From Deseret News archives:
Plaza fight fades into history
Back then, the Salt Lake Herald called that building an, "ornate, gingerbread, paste-diamond pretension." Today, it is viewed universally as a true 24-carat gem in the city's skyline a rare example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture that is a valued part of the city's charm. Few, if any, remember the controversies surrounding its construction.
The same likely will be said of the Main Street Plaza. It always was intended to be a peaceful oasis in the heart of a big city. Now that the ACLU and the plaintiffs it represents have decided to forego any further appeals of last year's 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, it finally can become such.
Actually, it already has, as anyone who walks through it can attest.
The battles that swirled around the sale, the subsequent protests, the eventual city decision to swap the easement in exchange for church property elsewhere and a lawsuit over that decision divided the community and led to many hard feelings.
We hope those feelings will soften now. They stand in sharp contrast to the plaza itself, which, like the City-County Building, is an asset any city should be glad to call its own.
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