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The Portland Cement Association (PCA) is closely following the launching of Salt Lake City?EUR??,,????'???s $1.5-billion downtown redevelopment. Called ?EUR??,,????'??Downtown Rising,?EUR??,,????'?? the heart of the master plan is City Creek Center, 20 acres that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is developing through its commercial real estate arm, Property Reserve, Inc. According to the LDS Church, Downtown Rising is a collaboration of a broad cross-section of business and community leaders and is managed by the Salt Lake Chamber and its affiliate, the Downtown Alliance. Church representatives, like other downtown property owners, are participating as ?EUR??,,????'??conveners,?EUR??,,????'?? on the cabinet and as technical advisors. No tax dollars will be used. Demolition will be followed by a year of excavation and site preparation. Completion is scheduled for 2011. Salt Lake hopes to combine retail, office, and residential development with open spaces and pedestrian-friendly access. Plans call for up to three national department stores; new and refurbished office towers; 2,000 new residential units; reopening or extension of historic downtown streets as pedestrian walkways; fountains and man-made streams to represent the historic South Fork of City Creek (supplemented by six acres of gardens and open space); and underground parking for 5,600 vehicles. PCA reports it and the Rocky Mountain Cement Council have made several presentations in the last few months to be Downtown Rising?EUR??,,????'???s cement suppliers.
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) is closely following the launching of Salt Lake City?EUR??,,????'???s $1.5-billion downtown redevelopment. Called ?EUR??,,????'??Downtown Rising,?EUR??,,????'?? the heart of the master plan is City Creek Center, 20 acres that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is developing through its commercial real estate arm, Property Reserve, Inc. According to the LDS Church, Downtown Rising is a collaboration of a broad cross-section of business and community leaders and is managed by the Salt Lake Chamber and its affiliate, the Downtown Alliance. Church representatives, like other downtown property owners, are participating as ?EUR??,,????'??conveners,?EUR??,,????'?? on the cabinet and as technical advisors. No tax dollars will be used.
Demolition will be followed by a year of excavation and site preparation. Completion is scheduled for 2011. Salt Lake hopes to combine retail, office, and residential development with open spaces and pedestrian-friendly access. Plans call for up to three national department stores; new and refurbished office towers; 2,000 new residential units; reopening or extension of historic downtown streets as pedestrian walkways; fountains and man-made streams to represent the historic South Fork of City Creek (supplemented by six acres of gardens and open space); and underground parking for 5,600 vehicles.
PCA reports it and the Rocky Mountain Cement Council have made several presentations in the last few months to be Downtown Rising?EUR??,,????'???s cement suppliers.
The Manufactured Concrete Products Expo (MCPX), the largest event specifically for the manufactured concrete products industry, is scheduled for Feb. 22-24 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. This event is produced by the National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA), along with four partner associations: the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA); the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute (ICPI); the American Concrete Pipe Association (ACPA); the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA); and the National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA). MCPX onsite registration opens Wednesday, Feb. 21 (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.). The MCPX show hours are Thursday Feb. 22 (noon to 5 p.m.); Friday Feb. 23 (7:00 to 7:00); and Saturday Feb. 24, 7:00 to 3:00. Dozens of educational tracks cover the latest technical, management and leadership topics. There are also product demos and a working concrete products lab where you can see the latest technical knowledge in action. Product demonstrations, floor sessions and laboratory demonstration testing for precast and masonry products take place in the exhibit hall. More than 6,000 concrete producers attended the 2006 MCPX in Anaheim. The 2008 MCPX & NPCA Winter Conference is set for Denver, Colo., Feb. 6-9. The MCPX headquarters hotel will be the Hyatt Regency Denver. For more information, contact Heidi Weiss at hweiss@ncma.org or call MCPX at 877-627-3976.
The Manufactured Concrete Products Expo (MCPX), the largest event specifically for the manufactured concrete products industry, is scheduled for Feb. 22-24 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla.
This event is produced by the National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA), along with four partner associations: the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA); the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute (ICPI); the American Concrete Pipe Association (ACPA); the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA); and the National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA).
MCPX onsite registration opens Wednesday, Feb. 21 (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.). The MCPX show hours are Thursday Feb. 22 (noon to 5 p.m.); Friday Feb. 23 (7:00 to 7:00); and Saturday Feb. 24, 7:00 to 3:00.
Dozens of educational tracks cover the latest technical, management and leadership topics. There are also product demos and a working concrete products lab where you can see the latest technical knowledge in action. Product demonstrations, floor sessions and laboratory demonstration testing for precast and masonry products take place in the exhibit hall.
More than 6,000 concrete producers attended the 2006 MCPX in Anaheim.
The 2008 MCPX & NPCA Winter Conference is set for Denver, Colo., Feb. 6-9. The MCPX headquarters hotel will be the Hyatt Regency Denver.
For more information, contact Heidi Weiss at hweiss@ncma.org or call MCPX at 877-627-3976.
Brickworks, Australia?EUR??,,????'???s largest brick maker, reports a positive outlook for fiscal 2007 despite the lowest housing approvals in New South Wales since the end of World War II. Improved costs, recent acquisitions and a capital works program is the reason for the optimism.
The Shreveport, Louisiana Police Department says it will crack down on people cracking the downtown streets by illegally parking on the brick walkways. These streetscapes are meant to bear the weight of pedestrians and bikes. Officers will write citations to said offenders.
Grottoes, Va. residents, all 2,200, live in the scenic Shenandoah Valley, with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Appalachians to the west.
As in many communities, Grottoes passed an ordinance in May 2006 prohibiting skateboards on town sidewalks. In Dec., surprise, surprise, the town council overturned the ban with a 4-2 town council vote. Mayor Doug Shifflett, however, warned the disrespectful use of skateboard would not be tolerated.
San Francisco?EUR??,,????'???s St. Mark?EUR??,,????'???s Lutheran Church was built in 1895 and survived the cataclysmic 1906 earthquake and that of 1989. However, its unreinforced masonry was judged unsafe and the church was vacated in June 2005.
St. Mark?EUR??,,????'???s reopened its door Dec. 10. after an $11 million seismic retrofit. To stabilize the building, 130,000 gallons of grout were injected into the sand beneath the brick footings and thousands of gallons of epoxy and dowels embedded into the old brick.
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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