Salt Lake Tribune - ’This old LDS gymnasium will get new life as affordable housing’

The church donated the Liberty Wells Center, once a popular neighborhood recreation spot, to Ivory Innovations.

There’s a pleasant musty smell inside the 1950s era Liberty Wells Center on the corner of 400 East and 700 South.

Amro Al-Nimri walks through two sets of doors into the gymnasium where a scoreboard is dead, a few of the basketball nets torn and the old wood floors gleam. It’s been many years since kids and a good share of adults played on this court.

This former community gathering place will soon be transformed into something entirely new: housing for moderate-income families and individuals.