Lynn Pershing News Today

Washington Square Dispatch

A proposed affordable housing plan in Salt Lake City has struck a nerve with some residents.

Its gone. At least for Angela Jensen, Alex Sparks and the countless residents who cycled in and out of this bohemian icon, it is gone, and with it not only the opportunity for community, but also for affordable living in a city growing anxiously in anticipation of an onslaught of population. China Blue—or the Blue, as it was fondly called—sits at 959 E. 200 South in an historic district on Salt Lakes east-central community among five homes targeted for demolition to make way for new, multi-...