Services Director Ryan Clark puts it, “If we don’t provide a place for this to happen, we’re not going to be able to control where this happens.” With affordable housing and overall housing availability such hot button topics, he continued, “We can decide how we control the future, or the [legislature] is going to do it for us.”
Along with quicker growth in rent across Utah County, the price of residential land keeps going up. But all of those interviewed agreed that the idea of punting residential projects down the road to other communities or to a different point in time isn’t going to work.
So are this rising prices of development just land costs? Or are they material, labor, and time costs?
“Yes,” says PEG Companies VP of Development, Matt Hansen of how COVID has helped drive up some of the supply chain issues that then drive up time and labor costs. He and the other leaders are hopeful that the vaccine helps to put a damper on these issues so construction can move forward and needs can be met.
Hansen and Woodbury see it much like Dickens: the season of light.
Why? Because demand is still there. PEG Companies recently completed The Flats at Riverwoods and 200 City View apartments—218 and 159 apartments, respectively, that are on opposite ends of Provo City.
Up in Orem, PEG Companies and Woodbury Corporation recently completed Phase I of The Green On Campus Drive—the 700-bed student housing development. The remainder of project, with another 900 beds, is set to complete this year.
Woodbury Corporation’s flagship property in Orem, University Place, is continuing through with the company’s 15-year master plan. With apartment complexes nearby that have gone up due to Woodbury Corporation’s investment, the company is doubling down on the area’s potential and the city’s needs.
Strong Economic Engines
But these cities, which together count for nearly one-third of the population in Utah County, are maintaining their status as economic powerhouses as they grow.
Clark appreciates how Orem has grown while encircling businesses that have always called the city home. “The businesses that have been around awhile in smaller, older spaces are growing into bigger spaces—they’re taking these new spaces,” says Clark, while the old spaces “are going to these new [businesses].”
But the pandemic has had deleterious effects on retail—Orem’s bread and butter for the better part of four decades. “Retail was undergoing a change anyway, but COVID just accelerated that change,” he says. Clark is confident that property on University Parkway will be in demand for restaurants and retail when the pandemic dies down.
Before 2020, these cities had evolved to fill every niche—taking on retail, tech, student needs, and even reviving industrial and manufacturing, albeit for a different type of clientele than Charles Dickens would have recognized 150-plus years ago.
Spaces like Orem Tech Center on Geneva Road are leasing up as soon as they're built, according to Clark. No longer is it the Geneva Steel mills of yesteryear. Two flex warehouses have been completed, and two more quarter-million SF buildings of similar proportions are projected to go up and add to the collective SF.
South in Provo, Mountain Vista, a business park residing on the former Ironton site of US Steel, is booming. With the help of the Department of Environmental Quality and their remediation efforts, Mountain Vista is a growing manufacturing hub housing companies like healthcare company Press Ganey and shooting range innovator Action Target.
Transport networks like the Utah Valley Express bus rapid transit line were doing quite well before COVID. 10,000 riders per day were utilizing those specific transit services connecting the two cities. That is sure to return after the pandemic, and in the meantime, Provo is expanding their airport.
“We’re building a new terminal and have new gates,” Walter said of the rapidly growing regional airport. Commercial carrier Allegiant Air announced new flights to Orange County and Denver, a promising step to building up the area’s amenities and making it a greater connectivity hub for all of Utah County.
Downtown Infill
Provo is looking to go higher as available land shrinks and existing land has to be converted and redeveloped. Developers simply need to make sure they can provide adequate parking for building users.
According to Hansen, Provo has a great layout for walkability with its smaller blocks adding some charm and setting it apart from its much larger counterpart in Salt Lake City.
He should know—he lives there.
“I’ve had the most urban, walkable experience of my life in Provo, Utah of all places,” he says of living in the city’s emerging downtown. “From [PEG Companies] office, I can walk to lunch. It’s one of my favorite parts of where we are—we can take clients out and walk to lunch.”
