New Conservatory a High Note for Small College

Westminster College, a small but nationally recognized liberal arts college tucked into a historic neighborhood in Salt Lake City will be home to some of the most state-of-the-art recording and performance venues in the region when the Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory for Music and Theater opens this summer. Full Story >>

Red Stone Village

At one time, there was little more than a gas station, fast-food restaurant and motel at Kimball Junction on Interstate 80 in Utah's Summit County. The spot was largely a gateway to the ski resorts that surround the historic town of Park City. Full Story >>


A union of urban living and shopping in historic Ogden

The old concept of a live-work neighborhood is making a comeback
For centuries it was not unusual for a city's residents to live and work in the same spaces. Retail shops were on the street level with apartments above. Full Story >>


2004 Construction Spending Outlook from McGraw-Hill Construction

With the worst of the economic hard times ended, McGraw-Hill Construction is predicting a slight increase, or 1 percent, in total construction activity nationwide for 2004. Full Story >>


Private Commercial building inches up slightly

Overall numbers still among the lowest in 10 years
The Utah Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the University of Utah's David Eccles College of Business, is predicting that construction spending on private commercial projects in the state will increase slightly in 2004, due mostly to two large jobs according Jim Wood, interim director of the Bureau. The two projects are Intermountain Health Care's new $362 million Intermountain Medical Center in Murray and the Stampin' Up scrapbook and stamping supply company's $20 million new corporate headquarters in Riverton. Full Story >>


Finding the right price

The Prime Directive of the Estimator is to … find the "right price." Full Story >>