About Us
If you talk to your neighbors and ask them what they want for their kids and grandkids in the future, you’ll find that we all want pretty much the same things: close family, good health, economic prosperity and outstanding quality of life —as good or better than our own. Kennecott Land has a plan for balanced growth that will help keep jobs and family right here in the Valley for decades to come.
At Kennecott Land, we’re already moving in that direction. As part of Rio Tinto, an international mining company, we are committed to sustainability in all our operations. We’ve begun with the opening of Daybreak—a new West Bench community in South Jordan that not only celebrates our deeply rooted values, but also provides a model for future growth and economic prosperity along the West Bench. Even as Kennecott Utah Copper will provide copper to the world for many years to come, Kennecott Land is transforming other West Bench property into high-quality communities. We can orient these new communities around a variety of employment centers offering a mix of office, retail and other commercial uses. And we can provide for a public transit corridor to connect these communities and employment centers.
Kennecott Land envisions dedicating approximately half of this land to parks and natural open space, thus protecting the beauty of the Oquirrh Mountains and opening up a vast new frontier to recreation. In short, we can create a pathway to sustainable, quality growth in Salt Lake Valley that will provide our families with new homes, new jobs and new places to explore for generations.
On the pages of this web site, you can see how these ideas might begin to take shape. We invite you to visit Daybreak and consider the potential of the West Bench. Tell us what you think. Share your ideas. With your help and collaboration, we can achieve sustainable quality growth on the West Bench.