He mentions that the local government has been supportive of good development and will allow for increased density in appropriate locations. NuSkin and the Provo City Center Temple have provided a great foundation for continued redevelopment, with PEG Companies’ previously mentioned residential properties continuing to build up the city.
“We’re seeing renewed interest in the residential downtown because people like the quality of life and the lifestyle” that downtown Provo offers, Walter says.
The city is going up in other ways, too. Mixed-use developments like Freedom Commons and Freedom Boulevard to create that perfect blend of live-work-play. With more development coming in to replace the old city hall, additional catalysts are coming in just in time to meet Provo residents’ needs.
Orem, on the other hand, has an older stock of buildings without the same historical value, affording them a different approach. Clark says that their city will probably go through redevelopment over adaptive reuse.
In 2019, Orem City officials completed a visioning and re-zoning process to create five districts at five different intersections on State Street. The goal was to protect neighborhoods with single-family homes but build up density in key sectors. City officials there want it to be a city where everyone can choose exactly the right housing product to fit their wants and needs and still live in Orem.
This is where Woodbury sees a key difference. “People look at Orem not having a downtown, but I see that as an opportunity,” he says. “It’s easier to redevelop a parking lot than it is a set of buildings.”
They’re trying to bring in amenities to help fulfill their unofficial motto: “Build a Better Orem.” New State Street standards with separated sidewalks, trees, and planter strips have gone in for the major thoroughfare, specifically around Orem’s new library.
A new city fitness center is also going in, designed by method studio with Big-D Construction as the general contractor. It matches Orem’s active nature with Clark boasting that Orem hosts the best park system in the county—and even then it might be underselling how good it is. Pickle ball, playgrounds and splash pads dot the city, with a new city park set to go in after the city purchased the school across the street from University Place.
What’s Next?
Woodbury is confident that the Provo and Orem cities are still on the up. “Both cities will grow dramatically over the next 10 years,” he says. “Silicon Slopes will move deeper and deeper into Utah County instead of just focusing on the northern part.”
Clark is confident too. “People still want to live in the heart of Utah County close to the canyon, close to the universities, the retail sector with shorter commutes to the job centers.”
After a harrowing 2020, maybe Charles Dickens was looking at the future of Orem and Provo after all.
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous, and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence.”
When Lehi-based Reef Capital Partners (Reef) initially announced plans in 2018 to build a sprawling, estimated $2 billion mega-resort with a championship-caliber golf course on 600 acres covering parts of Ivins and Santa Clara—small towns with just over 15,000 combined residents at the time—it was difficult to fathom what a project of that magnitude might look like. Fast forward seven years, and Black Desert Resort is indeed a shining oasis amidst Southern Utah's famed red rock cliffs, sitting atop an ancient lava field, with buildings strategically carved into the land to produce a resort unlike anything else. "This is the biggest project we've ever done—we feel really good where we are," said Brett Boren, President of Real Estate for Reef, acknowledging the general completion of the $290 million, 806,000-SF resort center, along with significant ongoing work—including a 1,298-stall parking garage, condominiums, and a private water park. As of September, all aspects of the main resort center were open and fully complete, with the hotel celebrating its first official year in business after partially opening in September 2024 as it hosted the inaugural PGA Black Desert Championship October 10-13. The second installment of the tournament—now dubbed the Bank of Utah Championship—is slated for October 23-26, with a third tournament signed for 2026.
