As home-building plunged, a remarkable boom in government-funded, labor-intensive construction was taking hold, and it wasn’t just the headline-grabbing I-15 project in Utah County, the $350 million extension of TRAX or the National Security Agency’s mega-data-center at Camp Williams.
Big as those projects were, they were only a fraction of $7 billion worth of public construction projects undertaken by local, state and federal governments (sometimes with the assistance of private donations), as well as by at least 20 school districts, during the past five years. Salt Lake Tribune
