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Show 2A Lakeside Review, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1981 By RON KNOWLTON Review Staff BOUNTIFUL Nineteen months ago Kenneth Newman saw fulfillment of a lifelong dream when he purchased a home at 44 E. 400 N. and opened an art and antique gallery. "Now he sees that dream fading and hes angry about it. If a mall is built as proposed in downtown Bountiful, Newmans prbperty would be directly on the site, and would probably become of a parking lot for the mall. part ' Newman would need to relocate and relocating into the mall would be expensive. On the other hand, if he chose to locate elsewhere, he said he wonders where he could find another piece of property in as choice a location as he now has. I purchased this property because I knew it was a choice piece of property. I knew the potential was here for a small business. And T have a successful business, Newman said. Newman has just completed a summary of his first 19 months in business and said he discovered the main problem facing our business is the downtown redevelopment agency. I He claims that the whole concept df a downtown mall is a disaster. Our community is not in a position to support another mall, he said. 'He claimed that other shopping eenters are struggling. Z They have to be just struggling. I cant imagine how theyre going to continue to meet their lease obligation, he said. "I think the Bountiful business community is being sold for a mess qf porridge, he says. And the thought of having to rjpove from his present location, where his business has continued to increase and hes seen his profits $se, is mind boggling. Why they cant leave a small m ftkairissue businessman to his schemes and devices is beyond my imagination, Newman said. A downtown mall would have to be approved by the Bountiful Redevelopment Agency and the City Council. Presently, a feasibility study is being conducted by a development firm, Machan, Hampshire Properties, that would like to build a mall in the city. The redevelopment agency has designated the downtown area as a project area. The site proposed for the mall is the area between Center and 400 North on the east side of Main Street. The developers say the mall would have about 325,000 square feet of leasable space and about 1,600 parking spaces, with three large, anchor stores, and many smaller stores. Newman says that city officials have ramrodded the mall proposal through without listening to opposition to the proposal. He said he sent a letter of protest to the city which was never read during a City Council meeting or a meeting of the redevelopment agency. Also, he claimed the Council dismissed three citizens committees because it did not like the com-- , mittees findings about the mall. Theyre intent on doing what they want to do. Hopefully the elections will take care of that, he said. Theyre going to have to condemn this property to get me out of here, he vows. I dont intend to be moved by the redevelopment agency. But around the corner and down the street, Dale Holbrook, owner of Lakewoods Home Furnishings, is just as vehement in his support of a mall coming to the downtown area. Holbrook, who has actively promoted the downtown mall concept, said that the downtown business district has seen very little growth KENNETH NEWMAN, owner in Bountiful speaks out against Bountiful. in the almost 50 years that his has been located on Main Street, and has in fact gone back- - library Issue popula-busine- flea Bern ; We decided to withdraw from the county system and use our By LYNDIA GRAHAM . Raviow CorrMpondant ; the city cant build a downtown mall, he said. Although his business would probably not become a part of the mall and the city has not proposed that his store be torn down to make way for the mall, he believes that the mall would benefit his business and the rest of the business establishments in the downtown area by bringing more customers into the downtown area to shop. As conditions are at present, I cant think of one store thats thinking of expanding in the downtown area, he said. Name one party that is willing to spend $100,000 to improve their downtown area? Id be surprised, he said. Eighty percent of what would be spent in the mall is going to Salt Lake City now. Do we want it to continue? Holbrook asked. "I cant believe that 75 percent of the merchants wouldnt do better in the location theyre in (with the new mall), he adds. He says that he would even welcome another furniture store to move into the area because of what he believes is a lack of competition and selection. As it is now, many go to Salt Lake City to buy furniture because of the wider selection and the opportunity to compare items at the various stores without having to travel a great distance, he said. He says that now is the perfect opportunity for the city to proceed with the mall because the city now has the power to put together four good blocks. In the past the city was unable to come up with the land needed for a mall, he said. of Newman's Antiques and Art The problem he sees with many a mall proposed for downtown of the area merchants is that theyre afraid of competition. Also, he said that the average wards in relation to the housewife is not willing to spend tion. much time in Bountiful shopping I cant see for the life of me why because the businesses are so spread out and also because the downtown area is lacking a major department store. Ill tell you why theyre not patronizing Bountiful. We dont have enough here to patronize. We dont have the selection, he said. Bountiful has the nicest area for homes of any city in Utah or in the world, for that matter. Why ha I was surprised and a little disappointed by the action (of the city council), said Whitesides. LAYTON Layton City is upset funds to build