Demolition of old Utah State Prison gets underway with a massive thud
Draper • It took some colossal pummeling and three hefty tugs from an excavator Tuesday to bring down the first guard tower at the now-empty Utah S...
Draper • It took some colossal pummeling and three hefty tugs from an excavator Tuesday to bring down the first guard tower at the now-empty Utah State Prison in what officials called a significant milestone.More than 150 people gathered around the north end of the former penitentiary in Draper near the Timpanogos Women's Correctional Facility to watch the surveillance tower collapse, launching months of demolition work to clear the 600-acre site for development of a futuristic and green space-rich community to be named The Point, one of the largest public projects in Utah history.