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If you were in a concrete sort of mood Thursday, you weren't alone. Salt Lake's downtown was graced with 3,948 additional cubic yards of the gray stuff in a seven company, 16-hour pour, one of the city's largest ever. Three hundred and eighty one trucks filled with concrete began lining up for the Broadway Centre Concrete Pour at 6 a.m. When the job was completed by 10 p.m., the slab, braced with 172 tons of reinforcing steel, was 4 feet thick and weighed 12 million pounds. Just the thought is enough to make even the bathroom scale seem a little friendlier.