Frisco Building to be Torn Down, Replaced

By Ashley Dickson
Summit Daily News
July 22, 2008

FRISCO — Things will soon be looking a little “greener” on the corner of Summit Boulevard and Granite Street, as construction crews prepare to demolish an abandoned shopping complex and break-ground on a new development.

Water Tower Place — which replaces the 1973-era Frisco Boardwalk building — will offer 42 housing units and more than 14,000 square feet of commercial space and will be constructed under the Green Globe Standard, marking Frisco’s first certified green project.

Lin said folks from the East Coast, who would ordinarily visit the county in summer or winter months, find that technology often allows them to work from Colorado. This also affects to Summit County’s increasing resident population.

The top-down procedure for gathering information — identifying migration, births and deaths from the national to local levels — helps ensure against part-time residents being counted in the local data.

Nationally, Houston’s 2.2 million population had the greatest numerical increase between 2006 and 2007, growing by about 39,000 people. New Orleans’ population — in Hurricane Katrina’s wake — managed to hit the nation’s highest rates of both loss and gain for a large city between 2000 and 2007. Between 2006 and 2007, it increased by 13.8 percent to about 239,000. Its population was about 484,000 in 2000.

Denver is the nation’s 26th largest city, with 588,349 residents. And New York remains number one with about 8.3 million people.

The U.S. population is about 304.5 million and the Earth has about 6.7 billion people.

Robert Allen can be contacted at (970) 668-4628 or rallen@summitdaily.com.