Developer unveils plans for new Lehi development

LEHI — Utah Flash president Brandt Andersen, alongside internationally-renowned architect Frank Gehry, unveiled plans at the Flash Factory Wednesday for a new 85-acre development.

Officially called The Point, the development is planned for the east side of I-15 just south of the Point of the Mountain in Lehi. The site will eventually be home to the Utah Flash of the NBA's Developmental League and a five-star hotel. Plans also call for residential and retail buildings to wrap around a man-made lake which is expected to host various water sport competitions and exhibitions.

The architecture, behind which Gehry is the main creative genius, will reflect influences from around the state of Utah, including influences from Mount Timpanogos and Arches National Park. The development is being designed to run on up to 30 percent self-sustained energy from geothermal to solar to wind.

Andersen, a 29-year-old Brigham Young University graduate turned successful business man, has funded the entire project to this point with his own capital, including the purchase of the property. And given the nation's current rocky financial situation, Gehry applauded Andersen's optimistic outlook on the project.

Gehry's resume includes a long list of structures from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to a building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to numerous projects in southern California.

The project is still awaiting final approval from Lehi on the particulars of the job, but if all goes well, Andersen hopes for completion of the phased project within a two- or three-year timeframe.

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