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Developer requests more time from Salt Lake again

Jason Vance | 8:04 a.m. June 4, 2008

Why don't you actually report what this really is. The spinless city council was bamboozled by Craig Mecham. They refuse to enforce the laws that they have created. He's a big rich mormon devloper. If this was the typical small single property owner, the city would be all over them, enforcing every law, ordinace and zoning bs. Since he's rich, they're afraid of a long drawn out lawsuit.

Thanks City Council for not doing your job.

uncannygunman | 8:52 a.m. June 4, 2008

When they fix the loophole that let this mess occur in the first place, how about they call it "Mecham's Law"?

daynest | 9:04 a.m. June 4, 2008

This developer has done everything to comply with the waxing and waning demands of the city counsel. The city should give him a break and let him build his project which looks alot like old Sugarhouse to me. We don't really need a temporary grass lot.

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Fault Line | 1:42 p.m. June 4, 2008

This mess is going to drag on for months, if not years.

The architectural rendering of the new buildings look great. If they ever get built, Sugarhouse will once again be a thriving, hip, urban hot-spot in the city.

In Sugar House | 5:25 p.m. June 4, 2008

The lease rates that this development will demand won't allow the types of businesses that used to occupy this block. It won't be "hip". It will be just the opposite - national franchises that have all the "hipness" of Jordan Landing, the District, or any other wanna be fake urban place. Soren Simonsen attempted to protect what was special about downtown Sugar House, unfortunately the rest of the City Council was asleep at the wheel.

Dawagio | 8:26 p.m. June 4, 2008

Soren Simonsen is trying to ruin Sugar House and make a name for himself. If Blue Boutique and tatoo parlors are hip we don't want hip. That is what it was attracting. I would rather have a dirt hole. It was not a safe place for a family to even walk now Mecham is making it family safe.

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