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Downtown Update - Marmalade library: a new chapter in redevelopment

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home2/52972380-183/library-marmalade-utter-north.html.csp

By Derek P. Jensen
The Salt Lake Tribune

When planners picture the new Marmalade library in Salt Lake City, they pencil in the three R’s: reading, retail and residential.

That and other innovative blueprints are breaking the library mold in Utah’s capital. Sure, an “exquisite” library will anchor the city’s northern entry point near the middle of a vacant block between 500 North and 600 North on the east edge of 300 West. But there will be more than books to check out.

Imagine a lush outdoor plaza adorned by a bustling boutique grocery, small restaurants, town houses, modern offices, a coffee shop, hair salon, art gallery, bank, dry cleaner, used-book store and more...



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