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Developer to fill Sugar House hole
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Mecham did no one a favor, and is doing nothing worthwhile. He says he has financing. Yeah, right. If so, he'd take that proof to the city and get another delay in filling the hole.
Watch for the property to sit for four years, drag down the entire area, and be sold to someone who will put in a chain restaurant.
Any business person worth a lick knows if you're going to make a change you keep the existing businesses up and running as long as possible, get plans and approvals for the change you want to make,THEN get the old buildings down & new buildings up as soon as possible - IN THAT ORDER.
It's better for the community, better for the businesses and better for the land owner. Instead we've got a big pit and a whiny developper.
$80,000 is CHEAP to patch the mess considering that for at least the past six months Mecham should have been standing on the corner handing dollar bills to passerbys to compensate them for staring at his poorly executed eyesore.
The good news is that bad economies are pretty effective at weeding out bad business people. Maybe Mecham will be weeded out as a result of his bad business execution and the city can just turn the land into the newest Salt Lake City park.
At this point, the more the city can fine and landscape him to bankruptcy sooner, the better for us all.
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