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Utah Restaurant Opens 12th Location

LEHI, Utah - Chuck-A-Rama has opened its doors at its newest location in Lehi. The restaurant is the 12th for the chain throughout Utah and Idaho.

“We are grateful to open our doors in Lehi,” said Duane Moss, CEO of Chuck-A-Rama. “We had been looking in the area for probably ten years, but couldn’t find the right piece of land. We were excited when we found this property right on Lehi’s historic Main Street.”



Chuck-A-Rama is one of Utah’s first family-owned restaurant chains and was founded in 1966 by Don Moss, his father-in-law, Alva Greene, and brother-in-law, Wayne Chamberlain. Today, 48 years later, the chain is run by the children of Don Moss and a team of employees who have been with the organization for 20, 30, and even 40-plus years.

Chuck-A-Rama boasts hundreds of choices of appetizers, entrées, desserts, and drinks prepared daily. Many of the recipe’s have come directly or indirectly from employees.

“Our recipes are traditional hand-me-down recipes from the mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers, of people inside and outside of our organization,” Moss said. “Our food is a representation of Utah’s pioneer heritage. Each dish has a story behind it. I can remember the German immigrant who perfected our potato salad and carrot salad. Mike Johanson, our president, has vivid memories from his childhood of his grandmother preparing rice pudding. We prepare that same rice pudding daily.”

The Lehi restaurant is one of only two locations with a life-size chuckwagon on display. The Lehi chuckwagon was built by restoring an 1864 John Deere covered wagon and then adding all of the components which chuckwagon inventor Charles Goodnight used when he created the first chuckwagon in 1866.

“We are so excited to have Chuck-A-Rama in Lehi,” said Mayor Bert Wilson of Lehi City. "Besides being a beautiful building inside and out, the food is great and everyone can enjoy the variety. I personally welcome them along with our citizens [of Lehi] to a great and long-lasting relationship with good food and hungry customers.”

The Lehi Chuck-A-Rama is located at 1050 East Main Street in Lehi off the Lehi Main Street exit.




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For more information please contact:
JAMIE TREVORT jamie@chuck-a-rama.com | 801.433.3663
DUANE MOSS duane@chuck-a-rama.com | 801.433.3663
MARK MATHEWS mm@rimrock.us | 801.748.1625

KSL Article: New Mixed-Use Cottonwood Development Reinvigorates Holladay Community

The following is an exerpt from a KSL article about Rimrock's recently completed Holladay Village Center. Check it out.

HOLLADAY — When the recession hit in 2008, communities up and down the Wasatch Front felt the economic tremors.

The timing couldn’t have been worse for the city of Holladay, newly incorporated just nine years earlier and now in the middle of tearing down the old Cottonwood Mall. City Manager Randy Fitts was worried.

“I think we started to do demolition that summer, and when the bottom fell out, we just thought, well we’ve got some problems,” Fitts said.

Plans for the 57-acre privately owned mall site were immediately put on hold, leaving the city’s hands tied. But Fitts and other Holladay leaders didn’t give up. Earlier this year, Fitts and Mayor Rob Dahle watched as the Holladay Village Center opened its doors less than a block away from City Hall.

The mixed-use shopping, dining and office center is quickly filling up with boutiques, a salon, bike shop and several popular local restaurants. Andy Evans manages the newest Caputo’s location.

“We knew that there was demand here in Holladay," Evans said. "Plenty of customers that come downtown that wanted us out here, and so here we are.”

Just across the plaza, Lunatic Fringe stylist Cliff Simons likes the look of the salon’s bottom line and appreciates the convenience for his customers.

“Everybody that lives up on top of the hill have to travel down to the downtown area or Sugar House, so honestly this location is perfect.”

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Unexpected Findings Set Groundwork for New Community in the Brickyard

Construction Uncovers Part of Salt Lake City’s Past

In 2006, Salt Lake City-based developer, The Ritchie Group, purchased the Brickyard Office Tower, a seven-story, 100,000 SF office building located in the historical Brickyard neighborhood of southeast Salt Lake City. In 2011, as the partners were studying some scheduled maintenance to the on site parking garage, a better use for the entire site dawned on them. Already actively engaged in several multifamily site acquisitions, the Ritchie Group determined that the east bench location of the Brickyard area was ideal for multifamily housing.

