Business View Magazine | September 2019

297 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 in Spanish Fork, probably in the community’s history, is a retail development called Canyon Creek. In that project, the city is a partner with the Woodbury Corporation, the largest retail developer in the State of Utah. Right now, there’s about 700,000 square feet that is complete or in construction. When the development is done, it will be about 1.1 or 1.2 million square feet, so there’s another third of that development to go. Our focus, as city staff, along with our elected officials, has been trying to make sure we had a balanced tax base and, largely because of that, we put considerable effort into helping to make sure that the Canyon Creek development happened and to make sure it happened as expeditiously as possible. “The community has loved having additional shopping opportunities in Spanish Fork, and it’s been great to read the emails and comments from folks that have appreciated having additional restaurants and entertainment, and things they simply hadn’t enjoyed before. Of course, along with that, the stability that it has brought the community through additional sales tax revenue and jobs has been great to see, as well. Intermountain Healthcare, the largest healthcare provider in the State of Utah, is building a full- service hospital in Spanish Fork that will be open in November 2020. And that will be the last piece of the puzzle that the community has needed to be a fully self-sufficient city.” With mounting new jobs and residents, housing starts have also been ramping up. “We issued about 480 building permits for new homes in 2018; we think we’ll be right at that same number in 2019,” Anderson reports. “And those homes are largely being constructed in a variety of different projects throughout the community. The largest residential development in the city, which will have some 600 homes at buildout, is called Legacy Farms. Fieldstone Homes is the primary homebuilder building in Legacy Farms, today. In addition to Fieldstone Homes, some of the other significant homebuilders working in Spanish Fork include Ivory Homes, Salisbury Homes, Arive Homes, Richmond American Homes, Lighthouse SPANI SH FORK , UTAH