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Show Gateway Project Is from 300 Westto Interstate 15 and south from North Temple to 1000 South.In those 500 acres, the city hopes to bring housing, restaurants, shops, museums,offices, open spaceand transportation centers. The map belowis thefirst conceptual land-use plan proposed in 1994. DENVER — New York Ho. San Francisco has Union Street. Denver has Ledo, And Salt Lake City? Satake City has . the Gateway. Well, not yet. Salt Lake City’s Gateway does not comparewith any of those tony neighborhoods fullofairy lofts, art galleries, chichi shops and nouvelle cuisine restaurants. But someday it could, Right now, the city’s Gateway is full of blocks and blocks of warehouses, manufacturing plants and railroad tracks. In between are thriving grocery wholesalers, cab companies, newspaper-dispatch centers, homeless services and a smattering of historic homes. Someare in better shape than others. Ten years ago, Denver was in similar circumstances. Colorado's oil boom ofthe late 1970s and early '80s spontaneously See S, ., Page B-4 Are Tax Hikes Inevitable? BY REBECCA WALSH ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Three years ago, owners of property in Salt Lake City’s Gateway could not give away their office buildings, warehouses and empty lots. Property Owners May Take the Hardest Hits Now, they are holding out for the highest bidder. In 1994, the Gateway was a concept, an idea that just might turn into something more than an industrial blight on the city. Buildings stood vacant, unsold. Only after the 2002 Winter Olympics was awardedto Salt Lake City in 1995, after an artists’ BY JUDY FAHYS enclave of workshops and apartments opened, and after city officials suggested moving the railroad tracks, only then did property valuesrise. Theystill are going up. “It’s gold-rush days down here,” says Stephen Goldsmith, a community developer and sculptor. Goldsmith transformed one of the Gateway’s warehouses — the California Tire & Rubber Co.building at 353 W. 200 South — into 53 apartments forartists and crafts people. He turned another building — the old Bradshaw Auto Parts warehouse — into work spacefor those artists. Goldsmith is trying to consolidate property for another mini-neighborhood,complete with 140 units of affordable housing,a child-carefacility, restaurants, a Center for Ethnic Studies and a grocery. ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE @ vPstation Q Rio Grande station @ Amtrak station @ Aait-bustransit hub Wordis that statewide property tax hikes are on the way, based on the state Tax Commission’s decision last week to changeits methodforsizing up tax bills for some of Utah’s biggest companies. Homeowners and small businesses in the state probably can expect to be tapped te come up with more property taxes because a big chunk will be carvedoutof the tax base now madeupofthestate's 100 ‘‘centrally-assessed” businesses. ‘Troubleis, no one’s sure how big the chunk might be e. In Emery County, the reverberations have been impossible to ignore. Based on somepreliminary numbers run by Assessor Jim Fauver, the Tax Commission’s decision appears certain to devastate county budgets and Butsimilar to other area developers, he is compet- ing with national real-estate investmenttrusts, national developers and Utah real-estate agents for property in Salt Lake City’s Gateway. “This was a place where nobody would buy property for any price,” says Jim Lewis, president of Lewis, Wolcott & Dornbush RealEstate. ‘Now, you bump into competitors when you walk down the street. And everybody's keeping their cardsclose to their chests.” Despite the glum of local pers, the real estate activity encourages Mayor Deedee Corradini. “Three years ago, the Gateway wasjust a gleam in our eyes. People laughedat us for thinking it could be something more,” she said. “It’s exciting that property is selling, that people see a future for the area.” Existing viaduct Proposed viaduct Inter-city rail track Light rail Short-term freightrail Boulevard a = Park Drive Main St TTLEI. Salt Lake City's Gateway Sait Lake City leaders plan to revive the Gatewayarea, which stretches S.L.’s Golden Goose EBECCA WALSH LAKE TRIBUNE WEATHER Page B-8 = wi Temple Or TO OM ae Ee Tee eeeLCL GEee Page B-6 For Blueprint * Section B tah OBITUARIES S.L. Looks To Denver amen She Salt Lake Tribune