City Creek development progresses in downtown Salt Lake City

Shops at the LDS Church's City Creek Center won't open until 2012, but the progress of the massive downtown development is impossible to miss. The Regent, a 20-story residential tower, has sprung up at a rate of one floor every six days, and people are expected to move into the 90-unit Richards Court on South Temple across from Temple Square in April. Six years after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced plans for the project, Salt Lake City's new skyline is finally taking shape. The center's food court already is open for business, and a pair of Salt Lake favorites will open shop there next month. Taste of Red Iguana and Bocata, an artisan sandwich shop from the owners of Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana, will join Great Steak & Potato Co., McDonald's, Sbarro, Chang Chun and Suki Hana in the court. While officials have declined to release financial information about the development, some estimate City Creek Reserve, a development arm of the LDS Church, will spend as much as $3 billion by the time the center opens in 2012. The Deseret News