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The Triad Center evolved through several iterations. In 1982 it looked like this:




Two years later it had evolved some more. A map appears below.






A 30-story Hyatt-Regency Hotal was added, which would have been connected by skybridge to the block to the west. The supports for the skybridge can still be seen in the median of 3rd West. The plans showed two hotels.



A year later, in 1985. Triad planners had decided to decrease the height of the office building to 35 stories or 500 feet. The reason they gave was that the Church was planning an office building on the corner of South Temple and State, which we now know as the Eagle Gate Tower. The latest iteration of the Triad Center appears below.



Note that the Hyatt-Regency had evolved into something that would have looked very interesting. It is the building with four corner towers topped by spheres. It's too bad this was never built. The other two buildings on that block were office buildings. There were three condo towers on the south block.



Below are some pictures from the ground-breaking ceremony.



Dozens of enormous metal columns were later delivered and lay in stacks on the block to the east for about a year. Financing problems delayed construction. It seems the khashoggi's had fallen on hard times. It was finally admitted that the tower and the rest of the project would never be built. The metal girders were sold as scrap to a company down in American Fork. I saw them there for a while, but they eventually disappeared for good.