Two years ago, Dave Tuomisto’s Utah County Timpanogos Harley-Davidson dealership was in pieces. Not because it was demolished, but because it had not yet been built. The massive motorcycle dealership/restaurant in Lindon, made from 70 percent salvaged material, is a testament to earth-friendly building and an architectural model for turning a junk heap into an impressive dealership.

The Lindon City Required white vinyl fence and grass don't really compliement dealerships style and overall mission.

Tuomisto’s goal is to sell mean machines but do it green. The only problem with the industrial-looking structure is that it’s just not “country” enough for the Lindon City Council. Tuomisto says that during planning and construction, the council offered him leeway on certain city ordinances. But now that construction is complete, he says, he’s been hit up with the ordinances in question—which will require him to place a strip of lawn in front of his business and surround it with a white vinyl fence.

The requirements are like having a “great-looking suit, and now we’re throwing a pair of tennis shoes on,” Tuomisto says. But it’s not just the clashing aesthetics of the rural country fence and lawn around the xeriscaped dealership that bothers Tuomisto. It’s also the fact that his building’s status as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified will be marked down because of the conflicting ordinances. The less-than-perfect certification by the U.S. Green Building Council will cost him in government tax credits and exposure in the architecture world.

Tuomisto started the project in 2006, after selling the rights to his successful Bajio restaurant chain. The 60,000-square foot structure is a motorcycle palace made from salvaged steel and rubble from the once-hulking Geneva Steel plant and concrete from the deserted truck stop that stood on the lot that Tuomisto purchased.

After years of planning and construction and after investing $15 million, Tuomisto wants people to see the future of construction. “Everybody leaves a footprint on Mother Earth,” Tuomisto says. “This dealership’s goal was to show how you can lighten that footstep.”

Ever excited to talk about the construction of the dealership, Tuomisto is reluctant to speak much about his current differences with Lindon. He does say the city has changed its message on the ordinances since his shop opened this past summer. “Their fallback is to say, ‘We did represent that but that’s not what the ordinance says,’” Tuomisto says. Lindon’s motto, “A Little Bit of Country” applies well to its city planning, where the lawn and fence are uniform throughout the city’s commercial zones, says Mayor Jim Dain.

“Any city that looks good has a streetscape that’s appealing and that repeats throughout town,” says Dain, adding that while the “streetscape” is uniform, Lindon gives business owners nearly free rein with their building designs. “We have very broad guidelines for what [business owners] do with their buildings.”

Dain has been a supporter of Tuomisto’s project. “As an architect and a mayor, I can say that Dave has done an incredible job,” Dain says. “We don’t have a real battle going with Dave. There are just some ordinances in our commercial zone that we’ve asked him to comply with, that apply to any commercial zone.”

While Tuomisto’s business is in a commercial zone, he still shakes his head at needing the fence and lawn for a nonpedestrian road. “It’s an industrial area,” Tuomisto says. “It’s not like anyone’s taking a baby stroller past to take their kid to go play in the Geneva Steel slag pile.”

Dain recognizes this situation is different. “Dave’s project is a unique building in a unique location in our city. Because of that we are willing to look at a possible ordinance change or an overlay district,” he says. Carl Carter, a friend and associate of Tuomisto’s and Lindon resident, has been following the struggle at the City Council meetings and thinks part of the problem has been a changing administration. “At first, he got the green light for everything,” Carter says. But that started to change the farther he went with the project. “In Lindon City’s defense, they did give him a lot of latitude at first,” Carter says.

The city did give Tuomisto more flexibility with the size of his billboard off Interstate 15, let him start operations before his permanent occupancy permit had been approved and even changed city ordinance to allow more xeriscaping in commercial zones.

The xeriscaping leeway was worked out along with the Utah Rivers Council which has been encouraging more water-wise landscaping ordinances throughout the state.

“The majority of city ordinances don’t address xeriscaping,” says Mark Danenhauer of the Rivers Council. “It’s really a major fault. These landscaping ordinances are outdated.” The council, through RipYourStrip.com, have been promoting removal of grass strips like the one Tuomisto has been forced to put in at his business. “We’ve found people who rip out 300 feet of grass save on average 5,000 gallons of water annually,” Danenhauer says. Danenhauer hopes that more cities will give homeowners and businesses the option to xeriscape. “Utahns are demonstrating that they want to have water-wise landscaping,” Danenhauer says. “And it’s important that city ordinances allow them to do that.”

