What should happen to old Raging Waters site? Community conversation planned this week

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The abandoned Raging Waters site is finally getting closer to a makeover.

On Wednesday evening, the city will give an update on the property, which has fallen into disrepair since its shutdown four years ago.

“There was a lot of vandalism, stripping of copper wire, fires, a couple of injuries from folks,” said Turner Bitton, who leads the Glendale Community Council. “Basically a vacant property that’s been a magnet for problems for the neighbors here.”

The city will also kick off a process of taking ideas and brainstorming the potential for a large regional park.

Bitton expects the community engagement period to happen over the next year and then for the redevelopment to begin.

“We’ve had all kinds of people reaching out to us,” he said, “and as of now, it is a blank slate. It’s about 25 acres. On that piece of land, you could have something like Liberty Park, where you’ve got walking paths, well lit, lots of opportunities for biking and skateboarding and scootering and that type of thing.”

The community council is hosting a community conversation on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Information is available on the group’s Facebook page.