For many years, state and community leaders have looked forward to the year 2020 as a future milestone for setting goals and developing policy. The future is here! And we can’t help but reflect on where Utah — and particularly its economy and community — stands in terms of where we were, where we are, [...]
The Salt Lake Chamber announced today that Governor Mike Leavitt will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2020 Utah Economic Outlook & Public Policy Summit. Leavitt is the founder of Leavitt Partners, a healthcare intelligence business. In previous roles, Leavitt served as secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (2005-2009), [...]
Business community recognizes the leadership of America’s current longest-serving governor SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (December 19, 2019) – The Salt Lake Chamber has announced that Governor Gary R. Herbert will be honored as the 41st Giant in our City. The award honors those with exceptional and distinguished service and extraordinary professional achievement and is widely [...]
In the Salt Lake Chamber podcast called "CEO Success Stories," Derek Miller, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber and Downtown Alliance, sits down with a top leader from across the state to hear from them their leadership philosophy, best practices and lessons learned. We are pleased to be joined with Martin Ritter, CEO [...]
For the third consecutive year, Modern Healthcare magazine has named Intermountain Healthcare president and CEO Marc Harrison, MD, to its list of 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. Dr. Harrison is ranked 26th on this year’s Modern Healthcare list, which annually recognizes and ranks individuals in healthcare for their leadership and impact on the healthcare [...]
Salt Lake City, UT (December 9, 2019) — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) announces the relocation of software development company, PDQ.com’s corporate headquarters. The company will occupy 75,000 square feet of office space in the first phase of “South City,” the largest development project to ever take place in South Salt Lake. NKF Executive Managing Director [...]
CBRE Report Highlights Retail Trends Aimed at Generating Holiday Traffic, Improving Speed of Service, Expanding Options for Shoppers Salt Lake City—December 4, 2019—Trends in store for retailers and shoppers this shortened holiday retail season include an earlier start to holiday promotions, new collaborations to shorten delivery windows and pare their cost, a proliferation of pop-up [...]
October employment numbers show Utah’s economy still soaring—an unemployment rate of only 2.5 percent, with 51,200 jobs added since October 2018. Utah’s private sector industry groups such as professional and business services, and information lead the way. To help keep our economic engine humming, I recently voted to renew the U.S. export credit agency to [...]
As Shelter the Homeless is following through on plans to build and staff new resource centers and has closed the Road Home shelter on Rio Grande Avenue, some are expressing concern that people in need will literally be left out in the cold. These concerns are borne out of empathy and compassion — great qualities [...]
It was April 1990 and there I sat in my Toyota Corolla with my sister by my side. The car was packed to the gills with all my worldly possessions along with a case of Molson Golden in the U-Haul car-top. One must understand, where I was going I wasn’t sure I’d ever get to [...]