A commemorative plaque of Interstate Brick Company at the base of the Smith Kiln Chimney at 1178 East Brickyard Road

“We had been looking all over the valley for a good multifamily site,” said Ryan Ritchie, partner at The Ritchie Group. “We had a few irons in the fire but nothing concrete. As we considered the maintenance and repairs required for the parking garage, we realized that a shared use between office and multifamily would be the quintessential home run for a mixed-use development. We were excited to learn that the site was already zoned for high density multifamily and that a mixed-use project was very much in line with what the city wanted to see constructed in the Brickyard area. It was a nice surprise.”

Rendering of Element 31 at Brickyard

“The excavators found remnants of a few foundation walls, kilns, tunnels, and thousands of bricks from the predecessor of Interstate Brick Company, which relocated in the early 1980’s to its current location in the southwest Salt Lake Valley” Ritchie said. “It was pretty interesting to unearth a part of Salt Lake City’s history. We would have loved to preserve some of those kilns but they were literally falling apart with the touch of the track hoe’s shovel. The new project will include about 40,000 new bricks, cooked in the Interstate kilns, to give it a touch of nostalgia.”

Since its days as the largest brick producer in the West, the Brickyard has become one of Salt Lake City’s most active retail and office developments. The new community, Element 31 at Brickyard, will add 208 luxury apartments.

Aerial photo of construction on Element 31 at Brickyard

Rimrock began construction on the project in late 2013 with demolition of the parking structure, and excavators soon discovered even more surprises—thousands of them.

“Our goal for this community is to have our residents feel like they’re living at a resort,” said Ritchie. “The area is already thriving but we felt we could add a little more vibrancy by providing resort-like finishes and amenities that aren’t common in Salt Lake City.”

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

When complete, Element 31 at Brickyard amenities will include:

• Rooftop deck with fire pits and grow boxes
• Fitness center with rooms for cardio, strength training, yoga, and kickboxing and access to over 200 fitness-on-request training videos from a dropdown screen
• Contemporary, Myrtha-pool and jacuzzi, sundeck, and chaise lounges
• Clubhouse gaming wall with dual 50-inch screens and consoles and a separate room with a 100-inch screen for movies
• Ground-level dog park, dog run, and dog washing station
• Gourmet clubhouse kitchen
• Clubhouse billiards
• 100 percent covered parking and security controlled access

When complete, Element 31 at Brickyard finishes will include:

• Modern plumbing and lighting fixtures
• Contemporary European box cabinets with stainless steel pulls
• White and grey granite and quartz countertops
• Stainless steel appliances

For more information please contact:
Ryan Ritchie at info@element31apts.com
Mark Mathews at mm@rimrock.us

Home 2 Suites Opens in South Jordan

Construction of Home 2 Suites by Hilton near the RiverPark Corporate Center in South Jordan completed Q4 2013. The hotel marks the 31st completed Home 2 Suites by Hilton nationwide, and the third built by Rimrock. Rimrock is currently under construction on Home 2 Suites hotels in Lehi and West Valley City – the latter being an expansion of an earlier project.

Blighted Medical Office Building Receives "Green" Facelift

Local developer chooses to salvage and reuse, instead of demolish and rebuild.

Millcreek, UT -- July 22, 2013 -- Construction is underway on a familiar office building in the St. Mark’s Hospital district. Sixty-five thousand square feet of rentable office space in the Doxey-Hatch Medical Center located at 1255 East 3900 South in Salt Lake will be demolished. The remaining sixty-eight thousand square feet will be completely renovated, injecting new life into the area landscape.

Rendering of the Blighted Medical Office (Doxie Hatch)

Rockworth Companies, LLC, a Sandy based real estate firm, purchased the building in late 2012 at a time when it was approximately 88 percent vacant.

“Minus the concrete structure, the whole building was obsolete in every way shape and form,” said Chas Johnson, project manager for Rockworth. “We either had to scrape the entire building and start from scratch, or salvage what we could and redesign it. We felt the latter was the most responsible option for the environment and for future tenants.”

Rockworth hired the Richardson Design Partnership and Rimrock Construction to update both operating efficiencies and aesthetic appeal.

“The building offered a great design problem,” said Jeff Byers, principal at the Richardson Design Partnership. “How do you take a utilitarian building with distinct materials and minimal windows, and open it up to have a modern, light-filled space without compromising the building structure? We were able to create a more inviting and open building by using the existing structural frame work, and adding a new envelope with fresh materials and finishes to the exterior face of the existing building.”



Construction of the project will follow a six-month schedule and is estimated to cost approximately $ 4.2 million. By reusing the existing structure, Rockworth is able to keep the cost of construction down which ultimately translates into lower rents for future tenants.

