This is the power of Utah’s heritage and Utah’s future.
An innovative riverside district, part of Salt Lake City’s Westside. An emerging epicenter for the city. A gateway to downtown and a pathway to the Jordan River. The once and future headquarters of Rocky Mountain Power. A place where business-smart meets community-minded. Where city-destination meets family-friendly. Where light rail meets river trail. Where nature meets neighborhood. And where there’s a good chance workday will meet gameday.
This is the power of together.
The power of a renewed purpose
If it weren’t for the fact that one of the city’s key power stations was built on this spot in the 1950s, the area where North Temple Street crosses the Jordan River would have become one of Salt Lake’s most prominent districts long ago. Then again, we’ve learned a lot about placemaking over the past decades, how to create engaging experiences and real gravity. Now we can reimagine this one-of-a-kind location with a renewed purpose: creating a one-of-a-kind destination teeming with promise.
It begins
with a river
A restored Jordan River, environmentally whole and safely activated for the public. A redeveloped industrial site. A reinvigorated Utah State Fairpark. A new kind of city neighborhood. Safe. Spirited. Family-friendly and nature-connected. A place that lets you spend more time outdoors, less time in traffic. And a place where the benefits ripple outward, helping to support the wider Utah community, economy and environment.
River facts
The Jordan River is 51 miles long, beginning at the outlet of Utah Lake and flowing north to the Great Salt Lake.
The river’s emergence coincides with early human history in the region. The river was described by the Indigenous Shoshone and Goshute peoples as “Pia Okwai,” which means “Big Flow.”
There are 13 types of fish native to the Jordan River, the most common historically being the Bonneville cutthroat trout.
Most of the population of Utah—almost 2.5 million in total today across Utah, Salt Lake and Davis counties—live near the Jordan River and its tributaries.
More than 200 species of birds live around and visit the Jordan River because of its combination of water, riparian and upland habitat, and abundant food sources.
The Jordan River Parkway today is a greenway of parks, open space, natural lands and trails managed by local, state and federal agencies.
The seven major tributaries of the Jordan River in Utah are Little Cottonwood Creek, Big Cottonwood Creek, Mill Creek, Parleys Creek, Emigration Creek, Red Butte Creek and City Creek.
Pioneer settlers created a network of canals in the last half of the 19th century to divert water from the Jordan River for agricultural and industrial uses.
The river was named “Western Jordan” in 1847 by a Mormon pioneer settler, Heber C. Kimball, because of its resemblance to the Jordan River in the Middle East.
It may not be a huge river, but over the centuries the Jordan has made a big impact on the region. Want to know more about “the emerald ribbon” of the Salt Lake Valley?
The day when you can walk from home to office, office to river, river to ballgame, ballgame to home.
It's coming
A head for business, a heart for community
Among all the places where a company might locate in this fast-growing valley, the Power District enters the picture as a uniquely diverse, shovel-ready, future-focused city place of scale. With the Jordan River at its doorstep, jobs at its core and community woven throughout.
In fact, the new headquarters of Rocky Mountain Power, Utah’s regional utility company, is rising up as we speak — bringing with it exciting and inspired architecture, inviting plaza spaces and fascinating educational features (a huge working flywheel that teaches about energy storage, for one). And it’s scheduled to open in 2027, making it a perfect introductory statement about the company and the district.
Powered by partnership
The Power District is a true private-public partnership. The Larry H. Miller Company, working shoulder-to-shoulder with the State of Utah, Salt Lake City and Westside community leadership, has assembled a plan that addresses a wide range of needs and cultivates an abundance of opportunities, including being the preferred site for Major League Baseball expansion. All rooted in our mission to create places where life takes place.
Talk about a plan coming together.
Power District news
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Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation and Larry H. Miller Real Estate step up to support Westside flood recovery with more than $125,000 in combined aid and materials.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (October 27, 2025)—Salt Lake’s downtown is expanding west with The Power District, Larry H. Miller Real Estate’s 100+ acre mixed-use development and hopeful site of
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Larry H. Miller Company employees, family and friends work to restore beauty along the Jordan River See the full story at deseret.com
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CNBC’s Diana Olick reports on a burgeoning city in the United States.
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The Salt Lake City Council’s approval of the Jordan River Fairpark District Zone is an important step in the development process for the Power District. We appreciate Mayor Mendenhall,
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