Tuomisto however, has decided to stop fighting the city.

“It’s not worth my time. I’ve been to too many city council meetings,” Tuomisto says. “I’d rather play with my kids.” The struggle to make Tuomisto’s xeriscaped masterpiece a bit more country is one he doesn’t have any fight left in him for. “When I bought this property, I was picking up syringes and milk jugs full of urine that truckers tossed out their windows from the freeway,” Tuomisto says. “We’ve done a lot for Lindon, and we’d hope they’d give a little back.”

It all started in July 2006, with Dave Tuomisto drawing his idea on a naplkin for Rick Story. Tuomisto, the owner of Timpanogos Harley-Davidson, and Story the General Manager, were in San Diego for a Harley-Davidson convention. While eating hot dogs at a Padres' baseball game, they were discussing their need to get a new store open along the I-15 corridor. Tuomisto grabbed a napkin and drew a building he envisioned as being a football field long a football field wide.

TOP PHOTO: Dave Tuomisto and Rick Story have recently opened the Timpanogos Harley-Davidson "resort" in Lindon. The building is made from 80 percent reclaimed materials including a 75 foot tall, 11,000 pound water tower that sits on top of the building as a landmark easily seen from the freeway.

"He took things way over the top from the original concept, " Story laughs. From napkin to reality, two years later, Timp Harley is not only open as a Harley-Davidson "resort" complete with a restaurant sitting on six acres, but Tuomisto also pulled off his vision by putting together a green building that is built from 80 percent reclaimed materials. As Tuomisto puts it, "There isn't a Home Depot two-by-four in here."

The TImp Harley building in Lindon is notable not only because it contains relaimed materials, but because of where many of those materials came from - salvaged from the neighboring now - closed Geneva Steel Plant. Tuomisto wanted to use one great American manufacturing company to honor the history of another.

"You don't see anybody with a 'Costco' tattoo or a 'Toyota' leather jacket, " Tuomisto notes of the legendary fanaticism that Harley-Davidson has generated over the years. At the other end of the spectrum, he looked at the closed Geneva property and thought, "There's so many people who don't realize they're here because of Geneva Steel." Whether its because their ancestors worked at the plant - as Tuomisto's did - or they worked in a business that sprouted up to support Geneva workers. The plant originally began construction in 1941, was built in two years by 10,000 workers at a cost of $200 million and served as a source of livelihood to many Utah Valley families over the years. When Tuomisto was getting ready to build Timp Harley, Genva was set for demolition less than a year later, which would leave the area without a trace of a significant part of it's history.

"There was nothing here to memorialize it, when American industry is what made our country great," Tuomisto says of Geneva's history. "Harley-Davidson is one of the great American companies, and we wanted to help people remember another great American company."

"To have everything from there (Geneva) just thrown away would have been kind of sad," say Lance McDaniel, who is in charge of training and safety courses offered at TImp Harley. "My impression is that they've done something to save a part of the history of this valley. The character of this building just grabs you. You spend a lot of time just looking at things."

Tuomisto, who built the Bajio Grill chain before getting into the motorcycle business, got a chance to your Geneva before it was torn down and discovered that "all they cared about was steel," which was going to be shipped off to a foreign country to be melted down. He was told he could take the wood and fixtures, but he only had four days before the wrecking crew took over. "I felt like I was competing against time, " he says.

Besides the Geneva materials, the Timp Harley building also contains materials fro the old Coca-Cola plant that sat at 950 S. West Temple in Salt Lake City, which was built in 1903 and demolished in 1999, and a truss that originated in the Ogden train depot in 1870. Timp Harley even brought in salvaged products from Milwaukee, Wis, home of Harley-Davidson corporate headquarters. "I hit the salvage yards and the pack rat guys with shotguns who say "Go away," Tuomisto says.