“We are very familiar with the medical community in that part of town and many doctors have updated their offices as much as possible, but at some point there needs to be a massive overhaul,” Johnson said. “We are the first group that is willing to come in, retrofit a building, and provide a completely new interior and exterior which will allow us to keep doctors in their same geographic location, and at rents that are still favorable to them.”

Though annually recognized as one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States, citizens and officials throughout the Salt Lake Valley have raised concerns about the need to not only develop new neighborhoods and commercial areas, but also redevelop existing neighborhoods and areas with strong demographics that suffer from building obsolescence. Pre-leasing continues as crews begin the $4.2 million renovationn on the Doxey-Hatch building in Millcreek. Half of the structure will be demolished and the remaining half will be retrofitted introducing affordable medical office space to medical professionals in the St. Marks Hospital community. Rockworth believes by reinvesting in these areas, the long-term viability of historically relevant neighborhoods will be ensured as well as promote similar reinvestment of surrounding parcels.

"It’s been a real privilege to be a part of the design team on the Doxey-Hatch building," said Justin John, vice president of pre-construction services at Rimrock. "In my experience, developers and builders sometimes get a bad reputation for disrupting a natural setting and animal habitat by building a building with a big parking lot. This building is recycled as much as possible. Rockworth is actually adding more green space. It’s encouraging to see some fresh ideas."

The Doxey-Hatch building, renamed as the Evergreen Office Plaza, is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2014.



ABOUT ROCKWORTH COMPANIES, LLC

Founded in 1996, Rockworth Companies, LLC is a single family, multi-family, retail, and professional office developer throughout the Western United States. Rockworth’s primary focus is on developing housing and office space in underserved markets bearing in mind fiscal and environmental responsibility.

For more information about Rockworth, please visit rockworthco.com

Senior Care Market Takes Giant Step in South Utah County

The first major Senior Care Facility in Spanish Fork opens doors.

Spanish Fork, UT -- August 16, 2013 -- Senior care availability nearly doubled in Spanish Fork in the month of July. Why? The neighborhood around Larsen Elementary School is welcoming a new 96-unit assisted living community. The owners and managers of Legacy House of Spanish Fork hope to fill in some of the void in health care options that exist in the surrounding area.



“There is not another facility in South Utah County like it,” said Steve Broadbent, project manager for the Sandy based Rockworth Companies, LLC. “We are providing a home-like atmosphere, fun social activities, and the highest quality care.”The community, located just southeast of the intersection of U.S. High way 6 and Center Street, features a hair salon, movie theater, library, grand piano, and dining room on the inside, and a courtyard with a deck and patio on the outside. Additionally, shuttles are available for residents to travel up Spanish Fork Canyon, to the grocery store, to the LDS Temple, and various other locations.

“The community is embedded within a neighborhood made up of single-family homes,” Broadbent said. “We believe this will only enhance the residential climate we are trying to create for the residents. We just want them to be comfortable and live life as they always have.”

Rockworth hired the Richardson Design Partnership and Rimrock Construction to design and build the community. Western States Lodging and Management (WSLM) of Salt Lake City will be the manager. Legacy House of Spanish Fork will be the first WSLM managed community in Utah County.



“We are pleased to be opening our first community in Utah County,” said Cory Hafen, director of senior operations for WSLM. “We are excited to partner with neighboring businesses, excited about the number of jobs this brings to the area, and excited to bring the Legacy brand and services to the south end of the valley.”

Rockworth and WSLM believe the Spanish Fork community should feel comfortable leaving loved ones in the care of Legacy House professionals.

“We feel we’ve assembled a team that will meet and exceed the expectations of the surrounding community,” Broadbent said.

“The neighbors and city officials have been very helpful and welcoming. We want to give them our best in return.”

Legacy House of Spanish Fork is located at
1449 East 150 South in Spanish Fork.


Article by Herald Extra about the Legacy House of Spanish Fork http://bit.ly/1xWd7C6


For more information, please visit legacyspanishfork.com.

Security National Breaks Ground on Class A Community in Sandy

Sandy Civic Center Area Welcomes Phase One of New Mixed-Use TOD

SALT LAKE CITY --December 13, 2013-- Security National Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: SNFCA) has broken ground on a 282 unit apartment community adjacent to the UTA TRAX Sandy Civic Station. The community represents the first phase of the company’s planned 40 acre mixed-use, transit-oriented development.

“We are very pleased that Security National has been able to design a development that works well for the property and adds to the city’s endeavor for new development in our Civic Center Area,” said Sandy City Mayor Tom Dolan. “Residents of the community will be close to the home of several corporate headquarters and some of the best retailing and restaurants in the country.”

