Tooele’s historic Broadway Hotel site became a toxic debris pile. Now, it could finally become housing.

The parcel’s owner was ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution after being indicted for leaving the hotel’s remains in a toxic debris pile for months after a shoddy demolition.

Left: (Harry Shipler via Utah State Historical Society) The Hotel Tooele in Tooele in 1910. Right: (Environmental Protection Agency) The debris pile of the Hotel Tooele in 2022 shows asbestos at the site.