In hunt for ‘white elephants’ in Utah, Olympic commission comes up empty-handed

Karl Stoss and a group of eight other international notables went on safari last week around Salt Lake City. The target of their hunt? The not-so-elusive “white elephants.” That’s the Future Host Commission chairman’s term for venues built for an Olympics that afterward sit unused or in disrepair. Yet as he and the rest of his team wrapped up their visit Saturday, Stoss reported that despite searching from Ogden to Provo to Park City and many parking lots and parks in between, they had been unsuccessful in finding a single...