The materials that Tuomisto salvaged and used for the dealership include a 75-foot tall, 11,000-pound water that sits on top of the building as a landmark easily seen from the freeway, and a large neon sign for Stinker gas stations, which Tuomisto's uncle ran despite being confined to an iron lung for most of his life. For Tuomisto, the sign serves as a reminder of what a person can accomplish if they are determined. "Every time I see it, it makes me think, "What's your excuse?" he says.

Tuomisto hired and architect to draw up minimal plans for the Timpanogos Harley-Davidson complex, which includes class rooms, lounges, showers, a doppler radar center, a restaurant and a riding course in the back, but in the end, "All the plans are in my head. We haven't looked at the plans in six months."

Using salvaged materials to build with is known as "green" building, which has it's benefits from an environmental perspective, but Tuomisto notes, "Building green costs more money and gives you more pain and suffering along the way."

Nevertheless, the trade-off was worth it for Tuomisto. "Building a building is the hardest thing you can do to the earth," he says. "At some point you have to think about the impact you're having. You just can't take everything."

Tuomisto realizes that some might question just how environmentally friendly a business that sell motorcycles can be, but he points out that Harley-Davidson cycles get over 50 miles per gallon and many of the great rides along the windy mountain roads are within minutes of the dealership.

Timp Harley is the first green building for the Harley-Davidson company, and with 80 percent reclaimed materials Tuomisto claims, "I don't think this has to been done before. This is probably the most reclaimed building in the western United States."

"There used to be a stigma about riding a Harley - It meant you were a rebel, "Tuomisto notes. Story, who fits that image and has been riding since 1968, jokes, "I've been in style once a decade for the past four decades. I go out of style and back in style."

Whatever the current style, Harley riders these days come from all walks of life to bond around the bikes, often while participating in good causes. "Harley-Davidson brings the street hipster and the businessman together to do rides for charity, "Tuomisto says. "It brings the billionaire and the gearhead, or the lawyer or the dentist, together as brothers because of the motorcycles."

And once they get together, they usually end up doing something for charity. THe Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.s) at the TImpanogos dealership participates in a variety of rides to benefit everything from cancer research to providing quilts for children in pediatric wards. Timp Harley also has a room in it's basement set aside for what Tuomisto calls "my passion project" - taking tools that are usually used to customize bikes and using them to customize wheelchairs for children, right down to the flames and chrome.

While charitable works and green building practices are important to Timp Harley, in the end, it all comes down to having fun when getting on the road and getting away from everything. It's summed up in the phrase found on a T-Shirt Story likes to point out. "You can't hear your cell phone on a Harley."

Even if you don't own a motorcycle, or don't even like them, you might want to stop at the new Harley-Davidson dealership in Lindon and try a mini-sandwich at Marley's Gourmet Sliders. The restaurant is on the west side of the dealership, near where the large outdoor tables are. If you use the main entrance to the building, you'll wander through racks of motorcycle gifts and paraphernalia to get to the eats. Follow your nose.

With so many options it's hard not to love the delectable little sliders. Could be the perfect afternoon. Ride on in. Have a slider and some fries and talk about Harley-Davidson motorcycles

You'll also need to know that sliders are maybe three inches square, cost $2.50 each, and at Marley's they come in Beef, Chicken, Turkey or Coney Dog varieties. One is enough for a light lunch -- if you also have an order of fries and a cup of frozen custard -- and two should be enough to fill most people, especially with the fries. Extra-hungry people can purchase the three-slider combo meal or a Full Brick -- 12 sliders, no extras for $24.99.

But a word of warning about the combo meals. They come with one, two or three sliders, a drink and either fries or a side salad. If you order the fries, normally $1.49, you're paying 21 cents more than if you ordered all three items separately -- some math nerd who ate with us pointed this out. If you opt for the salad, normally $1.99, you save 29 cents. So if you're pinching pennies -- like most of us -- and happen to like fries, order them separately.

Once you've got the food, though, you'll be making plans to come back. The sandwiches are served on soft, buttery rolls that are far better than any hamburger bun we've had recently. We liked the beef and coney dog sliders best, and you can dress your sliders how you like with any of a dozen toppings -- some, like bacon and avocado, cost extra. We loved the grilled onions.

