4 Salt Lake City schools are permanently closing. Here’s what may happen to the buildings.

Community members want to see the properties repurposed for neighborhood use.

(The Salt Lake Tribune) Clockwise from top left: M. Lynn Bennion Elementary, Hawthorne Elementary, Mary W. Jackson Elementary and Riley Elementary will all shut down, following a Salt Lake City School District board vote on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2023.

4 Salt Lake City schools are permanently closing. Here’s what may happen to the buildings.

Community members want to see the properties repurposed for neighborhood use.

RELATED STORIES

It’s official: 4 Salt Lake City elementary schools will close

Salt Lake City parents question how district chose schools ahead of potential campus closure vote

Utah’s oldest school will leave 9th and 9th. Its 1921 building was made for a ’different era.’

‘Scary and overwhelming’: Students, parents plead to keep Salt Lake City schools open

Here’s what would happen to teachers, students if 4 Salt Lake City schools shut down

MOST VIEWED

1

He thought a Michelin email was a scam. Now, everyone knows this Utah deli’s food is for real.

2

The University of Utah plans to lay off hundreds after seeking advice from national consulting firms. Here’s what we know.

3

Utah’s coldest place may hold a key to combating the state’s suffocating inversions

4

Why 3-star recruit Diesel Dart, brother of NFL QB Jaxson Dart, chose Utah over BYU and Michigan

5

The Constitution ‘compels’ compromise, LDS leader Dallin Oaks says in speech at Washington National Cathedral

Sponsored Story

A month to (re)discover Utah’s Jordan River