Katie Pappas: Plans for inland port facilities in rural Utah are just as risky as those for Salt Lake City.
BZI and Commerce Crossroads plans to develop a new 820-acre sustainable industrial park and transportation hub in Cedar City have been approved by the Utah Inland Port Authority board and that the collaborative partnership will establish the first rural inland port in the state of Utah.Five years in, the Utah Inland Port Authority has little to show for its massive development project in Salt Lake City. The heart of the project, the transloading facility, never made much business sense.
Currently there are few exports and only 12 maritime shipping containers from Iron and Washington counties over an entire year, according to the project plan. Annual area imports of 1,512 containers, or 4.1 containers per day, still don’t justify even one transloading facility and creates a surplus of empty containers. The Iron Springs Plan leaves the door open to export just about anything, including coal and alfalfa. We just don’t know and questions to the UIPA board go unanswered.
Meanwhile, at its April 11 meeting, the Tooele County Council passed a resolution supporting the development of a port just south of I-80, even though there has been no feasibility study and little communication with residents. The area contains wetlands and there are no utilities in the immediate area.
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