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While the site of the old Cottonwood Mall sits locked up and undeveloped, a local resident is hoping input from a survey he conducted will be considered in the future.
Survey Recommends Against Tall Buildings In Cottonwood Mall Redevelopment
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n unsolicited, informal survey of Holladay City residents seems to indicate support for a new development at the old Cottonwood Mall site, which would be similar to the original mall. The survey found strong support for keeping any new development at two or three stories high. It also showed strong opposition to the inclusion of low-income housing or affordable apartments. The survey was generated by Ron Hilton, a Holladay resident. Hilton also conducted a survey when the city was contemplating what to do with what is now the Village Center. He felt it might be beneficial for
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city officials to see what suggestions people have for the redevelopment at Cottonwood Mall. Hilton presented the findings to the Holladay City Council during the public comment period on Jan. 8. He emailed the survey to a list of up to 400 people he had generated from a previous survey about the Village Center project and from a failed bid for the Utah House of Representatives.
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An artist rendering of the proposed look for the new Cottonwood Heights City Hall.
Cottonwood Heights City Hall Project Is Nearing Approval
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hen voters in Cottonwood Heights approved a $14.5 million bond for construction of a new city hall last year, civic leaders may have thought the hard part of getting the project going was done. It wasn’t. Since last summer, city leaders, planners and staff members have been working with architects to create a floor plan for the new building, which will serve as the government complex and a city center for various events. The problem is that once those architects began incorporating everything proposed from various department heads and
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the city council members themselves into the equation, the cost to build it exceeded the bond. “Unfortunately, we kind of did it backwards,” Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore, Jr. said. “We hurried to secure the bonds first to catch lower interest rates, but in the process of doing that, based on preliminary estimates of the cost to build, we came up short.”
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quotable community:
“Volunteers are the backbone of Cottonwood Heights.
They spend countless hours yearly and never expect anything in return for all their time and devotion.”
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