our own. We have 'with Davis County, the County is had a lot of response offering he told the flaming the state legislature and it commissioners. Library for teems thatis the no closer to a solution. County Commissionr Glen Saun5 Members of the City Council and ders told the group under present the mayor met with members of economic conditions and restraints the County Commission last Thurs- we just dont know when the proposed library would be built. day at theto countyto commissions The state legislature has tied our invitation try get a better Understanding of both sides of the hands . . . that and the economy, problem created by Layton Citys said Commissioner Ernest House bill 164 has Eberhard. announcement of its intent to withdraw from the county library sys- mandated that we can have no more than a 6 percent increase in tem earlier this month. Stating that metropolitan Layton our budget and were facing 10 to 12 (overs as much area now as does percent inflation. "Bill 104 has caused a rollback in metropolitan Salt Lake City and if properly planned might someday evaluations of residential, public have as many people, Mayor Lewis utilities, and state evaluated tax Shields said that Layton needs a properties causing a cut in tax inlibrary and we feel well get it come, he said. Eberhard also stated that the Quicker this way than waiting for the county. county is constantly losing its tax base through annexation. 1 Weve wanted and needed a libIts purely economical, stated rary in Layton for a long time, the tnayor told the commission. Saunders. Commissioner Harry Gerlach reYears ago there was a lot of discussion that Davis County would ported that the $58,000 which had (uild a large headquarters library been set aside for the Layton Libin Layton and that made a lot of rary had been short circuited and transferred elsewhere bepeople feel pretty good. The city volunteered to donate cause of the money problems the .land. Then we didnt get the brought on by the two house bills Information we should have re- - mentioned. We also had to take $50,000 from the situation. We then farding was still in the hopper but the fairgrounds fund and flood conRelayed and we could accept that, trol money which might affect the but I more time passed and more safety and welfare of the people, Belays. Now it looks like its on the he said. We are in a time of crisis man(ack burner indefinitely and maybe never will Layton get a library agement, he said. Yes, we are in favor of a library for Layton but we Built by the county, Shields said. t dont know how we can do it. Various ways that a library could be brought into Layton as suggested to the Layton councilmen were discussed but didnt receive much support from the chairman of the county library board, Evan Whitesides, or Head Librarian tfe : WEST Lakeside Review BOUNTI-'FU- L Published weekly and distributed free Wednesday morning by carrier. Residents will have an opportunity tonight to meet the cnine council hopitys efuls and four mayor candidates at a meet -- Jeanne Layton. Councilman Golden Sill said he had been asked why a public library system couldnt be combined into the school library systems. Whitesides said that because of differences in the collections of books it would be necessry to segregate the two systems and staff it with different people. It surely wouldnt save he said. money, In schools where this has been tried in the past, Ms. Layton said, the students often thought of the segregated books as dirty books and the teachers felt that the books werent of literary value. I have never heard or read of a situation where that has been successful, she said. recreation center is being considered. SUN PUBLISHING INC. flight 'begin at 7 p.m. The meeting will be Iheld at the West Bou- ntiful Elementary School, 760 W. 400 N. Candidates will S3SS South 1900 West ' P.0. 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It appears that Layton will go ahead with its plans to withdraw its funds from the county library system and begin its own library soon. The possibility of incorporating the library into the planned civic and . Hopefuls fro Talk To Public ss vent we got a downtown to go with it? he said. He said that a study he had seen showed that the big stores at the Layton Hills Mall were doing better than theyd projected, and that all but seven stores in the mall were making it. Thelma Putnam, homeowner on 300 North, said she hates to see the mall come because she may lose her home. I love it here, I love my house and this location, she said. She said she really has no plans to relocate and doesnt expect the mall to come for a while. But if it does come, she said she believes the city will have to condemn property to obtain it from many of the homeowners near her. All I do is talk to the people around here and theyre mad, she said. I dont know what theyll (the city) do. You save all your life for a she said, piece of property . . . staring out into space and her voice trailing. ' She said that one thing that especially makes area residents angry is when officials talk 'of the proposed mall development area as a blighted area. She said she is also concerned that she may be gypped out of the value of her property. W.H. Williams and his wife own a home on 100 East. He is a former Bountiful City recorder. Williams said he thinks the council is 20 years too late and that the mall should have been built long ago. He said the mall probably would have worked out at one time, but now, I dont think it would be very successful. He said that hes not bitterly opposed to the mall, but is concerned about his wife and himself, 85 years old, having to move, when theyre now so close to town and to shopping centers. Why should we move away from it? How would we get back? he asked. 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