Jordan Landing is a master-planned development located in the center of West Jordan, Utah

West Jordan, Utah

West Jordan is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. West Jordan is a rapidly growing suburb of Salt Lake City and has a mixed economy. According to the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 103,712, placing it as the fourth most populated in the state. The city occupies the...

, adjacent to South Valley Regional Airport. Its 500 acre (2 km²) size, containing 1400000 square feet (130,064.3 m²) of retail space, 1,200 residential units, and 1500000 square feet (139,354.6 m²) of office space, places it as a focal point of West Jordan's booming economy.

It is one of the largest mixed-use developments in the Intermountain West

Intermountain West

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. Built on a former alfalfa

Alfalfa

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 field and next to Bangerter Highway, with the first phase having its groundbreaking in 1999, Jordan Landing has been criticized for drawing traffic from across the Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably West Valley City, Murray, Sandy, and West Jordan; its total population is 1,029,655 as of 2010...

 to a formerly rural

Rural

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 area, overwhelming infrastructure, acting as a catalyst for urban sprawl

Urban sprawl

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, and attracting many pre-teens to the theater plaza. However, many developers have cited Jordan Landing's success and positive impact on population growth, with some calling it a catalyst, in their decision to begin construction on their own nearby large mix-use developments. Among them are Utah's Boyer Company, America's largest homebuilder D. R. Horton

D. R. Horton

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, and rather uniquely European mining multinational Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto Group

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The shopping center has two "superstores": a Wal-Mart Supercenter and the first ever Sears Grand. The Wal-Mart Supercenter was the first such store in the Salt Lake City area and is consistenty rated among the busiest in the United States

United States

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, attracting 80,000 shoppers a week. Jordan Landing also contains 12 dine-in restaurants, and 13 fast-food establishments, mostly of the national chain variety.

Jordan Landing is also the location of Utah's largest cinema by number of screens, a 24-screen Cinemark theater (the largest theater by seats is Larry H. Miller's 20 screen megaplex in the nearby "The District" in South Jordan

South Jordan, Utah

South Jordan is a city in the U.S. state of Utah. The city lies in the Salt Lake Valley between the peaks of the Oquirrh Mountains and the peaks of the Wasatch Mountains and is part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area...

, in which seats are more tightly packed).

Mountain America Credit Union

Mountain America Credit Union

Mountain America Credit Union is a federally chartered credit union headquartered in West Jordan, Utah, regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration . Mountain America is Utah's second largest credit union...

 and Cyprus Credit Union have their corporate headquarters in Jordan Landing. The community also contains many apartments, condominiums, and townhouses. Additionally, there is one hotel built Hampton Inn

Hampton Inn

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 and another hotel is scheduled for construction, it will be a AmeriTel Inn, the first one outside of the Pacific Northwest.

Anchors

• Best Buy
  Best Buy
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• Kohl's
  Kohl's
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• Lowe's
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• Ross
• Sam's Club
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• Sears Grand
• Target
  Target Corporation
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• Wal-Mart Supercenter