Strictly speaking, this is the pin drop for the City Hall / Justice Court office complex where city offices are. But as is the case here on Yelp, it's become a review site for the city itself. So where do I begin?
Sandy is the little kit who grew up and went away to college. I remember as a kid, the Salt Lake valley sort of ended at 10600 South and Sandy was about as far as you went unless you went out to the farm town of Draper. When they built South Towne Mall we all thought they were nuts for putting a mall on the outskirts of society and in a small town like Sandy.
I lived in Sandy for many years, so the love goes back. But sometime around the end of the last millenium, things starting picking up for my old hometown and they started to get some size. The buildings got taller, the politics got a lot more shrewd, the developers starting putting in track housing and strip malls, and suddenly you have a big city on the south end of the valley, only now it's not so frontiersy.
I like old Sandy (around 8600 S and just east of State Street) but it's been neglected for a while. New Sandy has a lot less character but a lot more people and let's be honest, it's a heck of a place to raise a kid and own a house. The old strip malls have been slowly inhabited by businesses with a little more flair and it's coming into its own.
It's a big city--I lived on the east side, and had lots of parks at my fingertips. You have the busy commercial sectors around 9000 S and especially 10600 S, so everything you need is pretty close by. I don't love the breakneck development (we missed a real opportunity to make Quarry Bend something besides a giant shopping complex) but so far it's held up pretty well.
All in all, it was and still is a great place to grow up and it seems to have grown up pretty well itself. Hopefully it continues to grow and diversify. read more