In 2005, Calder Richards Consulting Engineers formed after the merger of two smaller structural consulting firms who, interestingly enough, both started in 1986. Calder Richards has provided a steady structural support for Utah’s built environment ever since. As the firm celebrates its 20th anniversary, UC+D spoke with Managing Principals Shaun Packer and Nolan Balls to look back over the company’s history and celebrate what has helped their firm stand out to deliver solid projects in Utah and beyond. Their responses were edited for clarity and brevity. UC+D: What have been some catalytic moments for Calder Richards since that initial merger? SP: Winning the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona is the first one. The big reason for the merger between Richards Consulting Group and Calder Consulting was to build a large enough company to go after bigger projects like that.” NB: That was my first project when I was hired straight out of college. We helped design the 17-story hotel and casino, a conference center, as well as parking structures, a central mechanical building, and a pool building. Talking Stick helped get us through the downturn a few years later. UC+D: What have been your key market sectors you all have targeted over the last 20 years? NB: We were breaking into K-12 along the Wasatch Front soon after the Talking Stick Resort and it’s been our bread and butter since then. SP: Absolutely, but I credit our firm for always adapting to the current environment. We’ve been fortunate to do so much K-12, but we used to do a lot of office work, and now we are working on conversions like the Ebay Headquarters to CTE/Innovation Center for Canyons School District as the market has shifted away from commercial office. UC+D: Schools have certainly evolved over the last 20 years, how has your work as structural engineers evolved? SP: We are seeing more creative design on the architectural side, certainly. We see many more two-story designs; more windows and daylighting. But we’re utilizing more powerful tools and continually building our understanding of the structural materials that are in use more than ever—tilt-up concrete, steel columns and beams, especially—to be the architect’s trusted partner. NB: Schools have definitely changed, and we’ve had better experience in helping projects move forward successfully when we are involved earlier in the design process. As we got involved early on in West High School’s schematic design, we were able to provide structural solutions and options to accommodate the architects’ design intent. UC+D: How has company growth changed Calder Richards? SP: It’s certainly changed the number of people in our office. We started with around 10 people when we merged, and today we have 27. But we often say that we don’t want to grow just to grow—we want to grow sustainably. We don’t lay people off when works slows down, and we have an expectation that sometimes there will be overtime work, and other times you may be waiting for our next project to begin.
Nested in the middle of the University of Utah (U of U) campus sits the aptly-named Impact & Prosperity Epicenter, the second living learning community (LLC) project designed on campus by Los Angeles-based Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign. After nearly a decade since their first LLC project, the award-winning Lassonde Studios (UC+D’s 2016 Most Outstanding Public Building over $10 million), Mehrdad Yazdani, the design firm’s Principal and Studio Director, said their work on a sequel was an exciting prospect for the firm, and enlisted Salt Lake-based MHTN Architects and Okland Construction to serve as the respective local architect and general contractor. Today, the Epicenter serves as a striking piece of architecture and construction, one whose curvilinear shape asks users and visitors plenty of questions. But moving from idea to execution has been a work in progress. One query from Yazdani stood out as it relates to students and the built environment, and helped begin the journey to create the Epicenter: “How does your living environment as a student impact your success as a student and as a changemaker?” A Project for an Evolving Campus Katie Macc, CEO of the Sorenson Impact Institute, said LLCs like the Epicenter and Lassonde Studios next door have been massive steps forward in advancing entrepreneurship and social impact. But both play a major role in creating “college town magic”—a phrase coined by University President Taylor Randall that invokes a vibrant campus where students can find community and have one-of-a-kind experiences. With more on-campus student housing in the works, the state’s flagship university is hoping to shed the “commuter school” label and deliver a level of desirability that matches the resources students commit to higher education. “There is some soul searching going on across university campuses,” said Macc of the challenge at hand. “We have to be convincing that going to college matters.” She said overall university enrollments across the nation are decreasing as students grapple with tuition costs, COVID and its isolating aftershocks, and a different perspective on higher education. Universities are no longer a place where students come to learn what they couldn’t learn elsewhere—remote learning and the internet have opened a fissure in that idea that will never close. Instead of that educational transaction, being at a university must include building community and creating in-person experiences only available on campus. Macc said that the Epicenter helps steer the campus experience toward the future, with design goals to create a base of operations for two changemaking organizations and a living and learning home for 778 students. The three-story commercial portion of the building, known as the “Changemaker Pavilion”, includes office space for The Center for Business, Health, and Prosperity (second floor) and the Sorenson Impact Institute (third floor). While each organization has a different focus, both are firmly invested in helping students access and create the resources needed to change the world. Each entity works hand-in-hand as owners of the Epicenter to host events and “create a full spectrum of ways for students to get involved,” said Chad Salvadore, Chief Financial Officer for the Sorenson Impact Institute. “We’re dialing in the programming to energize the student body,” said Salvadore of the work done at the Epicenter. With over 60 majors represented among the 778 students who live there, he said that the diversity of students is less a reflection of their chosen major and more a desire to reside in a space built for students to work their entrepreneurial muscles. “Living here is a mindset—you can engage across many different paths you choose.”
