DAVIS COUNTY — Station Park is going up, at an extremely slow pace.

Clinton Park Plaza is seeing buildings erected, but they are starting to slow as well.

Clearfield’s Midtown Village is starting to see some housing developments being built, but no retail stores have yet started to come to life.

The blame is still being placed solely on the economy, both U.S. and statewide. And despite budget and staff “trimming” by some cities, the support of building delays is showing support.

Farmington Mayor Scott Harbertson stated Friday that despite Farmington Station being pushed back, he’ll happily wait another year for the project to be completed and be ready to go.

“I don’t want the project to open up and go dark a year later,” he said.

And even though there hasn’t been a new date set for the Midtown Village project in Clearfield, it’s still in delay from its initial completion date of Summer 2009.

Along with the economy, slow retail numbers have been to blame for some of the projects as well.

Recent numbers had shown that retail numbers, though strong initially, have dropped significantly since Christmas.

“It’s been a slow year everywhere,” said Shellie Gladfelder, owner of Brat’s clothing store in Bountiful. “We did fairly well, fortunately, but a lot of the stores where I live haven’t done well at all.”

Clinton is in a little better shape; however, with Lowe’s already up and running and Kohl’s being expected to open around next spring according to Spencer Wright.

“We were a bit lucky that we got those projects done,” he said. “Before things really started looking bad.

“We’ve been fairly fortunate so far.”

Carl’s Jr., a fast-food restaurant, is also slated to fill a space in the project as well, as they have applied for a building permit and is expected to have final approval within the next week.

“Lowe’s is one of those anchor tenant types people look for when shopping in a certain area,” said Darryl Williams, a Clinton resident who lives near the development. “This place has Lowe’s so far, but other cities do the same thing everywhere.

“Layton has Target, Lowes, Ross, the (Layton Hills) mall; Farmington is supposed to have a movie theater and North Salt Lake has those three housing developments going. But it’s all pretty slow and go.”

The three developments in North Salt Lake include the EaglePointe, Bella Vida at Eaglewood and Edgewood. All are geared to be senior living developments near a series of golf courses and shopping areas, most notably the Gateway in Salt Lake City.

“We really like the location of all these developments,” said Casey Cummings, marketing director for Sky Properties in Bountiful. “They’re going to serve the area quite well.

“We also believe that with the focus of having these facilities geared toward senior citizens, the project will be even more successful.”

For now the first development is still slated to be completed around Spring 2010, as they’ve remained optimistic.

“We’ve already sold some of the units,” said Cummings. “And those aren’t even completed yet.”

Other areas are still building despite news of economic downturn. The Renaissance Towne Center is still working on their newest buildings they have been working on since earlier this year.

The Commons in West Bountiful has just finished one of the last buildings of the project, which is slated to have a Mikado’s asian-style casual dine-in restaurant.

“It takes awhile to recover,” said Wright. “Especially since we are in this economic predicament right now.

“Everyone will recover sooner or later, it just takes time.”

sgillet@davisclipper.com