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Developer agrees to fill in Sugar House crater

This is a touch game he is playing, with the city and everyone around hitting on him. I am a former Sugar House store operator. I know the old story is still there. The city basically hates Sugar House and always has. Becuase of survival mentality, the business men and merchants of Sugar House survived by being creative and venturesome. Get behind Meecham and support him in his efforts to rebuild the broken down corner which had no real value with those facades sitting on it. I am no Craig Meecham fan and never was, however, the man is doing somthing worthwhile. Support him everyone and cheer him on.

...doing, that Mecham forced out? Are they are thriving?

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.

Are you Crazy?

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.

How about they turn this great big hole into a community swimming pool and recreational center? Why not? The doves, geese, sea gulls and piegons need a place to roost these days. And so does Craig Meecham; let's leave him there to hang out with the foul for a while.

Maybe its a plan to drive out the current business owners, devalue the property as a whole (wear them down over time) stalling and delays for the remaining business so much that they leave, or are bought out. ewh la la la la, put up a parking lot.... as the song goes.