SUNDAY/Aprii 27, 1997 El Residential B® Open space 12 years I have beenhere.” Randy Jensen,business administrator for Emery County Schools, wonders how small taxpayers can absorb the double-digit tax hike that seems inevitable. Fauver's estimates suggestthe district stands to lose $1.9 million ofits $9.3 million budget. “We cannotfunction at the level we want with the revenue we have got — let alone with a cut of 25 (©) Public facilities Community marketdistribution @ i B® Mixer d use percent,”he said. “We can’t stand the revenueloss.” The Tax Commission on Monday ruled on a tax See EXPECT,Page B-6 residential/office/commercial The Salt Lake Tribune See GATEWAY,Page B-5 schools. “They've opened a can of worms,”he said Friday. “This is one of the worst things that hashit us in the Chart of tax breakdown BS Is 80-Year-Old Woman a Criminal as Prosecutors Say, or Is She Just Forgetful? BY VINCE HORIUCHI ‘THESALT LAKETRIBUNE Every day, 80-year-old Phyllis Smith leaves her Salt Lake City homeand takes a bus to have lunch downtownand occasionally shop at ZCMI. On March 4, she ran into trouble. The womanwalked out of ZCMIwith a blouse and several other items in a shopping bag. A security guard nabbed her. Is Smith — a woman with nocriminal history whohas lived in the same home for 25 years — forgetful or a criminal? Defense Attorney Robert Archuleta said Smith suffers from short-term memory loss and did not meanto steal the items. ButSait Lake City prosecutors say she is a criminal who should be punished. Smith has been charged with misdemeanorretail theft, and if convicted, she could go to jail. A trial is scheduled for May5. “If thereis a classic case wherejustice mandatesthe [charge] be dismissed, this is it,” Archuleta said. “If this is the way oe city does business, it’s mean spirited.” City prosecutor, Cheryl Luke, said her office “does not engagein any kind of age discrimination. We look at the facts of the case and prosecute on the merits.” But Kathleen King, a psychologist in tion.” Archuleta conceded when his client Lake Regional Medical Center, formerly shoplifted once before in September, Holy Cross Hospital, said she does not gerontology, said prosecutors dealing evaluation by the Department of Human with elderly suspects — especially those with no previous criminal records — should look deeper before going to court. “It is very unlikely in late life that people will [begin] a life of crime,” she said. “It would be nice if. . . prosecutors take that moreas a warningsign of a potentially deteriorating medical condi- “Short-term memory loss, impaired judgment, poor reasoning, poor mental processing are all a part of dementing illnesses,” she said. “That could lead to picking up things from store andthinking youpaid for them.” prosecutors declined to take herto court. He hopesto havehis client undergo an Services before hertrial. King agrees anevaluationis important. Smith, a longtime volunteer at Salt remembertaking the items. “T didn’t intend forit to be this way,” she said. “I’m not that kind of person.” A doctor who examined Smith confirmed she suffers from memory loss. Sheis in “excellent physical health, except for significant loss of short-term memory and decreased cognitive function,” said Earl A. Wight, doctorof inter- See IS WOMAN,Page B-6 IHC Blood-Bank License Suspended By FDAfor Procedural Problems BY REBECCA WALSH ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has suspended the license of Utah’s largest blood bank. Friday afternoon, FDA officials told Intermoun- tain Health Care to stop sending blood outside the state. And they asked IHC to stop drawing and shipping blood in Utah, except in emergencies. This is the second time IHC’s blood-services license has been interrupted. In 1995, the FDA suspended IHC’s license after inspectors found the blood bank was not following federal guidelines to test for the AIDS virus and Hepatitis B. This time around, IHC’s record-keeping and administrative proceduresare being questioned. In the ensuing confusion, state hospital directors scrambled Saturdayto coordinate the blood supply. “We shouldregard this bloodas a state resource,” said Jeffrey Saffle, director of University of Utah Health Sciences Center's burn-trauma unit. IHC provides 80 percent of the state’s blood supply — every hospital in Utah gets blood from IHC. Since 1995, IHC has been required