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Show B4 TheSalt Lake TribuneUTAHSunday, September14, 1997_ Utah Cities: When Family Quietly Feuds in another crucial municipal mea- sure: tax base. The one-time agrarian community has aggres- sively pursued retail businesses, scoffs Squire, “ ‘they're giving so much awaythatif they get any tax revenues in 20 years, they'll be lueky. and last year those shops made Foor says the same about Orel “They have been far more ag- lion in goods. gressivein giving away sales tax money,” Stewart says. “We don’t think that’s good business.” $1.178billionin sales. Provo businesses, meanwhile, sold $772 mil- @ Continued from B-1 That means Orem collects more sales tax than Provo, but because Manager John Patterson. of Utah tax law, the proportion isn’t quite so stark. Half the tax revenues go to the community In April, Orem struck back. Or so Provobelieves. wherethe sale was made;the otherhalf is distributed statewide ac- erates $200,000 a year in sales tax, bolted to Orem after the city cording to population. Because of that, Orem keepsonly 94 percent agreed to rebate $150,000 in tax- The competition continues Sandyis building its own city senier around the South Towne all and City Hall, located at TnCOoS. 200 West. The Sonplee of sales tax collected in town, will include superstores, r while Provo receives 124 percent S rants, hotels and_ offices. The Still, Orem'stake totaled $10.5 million in 1996, about $750,000 more than Provo. And those sales taxes are cru- southernendof light rail will run just east of thecity center All three cities have massive business parksto fill We cial to municipalities because goy- Valley City boasts the ernments are reluctant to raise vay. Half the parkis wetlands, a golf course and lakes. Zions Secutities, the LDS Chureh’s construction arm, is luring corporations to Lake Park It’s theclassiest business park in the valley,” says Zions Securi ties Vice President David Jensen. It’s a whole different concept of business. We're attracting busiwheseneeds are met better a cerporate campus.’ “PacifiCorp just moved its service office to Lake Park from dowatewn Salt Lake City. Diseover Card/DeanWitteris building a headquarters there. And Inter- mountain Health Carewill be con- solidating offices from around the valley in a complex for 1,000 workersatthesite. “If [businesses] are satisfied in Salt Lake City, they're not going to want to move to West Valley Gir “says West Valley City May- rid Wright. "We certainly ne not targeting anybody, except those corporations that feel a need or would want to come.’ There are other places besides Lake Park to relocate. Decker Lake Industrial Park just east of Interstate 215 at 2700 South is home to Franklin Covey, Health Benefits Arnerica and United Par- cel Service. And the city has the 500-acre WestRidge Commerce Park at 5400 S, 5600 West. Ultimately, West Valley City will have more jobs than workers. “Frankly, while the economyis so robust, we needto build up our own city with new business to carry us through the inevitable downturn,” Patterson says. But West Valley City’s business parks have to compete with severjarge parksin Salt Lake City. Just across the 2100 South from Lake Park, Salt Lake City has its own business park: the 450-acre “Landmark at Salt LakeCity.” Gateway 2000, a City Hall, will be hometo a surgi- cal center, andsatellite offices of Associated Title, First Security andBeneficial Life. Salt Lake County is conducting a feasibility study to determine whether Sandy would be a good location for a smaller convention center to complement the Salt Palace. And Sandy's 60-acre Auto Mall rivals the dealerships that line State Street from Salt Lake City to Murray Sandy is building on the compe- tition with South Towne Center -— byCity Hall — and Larry Miller's Jordan Commons, located at 9400 S. State St Unlike WestValley City, Sandy is starting to build up. Miller won a variance to build a 10-story office building at Jordan Commons along with 16 movie theaters and five restaurants. Centennial Square, on 10000 South, One SandyPlaza, an office Rick Davis, spokesman “The whole campaignis tonguein ‘ist of Latter-daySaints, grapes, but he worries about the suburbs competing for the same business markets the capital city formerly dominated. Every arena, theater or convention center that is built outside downtown son says. ‘There are some things we can’t change. We wish we had a downtown grid and a central addsto the sprawlandtraffic con- business district. We don’t. We shouldn't delude ourselves. We gestion already plaguing theval- should focus on the things we can Bank, the Utah Jazz and Pioneer Theatre Company all call Utah's capital home. Salt Lake City’s biggest prob- lem wasfinding available land for new commercial and housing de- velopment. Growth was limited to the city’s boundaries, while other cities could offer unlimited undeveloped property. No more. About 500 acres of Jand will open up in Salt Lake City’s western gateway between North Temple and 1000 South and between 300 West and Interstate 15 when rail lines are consolidated in the next five years. Meanwhile, Sandy and, to a lesser extent, West Val- ley City are filling up. All three cities are doing brisk business. But Salt Lake City’s con- two smaller suburbs. In 1996, Salt Lake City issued 497 permits for commercial During the same year, West Valley City issued 49 permits worth nearly $76 million and Sandyis- sued 52 permits worth $52 mil- lion Property values in the cities vary wildly. For example, raw land in Sandy's business district reportedly ranges from $7 to $15 a squarefoot. In contrast, preper- ty on the corner of Salt Lake City’s 200 South and State Street — the proposed site of a 350room hotel — recently was appraised at $57 a square foot. That bothers Dansie, the Salt He knowsit sounds like sour Tey. do.” “There’s a higher purpose here,’ Dansiesays. “East Sandyis as much a part of the economic unit called Salt Lake City as the Adds Moore: “We wili always admire Salt Lake City. But we're more proudof our city. We start- es, we want to be the cultural center. Yes, we want to be the sports center. Yes, we want to be Orem Is No Longer Provo’s Country Cousin the economiccenter. In terms of the health of the whole, it’s better to have these uses concentratedin one place.” Not fair, says Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan. “It's kind of like saying ‘There’s only so much and we don't want anybody else to have any.’ There's so much business out there. Someof it will go to West Valley City; some of it will goto Sandy. Dolan believes it makessenseto move the places where people work, eat and playcloser to where theylive. “There will alw for peopleto goto Salt L . plains West Valley City Commu- nity and Economie Development Director Joseph Moore. “We want people to have a reason to come here as well.” Salt Lake City’s Reid agrees. “We're not an island in this LENNOX Natural Gas Furnace for six months With your good credit you can have a new system installed by Air Comfort and Lennox will finance the entire job and give you six months air conditioner installed in to payfor it with no interest for it for six months. 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Thepast year has taughtthat les- sonto leaders in Provo and Orem. Stewart madeit his administration’s priority to develop a new shopping mall on the city’s southern edge. It is scheduled to open about a year from now. “It’s something our citizens want. It’s anissue of convenience,” Stewart says. “It’s an ego binge,” believes Squire. Trouble is, the Provo Towne Center inevitably will drain business from Orem’s University Mall. Making matters worse, J.C. Penney, one of University Mall's anchorstores, decided to move to Provo. That angered many Orem business leaders, especially when rumors spread thai Provo had of- fered enormous tax rebates to lure the retailing giant. “If the press reports are true,” to build goodwill and shareideas. Both sides say meeting face to Poulsen.“Now, we're not believing all the rumors we hear.” The luncheons even have spawned someof the cooperation that Squire sought two decades ago. 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