Utah Heritage Foundation

Today is demolition day at the West Jordan Sugar Factory.

Demolition will clear the way for an office building for the Third District Court, which is adjacent to the sugar factory.

Built in 1914, the complex of three buildings and two silos was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.  Since 2003, Utah Heritage Foundation has been supporting the work of the local Sugar Factory Committee toward rehabilitation of the complex.  Recently though, a political change of perspective has been led by Mayor Melissa Johnson, decrying the buildings as “an eyesore” and stating that in her opinion “the buildings aren’t architecturally significant.”

Earli