Yearly Archives: 2009

Salt Lake City, UT - November 4, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) -- In tough financial times it seems plenty of companies are claiming they can save Utah homeowners from foreclosure.

DENVER, CO - September 2, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently announced the City of Provo will receive more than $3.1 million to support community development and produce more affordable housing.

WASHINGTON, DC - July 16, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today approved the plans for 12 grantees in Utah to use more than $3.2 million in federal grants to help stabilize and revive local neighborhoods, rehabilitate affordable housing, and improve key public facilities. Funded through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program will support state and local community development while stimulating employment.

Parsippany, NJ - May 5, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Reckitt Benckiser held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Logistics and Custom Manufacturing Center on May 5, 2009 in Tooele, Utah. Construction will take place over the course of 2009, with the site expected to begin operation in the first quarter of 2010.

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - May 6, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — A snapshot survey shows that Utah’s total homeless population increased by eight percent while chronic homelessness decreased by nearly five percent since last year. In Salt Lake County where more than 200 housing units have been provided for the chronically homeless, there has been a 24 percent reduction from last year.

Salt Lake City, UT - March 27, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — The Utah Attorney General's Office today charged the CEO of Utah Financial Inc., Midvale, Utah, and his wife with 18 second-degree felony counts for allegedly running a lucrative mortgage fraud scheme.

HOUSTON, TX - March 2, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that it has opened a new development and investment office in Salt Lake City, Utah. The office will be headed by Dustin (“Dusty”) Harris, who transferred in February from Hines’ development office in Orange County, CA.

Salt Lake City, Utah - February 5, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) – Back in 2007, the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund Board approved projects to build 713 units of affordable housing.

Salt Lake City, UT - January 27, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) – Governor Jon Huntsman will speak Friday, January 30 at the annual launch of the Pamela Atkinson Homeless Trust Fund tax campaign.