Provo is Utah County’s Central Business District. Brandon Fugal on Jessop’s Journeys

(DOUG JESSOP – JESSOP’ JOURNEYS) If you travel up and down interstate 15, I assurance you have observed Brandon Fugal’s name on signs. As the Chairman of Colliers Global, Brandon is what I like to contact the “keeper of the crystal ball” when it will come to financial developments.

A single of the biggest traits Brandon likes to discuss about is Provo. In accordance to him, “Provo is Utah County’s Central Business enterprise District.” We frequented about a new making climbing in downtown Provo referred to as “Freedom Commons,” and is the initially “Class A” workplace space setting up in Provo in over a 10 years (view the video to get the rest of the information).

My aim with Jessop’s Journeys is to discover “people, places and factors you may not know about.” Brandon shared the adhering to details about economic development in Provo.

• As Utah’s 2^nd oldest town (launched in 1850), Provo has constantly been and carries on to be the center of Utah County / Utah Valley
• Most significant Town in Utah Co. – 120,000 pop.
• Center for instruction, healthcare, govt, transportation, hospitality
• Enjoyable, livable, historic downtown (the only 1 in Utah County)

There are far more than 20,000 integrated communities in America. Whilst several are prospering, other people are struggling. Provo City is setting the metropolis typical, not just locally, but nationally, as demonstrated by its remaining named the nation’s 2001’s Very best-Run City.

So what is the solution sauce that Provo City has disprotected that has attained them the moniker “Central Organization District of Utah County?”

Metropolis leaders connect with it “The Provo Gain.” What really don’t you know about Provo? You can signal up for a regular monthly electronic mail at ProvoConnect.com to come across out.

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Everyone has a tale. I strongly sense that “stories have power”. Possibilities are that if you are going via some thing, that anyone else possibly has as nicely. The shared encounters we humans have can help every other. That my close friend tends to make the issue that tales “help us have an understanding of each other.”

You never have to agree with absolutely everyone, but in my viewpoint, if persons would acquire a lot more time receiving to recognizing additional about other people and the place they are coming from, we just may well find out that we have additional similarities than variances.

It’s my honor to be capable to share, Jessop’s Journal, a 30-minute selection of Powerful, Favourable and Inspirational Tales each individual Sunday morning at 10 a.m. on ABC4 to all of Utah alongside with sections of Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona. Jessop’s Journal is also offered around the globe at JessopsJournal.com.

With yet another entry into Jessop’s Journeys, “People, Places and Items You might not know about,” I’m Doug Jessop.

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