Front view of the bleachers, press box, and suites. (photos courtesy SIRQ Construction)
Over the course of its 40-year history in Utah, WSP's Salt Lake office—originally founded as Parsons Brinckerhoff in 1985—has morphed from primarily a transportation design firm to one that successfully operates in multiple civil engineering markets. The results of WSP's transformation the past decade into a more diverse outfit speak for themselves, with the 128-person Salt Lake office (with locations in Cottonwood Heights and South Jordan) posting three consecutive years of revenues over $50 million, including a record $70.1 million in 2023, and a robust $59.9 million in 2024—good for the No. 2 ranking in UC+D's 2025 Top Utah Engineering Firms rankings.
Lucio Gallegos vividly remembers the workforce development meetings he attended during his time at Ogden-Weber Tech. These career and technical education (CTE) discussions consistently focused on one thing: young people were not entering construction, and the industry needed a new approach to attract them. Gallegos recalled one member of the workforce development team, a training director with a prominent general contractor, saying, “We have been trying this for over 10 years, screw it, we’re just gonna hire them.” The Long Road Those conversations occurred nearly 10 years ago, and workforce development concerns continue to permeate the industry. The National Center for Construction Education & Research estimates that 41% of the construction workforce will retire by 2031, leading to potential gaps in skill and safety and decreases in productivity and project quality. While stakeholders have aligned on the overall goal of providing students a foundation for future success through career development, the means to achieve the ends were seemingly at odds. High schools, trade schools, colleges, and private industry took different paths to achieve their goals, with some moving in opposite directions. “I’m gonna be honest with you,” Gallegos recalled one school administrator saying, “If I promote what you’re telling me to get them over to the tech college, I lose head count. And then I lose teachers. I can’t have a school without teachers.” Jobs that took away student learning experiences, according to federal guidelines and child labor laws, made the idea a non-starter. However, after years of lobbying the Utah Legislature for a compromise between industry and education, H.B. 055, passed in 2023, provided a catalytic change in how younger people can engage with construction and other industries. High school students could participate if they were involved in a school-sponsored work experience and career exploration program. Private industry finally had the compromise it wanted. It was time to act. Big-D Charts New Path Gallegos, now the Workforce Development Manager from Big-D, joined the company in 2023 with the express purpose of creating a program that fit within the new guidelines. Gallegos said he sees career development through the lens of the immigrant experience, one he knows personally as a Mexican immigrant with a father who worked in commercial construction. “I was 9 years old and busting pins out of concrete forms with a hammer that was as big as I was,” he laughed. “I’ve got the cliché immigrant story.” That story has a theme familiar to many immigrant families, he said, one where parents say, “I want my kids not to have to work as hard as I do. I want them in school.” Add to that, it’s a law—children must attend school. Gallegos was unfazed by those obstacles. As he began planning how Big-D’s internship program would operate, he knew that engagement had to start at the elementary school level and build on personal relationships between private industry, school administrators, students, and their families to succeed. “We want to be the solution, not the obstacle to get into this industry,” said Gallegos. So Big-D removed the barriers. Students can still attend school, work towards graduation, and be available in the afternoon for sports, extracurricular activities, and the high school experience. But working was another significant part of the immigrant experience, Gallegos said, and internships needed to be paid to alleviate the family concerns. “We asked what we would pay somebody fresh out of high school who worked at Big-D,” Gallegos said. Interns have earned those same wages ever since.
