Dan Thompson knows the acreage and owner of every parcel of land in the area near his home in northern Salt Lake City, where planes fly overhead and herds of deer run through the long, dry grass.
What he doesn’t know is what will become of the relatively rural neighborhood he’s lived in for more than 20 years once development begins on the inland port, a massive distribution hub planned for the city’s northwest side.
“This was nothing but fields, cows, that was it” when he moved here, he said. But “things are changing.”
Thompson and his wife, Natalie, live near an isolated and relatively minuscule sliver of the port that sits immediately west of I-15 on 2200 West and just north of I-80 on 2100 North.