LDS Exit From Mesa? Needs + Demands For The Area Are Changing

According to this report in Deseret News early today the future is uncertain announced in this headline:

Undetermined future for LDS Church's Mesa Arizona Temple Visitors' Center

By Scott Taylor | Published: February 6, 2018 9:35 am

SALT LAKE CITY — On the heels of last week’s announced closing of two LDS Church temple visitors centers, the long-term future of a third — the Mesa Arizona Temple Visitors’ Center — is now uncertain.
Is Mesa losing out to Gilbert again where there's a new temple?
The visitors' center will close on May 19, the same day the Mesa Arizona Temple closes for extensive renovations, said Daniel Woodruff, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in a statement released Tuesday morning.

“At this point, the future use of that building is undetermined,” he added. “Church leaders will make a decision based on the needs and demands of the area.”

The closing of the Mesa Arizona Temple — a second renovation for the temple originally dedicated in 1927 — was announced last summer. . .

 

Additional closings were also announced in London and Hamilton, New Zealand.

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