From Deseret News archives:
This Is the Place office building?
After six months of studying the viability of putting a 9,000-square-foot events center and 12 acres of office space on the living history park, board members of This Is the Place Foundation took their final votes Monday on what to allow. Each of the two projects could bring a much-needed $400,000 per year to the park a total of $800,000.
But the board turned down the events center and gave a positive recommendation to the state for a land lease, which would be used to build the 12-acre addition to the University of Utah's Research Park.
Residents of Salt Lake City's east bench, however, are not happy with the proposed plan.
"This area up here is one of the last open spaces in the city. And we're going to open it up to office space," said Bryan Jensen, a trustee of the Sunnyside East Neighborhood Association. "Pretty soon, we just have Research Park Two instead of This Is the Place state park."
The new board has been looking at ways to make money, and the events center and land lease for office space were the two ideas that would bring in the biggest profit.
That 50-year lease would be to Associated Regional and University Pathologists (ARUP) for an administrative building and parking lot that could be built on an empty field some 900 feet away from the Brigham Young farmhouse.
"I'm on the front lines in my costume, and I don't want anything around. I want to be back 150 years," said Terrell Dougan, a park board member and character volunteer.
But expenses are not as they were in 1847, she added.
"For me, as a person sitting here, as a person trying to interpret history, it will honestly not bother me," she said.
Ellis Ivory, chairman of the board, said the park does not need more space for buildings. A large chunk of the 43 buildings on-site are already closed during the peak season. Ivory is also chairman of the Deseret Morning News Board of Directors.
"We really do care about this neighborhood. I think right now there are questions, but it's such a natural way to get that support," Ivory said of the land lease. "It won't ruin the park, the aesthetics."
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