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Article: Empty block may become parking lot
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2004
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A parking lot is not really what Salt Lake leaders have had in
mind for one of the last entirely undeveloped blocks of downtown. But
they might have to live with one, at least for a while.
They have hoped that Block 40, owned by billionaire Earl Holding's
Sinclair Oil Corp., might one day be home to one of his projects that
would help revive the downtown economy.
"That is a key piece of property to our downtown, and it really
anchors our Main Street," City Council Chairwoman Jill Remington Love
said.
But Sinclair's latest plans for the block call not for sweeping
development but for a parking lot, albeit a very nice one.
The company has filed for a conditional use permit from the
Planning ...