🌱 New Real Salt Lake Coach + New Amazon Center In NW SLC

Salt Lake City UT

13 December, 2021

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Welcome back, Salt Lake City! It's Tuesday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on in Salt Lake City today. First, today's weather: A couple of afternoon showers. High: 50 Low: 27. Here are the top 5 stories for today in Salt Lake City: Real Salt Lake has named former USA international, 2001 MLS Best XI player Pablo Mastroeni as the Club's permanent head coach, signaling a new era for Salt Lake's Major League Soccer team. Per the press release, "Pablo's ability to build a culture and instill belief within the Club has resulted in the most tight-knit locker room seen in years," adding that the team was excited for him to bring that kind of culture to the entire RSL organization. (RSL) Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City recently unveiled its new newborn ICU, and it's an impressive upgrade. Doubling in size, this state-of-the-art NICU is equipped with the most modern technology designed for tiny infants in critical conditions and is the "most highly specialized NICU in the Intermountain West" anticipated to not only be an essential medical resource to the local community but for the entire region. (KUTV 2) Amazon launched its first same-day fulfillment center in Salt Lake City, joining about a dozen other major cities, but marking a first of its kind for Utah. The 150,000 square foot facility in the Northwest Quadrant of SLC aims to hire 250 employees, attracting applicants with health benefits and tuition reimbursement. KSL reported that since 2010 Amazon has invested more than $2 billion in salaries and real estate in Salt Lake City, and now, after this fulfillment center, 8,000 jobs. (KSL.com)Warming temperatures resulting in a later ski season year over year have ski resorts reacting creatively to the changing climate and what that means for the quality of snow. For some that means more and better snow blowers to help make enough snow for the slopes, but many resorts are also investing significantly in marketing their slopes for mountain biking, building more trails, hosting events, and other activities that can be promoted throughout the entire year. (Fox 13)Developers still seem to have their eye on the Ballpark neighborhood of Salt Lake recently sharing plans for a new complex of six rental townhome buildings there. After approval and construction, the 47 one-and-two-bedroom townhomes would be the first multi-family housing construction west of 300 West on 1700 South. (Building Salt Lake) Today's Salt Lake City Daily is brought to you in part by our friends at Ring, the home security company. Ring does a lot more than doorbells: check out their full suite of smart home products at Ring.com. And thank you Ring for helping to make local news happen in Salt Lake City! Today in Salt Lake City: See the wonder of the holidays in superb window displays with a Nutcracker theme from the warmth being inside Salt Lake's iconic hotel. It's the Holiday Window Stroll at The Grand America. (4:00 PM)It's the "Lights that gleam while the animals dream" at Salt Lake City's Hogle Zoo in the annual favorite, Zoolights. (7:00 PM) Hear Skyline High School's choir and orchestra holiday concert tonight at the school's auditorium. (7:00 PM) From my notebook: Fancy a winter excursion in the foothills? Check out how SLC Public Lands' brand new 18th Avenue Trailhead kiosk looks with a fresh dusting of snow. (Twitter)Finding the neighborhoods that go all in decorating their homes with lights, blowup lawn displays, and other ostentatious, gaudy, extravagant, and altogether impressive decorative displays can be enough to make you glad you're not keeping up with those Joneses. Salt Lake Magazine has the goods on where to go to in and near Salt Lake City to catch the showiest home holiday light displays around. (Salt Lake Magazine)SLC Mayor Mendenhall is sharing the excitement of naming the city's newest snow plow, offering her preferences for which one wins. See her picks and find the link to vote on her post. (Twitter)The popular TV series "Yellowstone" starring Kevin Costner has many viewers pining for the wide-open spaces of Montana, where the story takes place. But the fact is about 75% of the show's first three seasons are filmed right here in Utah. Here's what Utah lost when the show left to actually film in Big Sky country, but also what it stands to gain. (Deseret News) Loving the Salt Lake City Daily? Here are all the ways you can get more involved: Send a friend or neighbor this link so they can subscribe Get your local business listed in front of readers Send me a news tip or suggestion at [email protected] Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Tuesday. I'll see you back in your inbox tomorrow morning with a new update! — Joseph Peterson About me: Joseph is a writer and marketing communications strategist with a degree in Mass Communication and Public Relations from the University of Utah. He's keen on city life, public libraries, national parks, and promoting events that build community.