The fries are incredibly thin. You almost have to group four or five together to make a bite worth the effort. Tables are stocked with ketchup and fry sauce, which is nice. Marley's also serves chicken tenders and a couple of salads, and the best part about either of these is the honey dill dressing they are served with. It's sweet and slightly tangy and so good with the meat or on lettuce.

The alternative, a spicy buffalo sauce, is something of a cross between the familiar orange wing sauce and barbecue sauce.

For dessert, there's frozen custard, in strawberry or vanilla on the day we visited. Have a few bites of that while you ask the guy at the next table about his bike.

Marley's Gourmet Sliders Where: 553 N. Geneva Road, Lindon
Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday
Prices: $1.49-$24.99
Info: 229-2469, www.marleys.com

LINDON – Opening a place that sells a product qualifies as a “store.” Opening a place that offers an experience beyond buying a product qualifies as a “destination.” Beyond that, what does a destination need to have to qualify as a “resort?” That question is being answered at Timpanogos Harley-Davidson. As one of America’s most well-known brands, Harley-Davidson has previously referred to some of its stores as “destinations,” but the six-acre complex just off exit 273 along the I-15 is the first to be given the title of “resort” by the company.

TOP PHOTO: General Manager Rick Story and Dave Tuomisto Stand Proudly In The New Dealership MIDDLE PHOTO: The entrance to the New Timpanogos Harley-Davidson in Lindon Utah.

Timp Harley earned the moniker because beyond being a place to buy motorcycles, equipment and HD clothing for men, women and children, it’s a spot where a biker, or somebody looking into becoming a biker, would want to go hang out for a variety of reasons. There’s a restaurant called “Marley’s” which offers gourmet sliders. Stop by before a ride and use Doppler Radar to plan your trip. Long-distance travelers can use it as a place to take a rest in the lounge and get cleaned up in the showers. Men and women who are curious about becoming riders can take a class on a special riding course in the back. Harley owners can join the H.O.G.s, (Harley Owners Group) and go on regular group rides. Or, you can simply go by to check out a unique building made mostly of scrap materials from the old Geneva Steel plant.

The fanaticism the Harley-Davidson brand generates among its customers is legendary. “You don’t see anybody with a ‘Costco’ tattoo or a ‘Toyota’ leather jacket,” Timp Harley owner Dave Tuomisto says. He previously built up the Bajio Grill chain of restaurants, and now wants to “bring the restaurant mentality of customer service to Harley-Davidson.”

Tuomisto first pitched the concept of an HD “resort” to general manager Rick Story in July of 2006 while the two were attending a Padres game in San Diego. Tuomisto grabbed a napkin and drew a building he envisioned as being a football field long and a football field wide.

“He took things way over the top from the original concept,” Story laughs. Less than two years later, much of the “resort” is open with a special Grand Opening Celebration set for the weekend of July 25.

Tuomisto and Story have put together a staff that includes a variety of people, all united by their love of Harleys. “We even have a pregnant accountant who has a cycle license,” Story says.

While Tuomisto notes, “There used to be a stigma about riding a Harley, it meant you were a rebel,” riding a hog has become culturally acceptable to the point where the Timp Harley staff includes several former law enforcement officers, particularly in the area of teaching courses for new riders.

One of those is Lance McDaniel, who is in charge of a motorcycle safety course for men and women who think a hog might be in their future. “The course starts with the idea that this person has never sat on a motorcycle before,” McDaniel explains. “It creates the perfect opportunity to determine if this is something you want to do.”

Timpanogos Harley-Davidson also offers rental opportunities, and the H.O.G. group for owners, which regularly takes groups of 20-40 riders on scenic rides.

“We’ve got people from all walks of life,” McDaniel says. “When you get together to ride, what you do for a living doesn’t matter anymore.” Or as Tuomisto puts it, “Harley-Davidson brings the street hipster and the businessman together to do rides for charity. It brings the billionaire, and the gearhead, or the lawyer or the dentist together as brothers because of the motorcycles.”

No matter their background, the one thing they can all agree on, it will be nice to have a Harley-Davidson “resort” in Utah.

