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With acquisition, Extra Space is nation's largest

The big just keep getting bigger. Salt Lake City-based Extra Space Storage has acquired Life Storage Inc. in an all-stock transaction that pegs the self-storage giant’s pro forma equity market capitalization at approximately $36 billion and total enterprise value at…

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Actors' & writers' strikes likely to hold up film productions in Utah

Brice Wallace Another “Animal” could be prowling in Utah in late summer. A sequel to the 2001 Rob Schneider comedy film “The Animal” recently was approved for a state tax credit incentive, but strikes by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America likely…

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Pacific Islanders launch their own Utah chamber

The Pacific Islander community in the Salt Lake City area has formed its own chamber of commerce, which launched on June 30. As a 501(c)(6) nonprofit chamber, the organization “is committed to uniting and uplifting the community while prioritizing the common good over personal…

Park City Chamber announces 2023 Sustainable Tourism Grant recipients

The Park City Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau has announced the recipients of its first-ever Sustainable Tourism Grants. Candidates were awarded up to $30,000 each to fund sustainable tourism projects that will support the objectives outlined in the chamber’s Sustainable…

Entrata acquires Logan-based apartment financial firm Rent Dynamics

Entrata, a Lehi-based company specializing in technology for the multifamily housing industry, has acquired Logan-based Rent Dynamics in a move it says will benefit property owners and operators and their residents. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, although…

Report: Home price growth lowest rate in 11 years

Annual U.S. single-family home price growth slowed for the 12th straight month in May, falling to a 1.4 percent year-over-year increase, according to data released by Irvine, California-based CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions…

Utah Women Tech Council names the finalists for its 16th annual awards

The Utah Women Tech Council has named the finalists for its 2023 Women Tech Awards. Now in its 16th year, the program is designed to “celebrate the inspirational women in our technology community and recognize the talent that surrounds us,” according to the organization’s…

Foreclosures near pre-COVID levels

California-based real estate data platform ATTOM reports that nationwide foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — rose 13 percent in the first six months of 2023 from the same time period a year ago and were up 185 percent from the same…

Six keys to multiplying your success through highly effective storytelling

Richard Tyson Several years ago, I was on a Delta Airlines flight to Chicago for business. As we approached the runway at O’Hare International Airport, the aircraft suddenly lurched hard to the left. I was seated over the left wing, and with momentary terror, I saw that wing…

Work Daze: It’s lonely at the bottom

Bob Goldman It was Elvis who did it. You remember, I’m sure, the lyrics to “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” “Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare? Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there? Is your heart filled with pain? Shall I come back again? Tell me, dear,…

Middle-market business leaders are holding their own through inflation

Drew Yergensen Each quarter, KeyBank surveys 400 owners and executives of businesses across the country with $10 million to $2 billion in revenues about the economy and its impact on their businesses. The most recent survey revealed that while some concerns have lifted — most…

Go Utah's year: Good, but not as good

Brice Wallace While a state agency is boasting it had a “historic and prosperous year” during the most recent fiscal year, most of its incentivized economic development project figures were substantially off from the record-setting prior year. A recent news release from the…

UEOC makes study of AI impact a priority of several committees

Brice Wallace AI has been quite the buzzword lately, and a state commission is looking into several elements of the revolutionary technology. Among the top priorities for the Unified Economic Opportunity Commission is investigating AI’s impact on workforce, education and data…

Utahns are feeling better about things

Utah’s consumer sentiment rose in June to its highest level in more than a year, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s Survey of Utah Consumer Sentiment released last week. The index rose to 76.3 last month, up from 71.0 in May. A similar survey by the University of…

Three must-haves to survive and thrive as an economic downturn looms

Nate Callister Following the end of the global pandemic and amid a steady diet of Fed interest rate hikes, businesses are reevaluating their financial direction and priorities to adjust to a “new normal.” For months, economists and news reports have alluded to a looming economic…

New firm relaunches Brydge

Park City’s Brydge Technologies, a maker of keyboards, docking stations and hubs for Apple iPad and Microsoft Surface Pro tablets, folded earlier this year with its brand name, assets and intellectual property being sold in a foreclosure proceeding. Now, a new company,…

Study finds many government IT departments are vulnerable

Thirty-six percent of government IT departments nationwide do not have a documented disaster recovery plan, according to a new study released by Arcserve, a provider of backup, recovery and data storage solutions based in Draper. The findings are included in the first segment of…

Survey: AI generating excitement and fear

Even as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an unavoidable part of the cultural landscape, its role in the workplace hasn’t been fully defined, and that lack of clarity is leaving some employees on edge, according to new research from Provo-based experience management platform…

Work Daze: Summer vacations or sucker vacations? You decide

Bob Goldman It’s been a tough year, and you’ve been working hard. But now it’s summer and you know what that means: Vacation, baby! Vacation! Do you deserve a week or 10 of primo vacay? Most def. Should you take it? No way! Whatever amount of vacation time is allotted to you,…

Consumers like old-fashioned, live customer service best

Americans aren’t very tolerant of poor customer service, according to a new study from St. George’s TCN Inc., a cloud-based call center platform for enterprises, contact centers, business process outsource companies and collection agencies. TCN’s “Consumer Insights about…

Innovate Utah: NEW IDEAS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM UTAH COMPANIES

Utah startup Sego Innovations has begun marketing its Sego Solar Charger . Founded by a team of origami experts and engineers, Sego is based at Research Park on the University of Utah campus. Founders Jacob Sheffield and Ian Esplin developed the origami-based solar charger after…

Delta bolsters SLC hub with major pilot training facility

Brice Wallace Delta Air Lines is spreading its wings in Salt Lake City, having recently broken ground on what will be the first pilot training center outside its headquarters city of Atlanta. The 47,413-square-foot center adjacent to Salt Lake City International Airport,…

Freedman named to replace Hansen, lead WTC Utah

An entrepreneur with major international experience will take over World Trade Center Utah at the end of the month. WTC Utah’s board of directors has selected Jonathan Freedman as the organization’s new president and CEO, succeeding Miles Hansen, who this spring accepted an…

Nation's only fluorspar processing plant coming to Delta

A company with the only permitted fluorspar mine in the U.S. has announced it will spend $19 million on a first-in-the-nation processing facility in Delta. Ares Strategic Mining’s 22,000-square-foot project will create 40 jobs in Millard County. The British Columbia-based…

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