If elected to office next month, Salt Lake City mayoral candidate Erin Mendenhall said Monday that she would begin working “on Day One” to cultivate a sustainable ecosystem for tech companies to grow in the state’s capital.
The city has fertile soil to bring in the economic benefits of the state’s booming technology industry, the Salt Lake City Councilwoman argued, pointing to its urban and socially progressive community, a growing international airport critical for doing business in a global world and a number of colleges and universities providing a ready workforce.
“I’m tired of Salt Lake City losing out on these high-paying jobs with our skilled labor, our educated workforce here in Salt Lake City who needs these jobs here,” Mendenhall said after a tour of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company located in the Gateway downtown.