You misunderstood my comments. I never suggested that the Gehry project be built in Sandy rather than Lehi. I was simply a statement, that if we are trying to conserve land and build more sustainable, than building on and around existing infrastructure in Sandy is a much more logical place to develop a more urban type environment.
So because Dolan and Buttars are idiots, and Sandy has made mistakes in the past they shouldn't be able to change directions? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Salt Lake City made mistakes too, look at how many great historic buildings have been lost or covered up with 60's facades, does that mean that SLC has made it's bed and can't have nice architecture or save remaining historic structures?
So let me get this straight, we are all pissed because they didn't build a regional park on the gravel pit, even thought it was never part of Sandy's plan it was simply a group of people that thought it would be a good idea. They allowed that center to be built partly because Lowes and Wal-mart were going to leave the city and the city would have lost a ton of tax revenue. So Sandy is evil for allowing the gravel pit to be developed to keep and increase their tax revenue, yet on the other had they are evil for wanting to create urban type density, that will increase their tax base also. So basically according to some people Sandy is wrong no matter what they do.
Look I'm not fan of Sandy, will never live there, and I think Tom Dolan and Chris Buttars are douche bags, but come on people get over your attitude of everything Sandy does wether suburban style or urban style is wrong and evil. It's the same mentality that some people will refuse to go to a Real game because the stadium will be in Sandy, when in the long term if the team fails it doesn't reflect on Sandy it reflects on the entire metro as a place that can't support sports, and we'll never get that MLB or NFL team we would all love to get.
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