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Originally Posted by Orlando
I am somewhat concerned about creating the entertainment district adjacent to potential lds campus expansion and kitty corner to Temple Square. Bars adjacent to Temple Square?? Anyone else concerned about that? Ryan is LDS right? Doesn't he see the dilemma in that? Why not try to go one block east with mostly mixed-use res. towers and hotel and then go southeast and work with the Ritchie Group on the rest of the West Quarter?
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Why would having bars by Temple Square be a big issue? This isn't going to turn SLC into a Nashville or Las Vegas style 24 hour party town. The one visual we saw and discussion I've heard is much along the lines of the battery in Atlanta. Think offices, residential dwellings, and indoor/outdoor retail similar to City Creek imo.
On that note, I don't know how all 3 can thrive together, in such close proximity, I think if this is built you're going to be trading a good chunk of tax dollars from other retail in SLC. There's only so much spending to go around. This is one of the arguments successfully used against the Coyotes failed Tempe vote last year, the developers always call it "new tax dollars generated" which of course they want to keep almost all of them. But the reality is you're definitely going to be stealing retail spending from nearby competitors that already exist.
On the last part, I don't get the feeling he wants to work with anyone, he wants total control of all of it and wants the city residents to kick in all but 1% of every sales tax dollar it will generate for 30-years to pay for it.