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Great question Sasawest! I've never paid attention to that before and now I'm curious as to the answer. By the looks of the tops of the stacks, it was something to do with a coal fired utility power plant. I'm sure someone like Comrade will know.
Amazing how densely packed the middle of the blocks are. Would have made for some incredible Euro-style walkways to cool restaurants, clubs, commercial, and restored repurposed residential. Planners really need to take more queues from these historic photos. A part of me was tempted to think we would have been better off to have kept much of Downtown as it was in the 40s, but that isn't necessary and I'm happy with much of the current and upcoming progress that's being made. Though, I would like to see much of the current wasted space in the south and west of downtown become like 1940s Salt Lake City. Projects like The Post District are definitely what we need a lot more of in addition to groupings of taller 550-650 foot high-rises around 2nd West, State, Main, and W. Temple.
Good looking photo of Worthington just released a few days ago. All and all, I like how it has turned out. I think its coloring was a much-needed change in that sea of pale grays and quasi-whites. Perhaps, I would have tried something a little different with the parking screen. Maybe adding a little of that silver-tinted glass that I think is a very attractive contrast with the copper coloring on the upper tower, but I think what they did was much better than just punched-out empty holes or empty horizontal slots of exposed concrete ramps.
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