From Deseret News archives:
Rocky, builder cross swords
Developer to shun Salt Lake City until there's new mayor
Anderson said the RDA's past dealings with Wasatch, involving another RDA loan, had left a sour taste in his mouth.
Wasatch owner Dell Loy Hansen told the council that Anderson's request was "a malicious attack." Hansen announced that Wasatch had pulled out of the 222 S. Main project. Anderson then withdrew his request for a reconsideration.
But when Hansen and Anderson left the meeting room together, it got ugly.
"You got the guts to look me in the face and talk about it?" Hansen asked Anderson.
Soon, the two were talking face-to-face in fact, you might say, in each other's faces and at one point, Anderson told Hansen to get his hand off his arm or "I'll kick your ass."
Hansen on Tuesday accused the mayor of backing "environmental freaks" and called him "a filthy liar."
In a letter to the council, Anderson said Wasatch had abused a loan from the RDA that had helped KUTV relocate its television studios from West Valley City to the downtown Wells Fargo Center, which Wasatch had purchased from American Stores.
Part of that agreement allowed Wasatch to earn credits toward the loan's 3 percent interest rate by showing it had brought new employees to Salt Lake City who would otherwise have worked outside the city.
Anderson's letter said the forms used to count those employees were "artfully drafted so as to enable an employer to honestly sign the form when, in fact, the claimed qualifying employees could have come from another office building within Salt Lake City."
Hansen said the forms were legitimate as far as he knew, and he said it was up to employers such as KUTV to oversee the way they were handled.
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