Hello Alliance Members! It is time for our quarterly training meeting and this time we are in for a real treat! We are meeting in Moab. Make sure you make room reservations early. The rate quoted from our two hotels closes on September 18. For more details on the meeting, go here.
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.
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.
The economy may be dreary, but Pleasant Grove is finding the bright side.
The Grove commercial district has added 15 new businesses employing 550 people in the past 48 months, city economy director Richard Bradford told elected officials in a recent meeting. The success is part of the city's focus on creating jobs to support families.
"The area currently has 15 businesses in 11 buildings, all built by private developers," Bradford said in an interview. "Those 15 businesses employ 550 people. Most of those jobs are high-level executive and administrative positions, including marketers, administrators, engineers and financial advisors. The goal is to create quality jobs. By that we mean jobs that will support families."
The companies include several financial adviser firms, along with Horrocks Engineers, which employs 70, Mozy, which develops Internet tools and employs 90, the University of Phoenix, employing 32, the Liahona private school, employing 12, as well as a food supplements business, a bank, a website design firm and more.
Ultimately the city hopes The Grove will be home to 150 businesses and 4,800 employees.
To encourage development in the area, the city has spent $10.6 million installing roads and utility infrastructure.
"We've helped reduce the up-front costs of some of these businesses because they don't have to build their own infrastructure, and they are very cost conscious," Bradford said. "Anything they can do to relieve some of their up-front costs is a real incentive for them to come."
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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.
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