{"id":347,"date":"2017-09-13T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/?p=347"},"modified":"2017-09-13T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T22:40:27","slug":"economic-development-monthly-report-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/2017\/09\/13\/economic-development-monthly-report-august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Development \u2013 Monthly Report \u2013 August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commercial Properties (vacancies, new businesses, etc.): <\/strong><\/p>\n

Timberline Meats<\/u>:\u00a0 This business has been rolling along for a while now and is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon.\u00a0 Management reports that sales have been slowly and steadily increasing since they opened at the beginning of July.\u00a0 If sales numbers continue along these lines, Timberline could be the flagship store for a Sandy-based chain of regional meat markets at some point in the future.<\/p>\n

New retail space coming?<\/u>:\u00a0 We have a pre-app coming up in September for a new multi-tenant retail building in the downtown core that could potentially provide downtown Sandy with another forty-six hundred square feet of retail space.\u00a0 This project is not yet guaranteed to happen, so I don\u2019t want to give away any other details for now.\u00a0 Watch this space.<\/p>\n

Chariteas<\/u>:\u00a0 Unbeknownst to most of Sandy, this business as we know it closed its doors back in July.\u00a0 The building is being remodeled inside and out, and will re-open before the end of the year as a \u201chealthy market and tea bar\u201d, but will be under new ownership.\u00a0 Chariteas is transforming into a full service tea importing business.\u00a0 They will have a business office on the mountain and have retained two employees from the store, and the owner will be spending more time overseas cultivating the business.<\/p>\n

We are very appreciative of Ms. Chalmer\u2019s nine year run here in downtown Sandy, and wish her continued success as her business evolves.\u00a0 She has always been an active participant in Sandy Main Street and the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce, and the downtown business community will miss her immensely.\u00a0 However, we also look forward to the new business that is currently setting up shop in the building and have high hopes for their success.\u00a0 More to come\u2026<\/p>\n

The Elusive Trout<\/u>:\u00a0 We have approached the new owner of this building to see if he might be interested in a fa\u00e7ade improvement project to make a few upgrades to both buildings.\u00a0 He is very enthusiastic about the concept, and would like to pursue a project (potentially this year even) if he can figure out a way to finance it, which he seems fairly confident about.\u00a0 The Planning Director and I walked the property with him and suggested a number of inexpensive to moderate fixes.\u00a0 We also suggested a phased approach to rehabilitating the entire property, with a second phase involving the demolition of the residential unit behind the Trout and replacing it with a new parking lot.<\/p>\n

We are in the process of developing a scope of work for the first phase this potential project.\u00a0 I will update again once we have a few bids and a signed contract with the property owner.<\/p>\n

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Project work:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n