On January 2, 1957, Gene Fullmer, a scrappy, underdog fighter from West Jordan stunned the boxing world with a 15-round unanimous decision over the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson at New York’s fabled Madison Square Garden. Fullmer captured the world middleweight championship and established himself as one of the best pound-for-pound boxers during the late 50s and early 60s. Since then, the Fullmer name has been synonymous with boxing in Utah, with brothers Gene, Jay, and Don establishing the Fullmer Brothers Boxing Gym in 1978, and offering free boxing instruction and life mentoring to thousands of youths—carrying on a tradition they learned from their trainer, Marv Jenson. Their legacy of community giving will live on in the new Fullmer Legacy Center in South Jordan, a 16,500-SF facility that will serve as a permanent home to the boxing gym—after years of bouncing around to various temporary facilities—along with a museum, snack bar, and gift shop. “The Fullmers are the first family of boxing in the state of Utah—that’s well understood,” said Dave Butterfield, a founding board member of the Fullmer Legacy Foundation. Butterfield served as Chairman of the Board from June 2016 to early 2025 and was influential in helping raise money—nearly $6 million via donations to date, which includes $2 million from the Utah Legislature. Project Driven by Vision to Find a Permanent Home for Fullmer Brothers Gym It was Jay Fullmer who led the charge to teach boxing in the community. By 1978, the Fullmer Brothers Boxing Gym had formally opened at the Butterfield farm chicken coop in South Jordan, recalled Larry Fullmer, Don’s oldest son and the man who spearheaded the efforts for the Fullmer Legacy Center. From there, Larry said the facility moved to Riverton Elementary, an old church house in West Jordan, a sugar factory, a former fire station, and the Salt Lake County Equestrian Park in South Jordan, where it had resided since 2011. When they got word that Salt Lake County planned to transfer ownership of the park to Utah State University, Fullmer knew they needed to find a long-term home for the boxing gym. Fullmer met with Butterfield and Robert Behunin—who at the time was a Vice President with Utah State University—in 2016 and told them he just wanted a “tin shed of our own” for boxing. Behunin countered by saying, “If you want people to donate money, you need something better than a tin shed!” They quickly formed the Fullmer Legacy Foundation (FLF), and by 2018, the wheels were in motion on a building. Doc Murdock, a long-time trainer at the gym, connected Larry with his former roommate at Brigham Young University, Vern Latham, who is a Principal at Salt Lake-based VCBO Architecture. VCBO offered pro-bono services initially while helping FLF put together an RFP, while North Salt-based Gramoll Construction provided value engineering and other services in an effort to get the project launched. Larry expressed sheer gratitude for the contributions of both firms in helping make the project a reality, especially for many generous donations from various foundations and individuals. “[VCBO] believed in us early on and did our first phase of planning at no charge—they have been amazing and so professional to work with,” said Larry. “Gramoll helped us get the budget done as tight as it could be. This project had the absolute tightest budget. We met weekly with architects and the general contractor to see the progress—I’ve never seen such an amazing process. Construction started in November ’23, and every time I would come to the jobsite in the first six months, I’d get emotional.” “We leaned on our relationships with contractors for flooring, ceiling, tiles, donated furniture and got deep discounts and a lot of in-kind donations,” said Phil Haderlie, Principal-in-Charge for VCBO. “To me, the story of this project is the grassroots effort of people seeing the value—this is something that came from their heart. It will have a long-lasting impact on the community.”