to send its blood to Denver for testing. “The safety of the blood is not at issue,” said IHC spokesman Jess Gomez. “Weknowthat all blood that has been released to the publicis safe.” The FDAallowed blood that THC already had shippedto beused. And IHCwill be able to distrib- ute blood fromother licensed blood banks. But any blood IHC collects whileits license is suspended can onlybe used during emergencies in Utah. You need to cross every ‘t' and dot every ‘i,’ which has not been done," Gomezsaid. “By not folry protocol specifically, that creates a poBut Lawrence Bachorik, the FDA’s deputy associate commissioner for public affairs, rejected any effort to downplay THC'sviolations, “Twice in two years is not a commonthing,” Bachorik said, adding the administration bypassed other, less-severe options to deal with the problem.““We THEYCAME, THEY WALKED, THEY CARED view the violations as very serious,” he said. Late Friday, IHC officials notified their clients of the problem andstarted calling blood banks in 15 otherstates for extra blood. By Saturday, more than 400 units had arrived. But that blood won'tlast. Nearly 4,000 people took to the streets surrounding Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City to raise money for the March of Dime’s WalkAmerica. Almost $400,000 is raised each year in Utah. The Salt Lake route was one of 12 walk sites throughout Utah. More than 1 million walkers in more than 1,500cities and towns nationwide were expected to raise more than $67 million. During the past 27 years, walkers haveraised more than $800 million nationally to help the March of Dimes fund programs preventing birth defects, “It’s incumbent upon usto find blood for all our clients,” said Chris Lehman, medical director of IHC’s blood bank.“Butbloodis in short supply.” THC’sindefinite hiatus thrusts most of Utah’s hospitals into heightened managementof their blood. Saturday, members of the state Emergency Medical Services Committee, a group of hospital administrators, blood-bank managers and doctors and nurses, metto discuss the blood shortage. O-negative, the universal blood type,is the scareest in Utah's blood banks. Saturday, the group established four centers for blood drives for O-negative and A-negative blood: the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and St. Mark's Hospitalin Salt Lake City, Ogden Regional Medical Center and Columbia Mountain View Hospital in Payson. Meantime, state Emergency MedicalServicesofficials will monitor the blood supply at every Utah hospital, sending out a tally every evening so hospital directors can determine which hospitals to call for rare blood in emergencies, where to divert pa- tients and whetherto cancelelective surgeries. That's a system already in place between LDS Hos- pital and the University of Utah. Now,the management system will be regional. Hospitals owned by four major medical providers — THC, Columbia, Paracelcus and the university — will coordinate their blood supplies through the state. Tim Kelly/ The Salt Lake Tribune The Associated Press contribued to this story. UTAH QUOTES The state has enough nuclear-waste dumps, We can hardly deal with what we‘ve got, Downwinders will opposethis and any new proposals for dump facilities with everythingwecanthrowat it,” — Preston Truman, spokesman for the Dowawinders, on Laidlaw's proposal to accept radioactive waste at Its Grassy Mountain landfill in Tooele County “We're not young or hip, and we're not particularly skinny. We're real women.”” — Bernadette Razevska, co-publisher of Web Ladies newsletter, which teaches “normal” people how to tap into the World Wide Web “T look at things as just starting. It’s a long way from being over with.” — John Stockton, the day after the Jazz completed the regular NBA sea- son with a team record 64 wins “We're in the municipality of Park City, not the People’s Republic of Park City. It’s still legal to make a buck.” — Park City businessman Quentin Scott scolding those who would deny the United Park Clty Mines company from developing the Flagstaff Mountain housing development “Most of the community hasn't woken uptoit yet, In Utah, we think we're pure and we don't havethese problems.” — Glen Lambert, executive director of Odyssey House, Salt Lake residential treatment center for drug and alcohol addicts, on the explosion of methamphetamine in Utah in the past four years |