Salt Lake City has begun several projects aimed at improving "livability and sustainability," according to two-term Mayor Ralph Becker. The new projects are in addition to the city's recently completed public safety building and the $1.8-billion replacement of terminals at its international airport, already under way.
Dust from building the City Creek mixed-use development had barely settled when across Main Street work on Salt Lake's new Broadway-style performing arts theater began. Farther west, near the Jordan River, the city has started construction of an expansive sports complex of 16 competition-level soccer fields. To the north, a new library and residential-retail development will breathe life into a long underused and neglected area of the city.