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LINDON — The newest steel trusses in the ceiling were made in 1903, and the wooden floorboards are weathered from decades of service as roofs of Geneva Steel brick buildings.

It's definitely not the average motorcycle dealership, and that's just the way Dave Tuomisto wanted it.

TOP PHOTO: The loading dock of the new Timpanogos Harley Davidson dealership in Lindon features riveted columns from railroad bridges. (Jason Olson, Deseret News) MANHOLE COVER (Middle Photo):The floor of the new $16 million green building is decorated with insignias. (Jason Olson, Deseret News) INTERIOR (Bottom Photo): On Wednesday, visitors take a look at the store, which will open in June. Seventy percent of the site is made with reclaimed materials. (Jason Olson, Deseret News)

"I wanted to build a building that was kind of an all-American building, selling an all-American vehicle," said Tuomisto, owner of the new Timpanogos Harley Davidson dealership at 935 N. 1200 West in Lindon.

The walls, floor, ceiling and lights of this shop echo with the now-silent sounds of Geneva Steel and other aged Utah landmarks, including the old Coca-Cola plant in Salt Lake City and an Ogden military base.

In fact, 70 percent of the building is made with reclaimed materials — bits and pieces Tuomisto gathered and saved from the landfill or from the energy-wasting process of melting down and re-creating.

One glance around the building and it's obvious — the weathered steel trusses, riveted lattice columns from old railroad bridges and Douglas fir, tongue-in-groove floorboards all ooze decades of history.
"My dad hated everything old, so I grew up with everything new," Tuomisto said. "I hate everything new, and now I like everything old."

The only new things Tuomisto wants for his Harley Davidson "resort" that will open quietly in June, but with an official kickoff on July 25, are the sleek, chromed-out motorcycles.
Since buying the dealership in 2006, he's gone from 200 sales a year to nearly 700.

This resort will not only be a haven for those bike lovers and a memorial to a company that created and propelled the Utah County economy — it's also Tuomisto's first attempt at a "green building."

"This building is my attempt to lighten my footstep on Mother Earth," Tuomisto said. "You take a bunch of scrap iron and spend a lot of money and build a really neat building."

Near the repair shop and showroom, giant acorn-shaped lights dangle from giant hooks and chains in the high ceiling. Those lights used to line the railroad tracks by Geneva. Now they'll light up Marley's restaurant, which will serve gourmet "sliders" — small hamburgers, turkey or chicken on dinner rolls.

As founder of the Bajio Mexican restaurants, Tuomisto has the restaurant experience to ensure that motorcycles and menus won't be mutually exclusive, as they've been for other dealers.

Downstairs, ridiculously heavy 14-ton shelving units serve as more steel foundry reminders, and all the building's bricks spent time in the walls of the Geneva fire station.

"I was able to save things that you can't afford to buy new," Tuomisto said. The lattice columns that line the showroom would have cost $300 to $400 a foot to manufacture, but Geneva officials sold them for $180 a ton.
But in the end, the two-years-in-construction, $16 million green building wasn't any cheaper or easier than a regular modern facility, Tuomisto said. It's just more unique.

Lindon Mayor Jim Dain and members of the Lindon City Council and staff came Wednesday to tour the building and help seal a time capsule to be opened in 50 years.

"I've told you before," Dain said to Tuomisto. "As an architect, this building is a great accomplishment. You've brought something to the city we can all be proud of."

A water tower was hoisted on top of a new Lindon building Wednesday that has some very deep Utah roots. The brand-new Timpanogos Harley-Davidson, just off the 1600 North exit on Interstate 15, may still be under construction, but many of the materials being used come from the demolished Geneva Steel factory, including the water tower.

Dave Tuomisto, owner of Timpanogos Harley-Davidson, said the Harley-Davidson brand is nostalgic, and he wanted the building to be so as well. The building is made of 70 percent reclaimed materials and will stand as a monument to Geneva Steel. The building will be finished in June, with a grand opening in July.

