Pray they don't find copper
Another Salt Lake City success story. A money grubbing developer wipes out a hip, successful small business cluster in Sugar House and leaves the once-flourishing walkable neighborhood looking like Stalingrad after the panzers left.All for dreams of a local link in the cheesy chain of Crate & Barrel.
The crazy part is that the old Sugar House's mix of local and chain retail was considered so admirable that the urban planners at Kennecott's Daybreak community based their retail development on it. Instead, it looks like the Salt Lake City bureaucrats have done a turnabout and are modeling Sugar House on Kennecott Copper's massive Bingham Canyon crater.
The city is giving Craig Mecham until the end of the month to fill in the four-acre crater he put in the heart of Sugar House. As part of the city's new-found skepticism of developers, Mecham also must show that something is going to happen on his chain-link fence encircled void. Someday.
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I hope that greedy jerk Mecham goes bust and ends up living under the viaduct. It's too bad running charlatans out of town on a rail and tar and feathers have gone out of style. And even though I always loved how Rocky tweaked the noses of the fatcats at the lege, he really dropped the ball on this one; Rocky let this creep ruin the whole neighborhood so he could get rich. How's that workin' out for ya?
That's what Democrats like Rocky do. They do what feels the best in the moment rather than looking at past history and long term success.
Question -- who approved the project? I've got no love for Mecham, but what "official" or "official group" gave the OK without confirmation of full funding? I think that's what needs to be explored further.
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