The Completion of the Church Office Building Plaza
This newsletter recently noted that a portion of the Church Office Building Plaza was nearing completion with some new features. Sure enough, it will open to the public on Thursday, June 1, according to a news release issued by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
You can access it from the west side of State Street, where you will see the stone monument engraved with a Bible verse and from a walkway between the Church Administration Building and the Lion House.
The church also said the Salt Lake Temple renovation had reached another major milestone.
Workers now have installed the first of 98 base isolators in the foundation. The base isolators are the key factor in protecting the landmark pioneer headquarters temple from the swaying earth during an earthquake.
A single base isolator weighs 18,000 pounds but can carry a weight of 8 million pounds. The base isolators will allow the temple to move side to side by as far as five feet during an earthquake.
Here’s my story on how the base isolator system works.