The site finally selected for Utah’s new homeless services campus will certainly be out of sight.

But if it also falls out of mind, it will fail, at great cost to the taxpayers, as well as to the many human beings who desperately needed its help. And then the rest of us will have nothing to do but watch as lost souls and unsanitary encampments once again populate our streets, parks and riverbanks.

After nearly a year of searching, the Utah Office of Homeless Services announced Wednesday that it had selected a 16-acre parcel of land owned by Salt Lake City at 2520 N. 2200 West. That’s in an area that has been morphing from rural to industrial, hard by I-215 and not far from Salt Lake International Airport.

The plan had been for the facility to be up and running by this October. But t

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