He noted that other city plans acknowledge how several primary east-west streets such as South Temple seem to disappear in that neighborhood. “I just have a difficult time really understanding the overall context without seeing the whole master plan,” planning commission member Mike Christensen said. But, after nearly 20 months of work, Rocky Mountain Power officials acknowledged Wednesday they haven’t finished a larger master vision on the rest of the land that they can share. The plan for this first phase, according to Susan Petheram, a senior planner with FFKR Architects, is to locate the new office complex well south of the North Temple frontage to make room for future transit-oriented housing and other construction closer to the street.
(Rocky Mountain Power, via Salt Lake City) A site map for Rocky Mountain Power's proposed new office and operations center to be built at about 1275 W. So company wants the initial rezone to get started, and is asking the city to convert those 5.5 acres from light manufacturing to special transit-oriented uses, mostly to allow for more height and density in the office complex and adjoining buildings and to generate more green space along the Jordan River. “For grid resilience and operability of the system as a whole,” said Mario Costanzo, senior project manager for Rocky Mountain Power, “that building needs to come in.” The district also would take a decade or more to build and the company said it is under immediate pressure now from utility regulators to get the new operations center underway.
Some of the land might be sold over time, she added, “but ultimately you have a steward here that is going to be working for a very long time.” “They’re looking to build a high-performance building and ensuring that as other development happens on the site, they will do that,” Jensen said. Melissa Jensen, with the Giv Group, a Salt Lake City firm representing the utility, said it sees itself as “a catalytic player in the commercial, retail and pedestrian space” and wants to “create an area that is pedestrian-focused and honors the Jordan River.” (Rocky Mountain Power, via Salt Lake City) An initial aerial rendering of Rocky Mountain Power's proposed new office and operations center to be built at about 1275 W.
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