Hello again, everyone! Breaking news has been reported again by the Church. Church leaders today confirmed the official location and provided preliminary plans in detail for the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple. The plans include the temple, which will cover an approximate 87,000 square foot area, and an adjacent 21,000 square foot meetinghouse. No groundbreaking date has been announced.
But this was a most welcome development, as it gives some idea as to how soon we could see a groundbreaking. As I mentioned earlier, I anticipate that we may hear something on the Brasilia Brazil Temple next, unless any other temple surprises are announced. I would then anticipate the Richmond Virginia Temple being next, followed by the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple. But time will tell whether or not that proves to be correct.
I will take some time over the next few days as I am able to do so and will revisit the order in which temples are listed both on my temple construction progress report and in terms of specific estimates for known temple events, and will hope to have something published in both cases within the next week or less. I am grateful for this unanticipated but most welcome development.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019
BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: Church Identifies Location of the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple; Has Submitted Preliminary Plans to City
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Hello again, everyone! I am currently watching the 5:00 PM newscast on KSL. They just ran a story about the Saratoga Springs Temple announcement, The reporter covering that news noted that it could still be a while before construction begins on that temple, and said that he would explain that part of the story in the 6:00 PM newscast. Stay tuned for more on this in an hour or so. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWith the 6:00 PM newscast winding down now, I wanted to note that some breaking news reported at the top of the hour made it necessary for the reporter who shared the Saratoga Springs temple story at 5:00 to head to the location of the breaking news and report on that instead. As a result, the information about how long it will take for the Church to get construction started on this temple may be deferred until 10:00 PM. Stay tuned. I will pass anything along that I learn ASAP. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHello again, everyone! Just wanted to pass some additional information on to you about the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple. I found out yesterday evening that, due to the fact that that temple will be built as part of a new community that will be established, a groundbreaking on the temple could be delayed to some degree or another until the housing part of that community is more developed. That is one of many factors I am considering as I work on yet another revision to sections of my temple construction progress report, and on updating the estimates I have previously provided for future temple events.
ReplyDeleteBut that delay should not be surprising at all. As some of you may recall, the artist's rendering for the Bangkok Thailand Temple was released in March of last year, while the groundbreaking arrangements were not announced until 8 months later, and it took two more months before the groundbreaking actually took place. How Bangkok's situation might compare to that of the Richmond Virginia or Saratoga Springs Temples may not be so clear for the next little while.
And in relation to the Bangkok Thailand Temple, since it is a larger one than we have seen built in a while, I was directed to information that construction on the temple proper could potentially be delayed until early next year. How exactly that might change when it could be completed is another question, and one to which there may be no easy answer.
And that leads me to the final point I want to make here: I am again revisiting the "Groundbreaking anticipated" and "Announced" sections of my temple construction progress report, and my specific estimates for known temple events, and intend to post those at some point within the next couple of weeks, if not sooner than that, in addition to a few other projects I am working on. Stay tuned for all of that. Thanks, everyone!