The first season is in the books for the Salt Lake Bees in its spectacular new home—the Ballpark at America First Square, the exciting new heart of Downtown Daybreak and certainly one of the premier Triple-A stadiums in the country. "It's a really cool stadium—the field looks so good!" gushed Eric Barton, Project Director for Salt Lake-based Okland Construction, while surveying the spacious 280,000 SF, 6,500-seat (8,000 capacity) ballpark. Barton said his team faced an extremely difficult construction schedule with the mandate the project had to be sufficiently ready for Opening Day 2025 on April 8, less than 18 months after the formal October 20, 2023, groundbreaking. Barton said Okland knew it was going to be a grind, with long hours and tight windows to get various milestones accomplished. "When we bid this to our trade partners, we had them bid it with the expectation of it being six days a week," he said. "We want not only your best guys, but you have to be adaptable to the plan. It was gangbusters from the start.” Up to 300 workers were onsite during peak construction activity, requiring meticulous coordination throughout. Okland even brought in Fred Strasser, a legendary project director who came out of retirement to shepherd the project through. "Fred is the genius behind getting this whole thing done," said Barton. The project was designed by Salt Lake-based HOK, who worked closely with the owner, Sandy-based Larry H. Miller Real Estate (LHMRE) and Miller Sports + Entertainment (MSE) to bring about a project that would add even more buzz to its wildly popular, 4,000-acre master planned Daybreak development in South Jordan, making it a true entertainment destination. The design weaves together best-in-class baseball experiences with year-round public amenities, including a recently opened Megaplex theater, a performing arts center, a large amphitheater, along with retail, restaurants, and apartments, with buildout continuing through 2027. Walking paths and open spaces create natural connections between The Ballpark and the surrounding neighborhood, making the area an iconic community asset and a true sports and entertainment district. Downtown Daybreak is slated to host more than 200 annual events—including the Bees’ 75-game regular season. Supporting this entertainment destination, the venue’s prominent location just off the Mountain View Corridor freeway makes it highly visible to passing traffic while providing easy access. The stadium is also connected to multiple transportation options, easily reached by walking, biking or light rail across the Wasatch Front, and by car from the new freeway corridor. The Ballpark site drops 20 feet from the loading dock to the plaza, managed through terraced spaces that echo the region’s mining heritage. Though the slope stays gentle at under 5%, carefully placed stairs and planters make walking comfortable while honoring the industrial past. The center field main entrance connects to light rail, while a formal plaza at home plate serves as a second entrance, primarily for VIP access. The street design follows Daybreak’s established standards for lighting and tree spacing. Bike racks at the light rail station and plaza make cycling to games convenient. Utah’s Landscape Shapes Design The Wasatch Mountains, visible from every angle of the ballpark, directly influenced the ballpark's design. Throughout the venue, carefully planned viewpoints frame these mountain vistas. The structure resembles this mountainous setting in its form, transitioning from solid brick and concrete at its base to lighter materials—metal and expansive glass—as it ascends. Working with Kansas City-based architectural metal fabricator Zahner, HOK and MSE created a distinctive facade using perforated metal panels that suggest Utah mountain peak silhouettes from Ben Lomond Peak in Weber County to Mt. Nebo, the southernmost and highest mountain in the Wasatch Range of Utah. These panels transform into a glowing display at night, serving as a lantern on The Ballpark’s ‘front porch’ and welcoming visitors. This connection to Utah’s landscape flows throughout the site. Angular planters guide visitors along pathways, while public spaces are arranged in terraces that echo the mountainside. The copper colors and stepped surfaces of the nearby Kennecott Mine inspired the ballpark’s materials and layout. Inside, the decor features warm copper, gold and honey tones, with textured materials that blend the natural landscape with the Salt Lake Bees’ team colors.
Horrocks CEO Bryan Foote (left) shakes hands with Matt Hirst, former President/CEO of CRS Engineering & Survey. Horrocks acquired CRS a year ago in a move that has proven to be a seamless fit for more than 60 CRS employees.
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