Now you can see them.

Set to classical music, a virtual tour of the LDS Church's 20-acre project is available on the Downtown Rising Web site at www.downtownrising.com/city creek/

The tour now offers color - in the crowds. In early versions, virtual shoppers and diners were homogeneous (you can guess the pigment). Now, people of color play supporting roles.

"You could enter this in Sundance," Salt Lake City Councilman Soren Simonsen told developers after a recent screening.

But, according to LDS Church Presiding Bishop H. David Burton, the short still could use an edit.

Midway through, the tour depicts a faux City Creek as a raging river. "That's the creek at flood level," Burton deadpanned during the City Council screening.

There is more creative license: Too many people tote lattes, not large sodas.

A walkable

City Creek Center?

Selling points for the $1.5 billion City Creek Center have been the open air, running streams and urban sounds. This is not your grandpa's mall, builders boast, rather a mixed-use masterpiece designed to draw foot traffic from downtown and beyond.

During an economic summit highlighting downtown's rebirth this week, City Creek Reserve President Mark Gibbons said junking the "hulking" parking garages built for the old malls was a top priority. The key is to create open vistas, Gibbons said, including six acres of landscaping - complete with a faux creek.

But even though the project promotes urban living and straddles TRAX, Utah's SUV-loving culture will not be forsaken.

Gibbons told a roomful of developers and business deans that the underground parking is designed to handle "an Expedition with a ski rack, for which, I'm sure, you'll be very grateful."

Davis commissioners

are model citizens

Who needs Paris, Milan and Tokyo when you have Farmington?

Davis County commissioners strutted down the runway in the latest haute couture - haute couture by way of Deseret Industries - last week in the northern Utah city of 15,000.

While Farmington might not become the next fashion hot spot, county commissioners took to the catwalk Thursday for the "Dress for Success for Less" show and job fair for people age 55 and older.

Commissioners Louenda Downs, Alan Hansen and Bret Millburn showed off the latest in blazers, skirts and slacks from the thrift stores. The combined price tag for their duds totaled less than $75.

But Millburn was able to escape any criticism for his walk as he was out of town for the actual fashion show. After Tuesday's commission meeting, organizers videotaped his fashion modeling.

That left Hansen and Downs to prepare for the spotlight.

"We've been practicing our turns," Downs joked. "They're the hardest."

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