The LDS Church has said saving the First Security Building "would require an expensive seismic retrofit, and the high costs of restoration could not be recouped." If the Utah Heritage Foundation, the Eccles family and others are so adamant about saving the building, then they should pay for it.
Gordon N. Springer
Salt Lake City
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