![]() ![]() ![]() For our wards party I have created this handout and these table pieces. Right now I am serving on the activities committee and am helping with out Relief Society Birthday party. The Relief Society Birthday is March so I’ve put together a list of some amazing women in the history of Relief Society along with printable portraits. “I think we’re seeing progress that way in our downtown, and I think that all over the nation, that’s kind of the way that downtown’s are able to compete and revitalize is by carving out a niche, identifying a strategy, and pursuing it.Print off these beautifully illustrated portraits of Relief Society women with their information which is perfect for your next Relief Society birthday meeting. Paul Laursen sees this as something of a model for Brigham City and cities its size. ![]() This hopefully means Brigham City can compete with larger cities on quality of life and its Main Street can better host specialized businesses like Fran Leslie’s quilt shop, the kinds that don’t compete with big-box stores and online retailers. Thanks to the Walker’s determination and Opportunity Zone investment, the Union Block will soon be open to the community, attracting events and people. It just needs to be preserved and somebody’s got to do it.” “It’s like this overseer of our Main Street and it’s always been a big part of the community. “The building just has a good vibe to it,” says David. “It’s fun to see these old historic buildings around Main Street being uplifted and being used again,” says Leslie. Here’s this old, dilapidated building just sitting there,” says Leslie, “and now you go in there and look at it and it’s beautiful.” The investors will avoid a degree of taxes on those gains depending on how long they leave them invested in the Opportunity Zone.įran Leslie, who runs a quilt shop in Brigham City, is happy that the Walkers have taken up the Union Block’s cause. Because the Union Block is within a designated Opportunity Zone - one of more than 8,700 across the country - those investors were able to move unrealized capital gains into a Qualified Opportunity Fund to help finance the Union Block’s restoration. The Opportunity Zone tax incentive made it possible for the Walkers to secure the outside investment that their project needed. I like fixing things.”īut the Walkers aren’t sustaining their efforts solely through a love for community and an appreciation for fixing things. “For at least the last 30 years, I’ve always been involved in renovating something,” says David. David is even milling old-growth maple floorboards by hand as part of the building’s repair. And the Walkers are doing a lot of that extra work themselves. That concern for the city’s history and people is why the Walkers are willing to put in so much extra effort. As David puts it, “we’ve been working on trying to bring events and activities here into downtown, and as we’ve done that, we’ve realized that there’s some limitations.” David says, “structurally, we didn’t have any really good place to gather.” The Walkers noticed that a communal space was missing from Main Street after they formed a group to help preserve Brigham City’s Historic Downtown and spur economic development. “You just can’t doze it and put something else up and expect to have the same sense of community,” says David. But the Walkers aren’t bulldozing the 127-year-old building. ![]()
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