tearing down the downtown mall.
Kent Jorgensen - 2001 Council Candidate
October, 2001
Kiss the Ogden City Mall goodbye.It's dead,
to be buried, hauled off actually, by a 4-3 vote
of the City Council Tuesday night.
[T]he self-described "new kids," newly-elected
members Kent Jorgensen and Mark Johnson,
swung the vote, even taking the lead to make
and second, respectively, the demolition motion.Standard-Examiner
January 16, 2002.
We've been elected to make good, bold, daring decisions.
I think we need to move ahead.Kent Jorgenson, newly sworn-in City Council Member
Reneging on his earlier campaign promise and taunting
"dumb" voters like me, who gullibly took him for his word
Standard-Examiner
January 16, 2002.
We're in control of our own destiny for the first time
on this mall site.Mark Johnson, newly sworn-in City Council Member
Standard-Examiner
January 16, 2002.
"The longer we wait, sitting on our thumbs, wondering and worrying, the worse it gets," Safsten said. "we've got to keep moving."
Standard-Examiner
January 16, 2002.
[Councilman]Filiaga spoke strongly against the demolition, saying, "I feel like we're riding a train going too fast that's going to crash, and we have no insurance. And we own the train."
Standard-Examiner
January 16, 2002.
[Mary] Hall, council vice-chairman, proposed delaying the vote until April until the design team the city administration is currently assembling can put together more detail on the open air "multi-use lifestyle center" officials plan to replace the mall. Hall said she talked to three architects who were responding to the administration's request for proposals regarding the new project and said they all seemed surprised the city was moving so quickly to raze the site. "They said 'Demolish? Before you have a plan?Standard-Examiner
January 16, 2002.
Donna Burdett was appointed in February 2004 to the Ogden City Council. She filled Mark Johnson’s vacancy after he accepted a full-time employment opportunity with Ogden City. The appointment is for the remaining time of Mr. Johnson’s term.
Ogden City Website
February 2004
The mall site 3 years and 8 months after
Councilman Jorgensen flip-flopped on his
2001 campaign pledge, and became the swing
vote on the council's rushed decision to
demolish the old downtown mall, a mere two
weeks after he was first sworn in.
September 30, 2005.
