We have been informed that the price of building a new campus for the homeless on 2200 West among warehouses and not far from the airport would be $75 million.
We’ve heard all this before. Do you recall that the new Utah prison was supposed to cost $550 million when the project was originally sold to the Legislature, but it ended up costing twice as much and for a smaller campus?
The proposed homeless campus will have incarcerated individuals (against their will), which requires increased building standards, like the Utah prison. Don’t be fooled again by a lowball estimate. Perhaps $500 million would be a better forecast of building costs.
James King, Salt Lake City