Rendering of one of the buildings at Dry Creek at East Village

Dry Creek at East Village will feature three levels of class A apartment living space on top of one level of underground parking. Specialized workout rooms and lounges, a resort style pool and jacuzzi, a state-of-the-art clubhouse with a demonstration kitchen, and a private theater will complement direct connections to miles of hiking and biking trails, and UTA TRAX.

“Great care and effort has been spent during the design phase of this project to ensure that there is a seamless connection for the resident living in Dry Creek at East Village,” said Bryce Baker, managing director of corporate real estate for Security National. “Mobility to every aspect has been enhanced.”

Security National has owned the ground since 1991 and will continue to own and operate the existing cemetery and mortuary. Rimrock Construction and Beecher Walker Architects were hired to design and build the community and Alliance Residential Management will be the on-site manager. Dry Creek at East Village is slated to open its first building in the summer of 2014 and will be the first completed project under Sandy City’s new 30-Year Vision Plan.

Ashford Expansion in Highland Complete

Residents Begin Moving In New Year’s Day

HIGHLAND, UT--January 7, 2013--Phase two of a recently completed senior care community in Highland has opened its doors. The Ashford, which now offers assisted living in addition to memory care, began welcoming residents into new space Wednesday, Jan. 1.

“We are really excited to offer assisted living to the Highland community,” said Greg Nield, founding partner and manager of the Ashford. “A few months into the project, we analyzed with Rimrock whether or not it would be feasible to finish sooner than our original schedule suggested. We determined it was and ultimately hit our new target date. We’re grateful to have been able to keep the promises we have been making to resident families for months.”





Located across from Lone Peak High School at 10322 N. Country Blvd., the expansion includes 31 new assisted living units and an additional 15 memory care units to complement the existing 16 units of the original Ashford. Construction began in Q2 2013.

For more information about Ashford please visit ashfordmc.com.


 
The following is a Rimrock Release that announced the addition to Ashford Assisted Living


Highland Care Center Expands to Meet Increase in Alzheimer's Disease

HIGHLAND, UTAH -- June 27, 2013 -- One in three seniors will die with Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia according to the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2013 Facts and Figures. Additionally, it is estimated that 50,000 Utahns age 65 or older will suffer from Alzheimer’s in the year 2025. As the population of dementia sufferers continues to grow, residential memory care and assisted living construction is on the rise throughout Utah.

Greg Nield, owner and operator of Ashford Assisted Living and Memory Care in Highland, has plans to expand his operation to multiple locations. Recent trends showing an aging population and broader acceptance by the general public of the residential senior care concept give him the confidence to grow.

“We anticipate the need to continue growing over the next couple of decades as we see the baby boomer generation age,” Nield said. “Over time, we have seen the public be more open to and actually excited about assisted living whereas in the past, senior care had a stigma of a place you would never consider moving a loved one into unless there was absolutely no other option.”

Construction is underway on Nield’s 16-unit memory care community across from Lone Peak High School in Highland. The new phase includes 15 additional memory care units and 31 assisted living units, a new service at the community.

“We received several requests from people asking for regular assisted living at Ashford so we decided to expand our current operation,” Nield said. “We will be able to offer services for those who need regular assisted living as well as continue to offer the services for those with memory impairments such as Parkinson’s, Vascular Dementia, Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia.”

Rimrock Construction is the general contractor on the Ashford addition and according to Mark Hampton, principal at Rimrock, this is only the beginning of senior care construction growth in Utah.

“We have been approached by an increasing number of local and national memory care and assisted living operators who are looking to build in the Utah market,” said Hampton “With our extensive experience building senior care facilities, and the increasing need for such services, I see a large portion of our future work coming from the senior care market.”

The addition to Ashford is scheduled to be completed at the beginning of 2014 and Nield believes the community will be pleased with the finished product.

“Citizens in our community will find our services extremely helpful as their need arises.“ Nield said. “We want them to feel absolute confidence in our ability to care for their loved one.”

Aerial Photos of Current Projects

Rimrock recently had aerial photographs taken of a few projects we are building. We are grateful to those who have made these jobs possible as well as all of the projects we have been fortunate to be a part of – past, present, and upcoming.


Click on the photos to enlarge.

Hyatt & Marriott hotels and parking structure - Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah

Dry Creek at East Village - Sandy, Utah

Home 2 Suites - Lehi (Thanksgiving Point), Utah

Sagewood at Daybreak

Element 31 at Brickyard - Salt Lake City, Utah

Holladay Village Center - Holladay, Utah

Evergreen Office Plaza (Doxey Hatch Medical Center) - Millcreek, Utah