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SALT LAKE CITY â€" For many devout Mormons, Utah’s capital city is important mainly as a setting for the jewel that really matters: Temple Square at the city’s center. Brigham Young, the pioneer leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, laid out the urban grid with street numbers starting at the temple. The secular world was thus defined by the sacred core.
But now a hugely ambitious, $1 billion church-financed redevelopment project near the temple, called City Creek Center, and a wave of recent church property purchases in the vicinity are prompting a new debate inside the church community and out over where the line between culture and economics should be drawn.
Some residents say the church, by opening its checkbook in a recession, rescued the city when times got tough. The 1,800 construction jobs at City Creek alone have provided a big local economic cushion. Completion of the project â€" 20 acres of retail shops and residential towers â€" is scheduled for 2012.
Full Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/us/08saltlake.html
No suprise that this thing is being built around Salt Lake City's LRT line.
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in 20 years, if we can find a way to lose 200,000 people, perhaps we can follow Salt Lake City's path of economically revitalizing their urban core with reliable mass transit.
FBC, wanna help?
Oh that's right, cult, nevermind.
a cult? are you serious? even if FBC did propose something like this....there would be negativity towards it.
Quote from: fsujax on February 10, 2010, 02:09:41 PM
a cult? are you serious? even if FBC did propose something like this....there would be negativity towards it.
Um, it was a joke.
However, with the current admin and staff they have, I wouldn't dare trust them at all.