Name change from “Sunrise,” to "Daybreak"

The name has changed — from “Sunrise,” to “Daybreak” — but the plan for Kennecott Land’s new urban community on 4,300 acres of former mining land in the Salt Lake City suburb of South Jordan remains the same and is going forward. Kennecott is developing roads and selecting home builders for the 30-year community designed by new urbanist Calthorpe Associates that will eventually see 13,600 residential units that could double South Jordan’s population of 40,000. Next on the Daybreak’s agenda: landscape design — including a 100-acre lake — and planning a visitors center. First-phase construction of 1,200 homes is slated to begin in June 2004. Longer-range plans include a town center, a workplace district, a TRAX rail line, and more than 1,200 acres of parks and open space.