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Show I SALT .LAKE NEIGHBORHOOptM MIERICMA weekly community news for metro Salt Lake FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS, CALL 467-801- 4 Published at 383 East 1700 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 volume two Center of City Gain Benefits ..-- number forty-on- e c" Iji' x V - 1 Q. ai'i by Tim Funk It looks like Central City and Salt Lake City's central business the Salt Lake City school board for district will get the benefits of a $1.7 million Department of Commission and the Central City Housing and Ufban Development grant. The funds, which will be administered by the Salt Lake Redevelopment Agency, are to be used to renew and rebuild older areas in the city. The Central City neighborhood will receive some "$400 to $500 thousand" according to Salt Lake City budgetary reasons. The Neighborhood City Council have requested that the board lease or sell the school to the city for use as a cultural center. The board deferred any such action until the HUD grant became a reality. The remaining portion of the grant, about $1.2 million, will be j used to upgrade D.artf downtown Salt Lake, espealiy in the vicinity of the Salt Palace. S In June, Commissioner If the amount isn't increased, plans will be changed to utilize what the city does receive, explains Mr. Phillips. This could mean construction of fewer housing units or purchase of less expensive building sites. Commissioner Optimistic (In spite of some nagging delays, as of July 7th, Commissioner Phillips was final approval of ihe plans for Central City. .opnistic about commissioner Jennings Phillips. Phillips flew to Washington IT This will be used for upgrading a personally presenPAfrVcity's application for the grant. The building in line estimates cost contractor's commissioner says Salt Lake was given special consideration in its application. Before the grant is final the commissioner says the city will seek reconsideration of the $1.7 amount by th HUD regional office in Denver. Rising costs have changed the housing picture so much in a year, says Mr. Phillips, that more money will be needed to fulfill necessary land purchase and building plans. with HUD approval were nine square block area in Central City. Plans then call for fifty new public housing units to be constructed, existing hornet rennovated and curbs and gutters installed where none exist. A park area combining the Sumner school grounds, the Central City CAP complex and Third East is also possible with the new funding the commissioner indicated. Sumner was closed recently by v Efforts to bring successfully said the commissioner. progressing HUD has accepted the contractor's preliminary plans and when a guarantee for those plans and architectural fees is made by the city, HUD, or Model Cities,the contractor will begin construction. The commissioner hopes to have the "preliminaries out of the way" and start the demolition of old buildings"by the end of July.") |