In terms of moves likely to benefit Utah’s economy, the groundbreaking Friday for a new convention center hotel in downtown Salt Lake City was a big one.
More than 200 government, business and construction-industry officials wedged into a corner of the Salt Palace Convention Center to mark the start of work on the $377 million skyscraper, to be known as the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City.
The 700-room luxury hotel will rise some 25 stories above the intersection of West Temple and 200 South, built directly above and tightly integrated into that southeast corner of the Salt Palace, which first opened at that downtown locale in 1969.