As Salt Lake City’s first economic development director packed for a move to Virginia last week and bade farewell to co-workers, she said she loved the job here.
Lara Fritts spent the past three years promoting Utah’s capital city as an attractive place for commerce — and departs for a similar but more influential position in Richmond with several accomplishments in the rear view mirror.
When Mayor Jackie Biskupski hired her in 2016, Utah’s capital city was already riding a wave of economic prosperity, with low unemployment and something of a construction boom underway. In an interview on one of her last days at City Hall, Fritts, 48, said she was “honored” to have a hand in guiding and shaping some of that growth.