A crane operator watches as crews assemble and measure a water tower on top of the new Harley Davidson dealership and resort Wednesday, May 14, 2008 in Lindon. The three-level dealership is built completely of reclaimed materials from bridges to railroad ties to old pieces of Geneva Steel. "You don't have to take every thing to the landfill," said Dave Tuomisto, owner. "You can build something beautiful with old materials." The resort will open in the beginning of June.

"I'm going to show that you can build a big, beautiful building out of stuff that usually goes to the landfill," Tuomisto said.

Tuomisto's grandfather worked at the Geneva Steel power plant, and his mother was a crane operator there for three years during World War II. Tuomisto said Utahns have more history from the factory than they realize, and he wanted to do something to preserve it.

Tuomisto, founder of the Bajio restaurant chain, said one of his customers at the Orem restaurant was working on the demolition of Geneva Steel and got him in to see the factory before it was destroyed. Tuomisto sold the chain and bought the Harley-Davidson shop on 800 North in Orem. When he wanted to use the materials from Geneva Steel to construct a new building in Lindon, Tuomisto was told he had three days to take what he wanted before everything was torn down.

"We would be in there with torches taking down columns of steel, and behind us would be a giant crane tearing things down," he said.

Despite all of the brick and steel Tuomisto was able to salvage, he said some things were lost to demolition before his crews could get to them.

The Timpanogos Harley-Davidson shop uses original brick from the Geneva Steel fire house and doors from the administration building, and the wooden roof and floors come from the factory's roof. What the crew could not get from Geneva Steel came from other old buildings in the state.

When complete, motorcyclists will be able to watch mechanics working on bikes through large windows, which are old train doors. The oldest pieces in the building are sets of trusses from the 1870s, brought in from an old train depot in Ogden. Other sets were salvaged from a Salt Lake City Coca-Cola factory from the early 1900s. The materials give the shop an imperfect, rustic feel, which is just the way Tuomisto wants it.

"I want it to look like a 60-year-old steel plant," he said.

Although old materials are being used, site foreman Kyle Rose said the building will be completely safe. An engineer stops by once a week to oversee the safety of the structure, and Rose said new materials are used where necessary, like some framing and all the heating and air conditioning systems.

Some things have been changed in the engineering for safety, but Rose said the building was already safe and changes are only upgrades. Where engineering plans specify six-inch columns, Rose said 18-inch columns from Geneva Steel are used.

"Everything's been upgraded," he said. "This building is way over-engineered."

The building will help to preserve some of Geneva Steel's history, but the amount of reclaimed materials used is also meant to preserve the environment. Tuomisto said a new building creates the biggest carbon footprint that can be left, and reclaimed materials help to reduce that impact. A lot of effort was put in to reduce energy use, like using a swamp cooler for half of the building and using large windows in the front of the store. On a good day, the lights won't even need to be turned on. "It's bright enough in here to play tennis," he said.

Tuomisto said the new shop is one-of-a-kind in many ways, and motorcyclists will be attracted from around the country to see it. Where most shops would have only a Subway inside for patrons, Timpanogos Harley-Davidson will feature a gourmet eatery, Marley's, named after his young son. Showers and a lounge will also be featured, and bikers can watch while their bikes get a tune-up for the road.

Utah's backcountry will also be promoted at the shop, where scenic rides can be seen on big-screen TVs. Tuomisto said he hired riders to wear high-definition cameras while driving through the great rides of Utah, such as Highway 128, the Alpine Loop and Indian Canyon.

Rick Story, general manager of Timpanogos Harley-Davidson, said he believes the new shop will bring riders and their business to Utah County. This kind of shop is a new idea for riders, and he said people from all around the country are already talking about it.

On a recent visit to Tennessee, Story said he was approached by dealers asking about the new shop and expressing interest.

"We're calling it a resort," he said. "What it becomes is a destination, like Cabela's is a destination for hunters."

Not only will riders be attracted to the site, but Story believes locals will be interested because of its historical significance. Whether they like it or not, Utahns have all been affected by Geneva Steel in some way.

Story said he worked for 20 years as a carpenter in the central maintenance building, which is where the roof materials for the dealership came from.

"It's nostalgic," he said. "You go in there and see all this stuff [from the steel factory]. They paid my family's bills for 20 years."