{"id":19,"featured":0,"modified":"2025-12-04 01:39:24","latitude":40.76832739999999688507159589789807796478271484375,"longitude":-111.9010550999999935584128252230584621429443359375,"title":"Dreams of a Japanese American Community Center","subtitle":"","fullsize":null,"address":"Revitalized Japantown","all_locations":[],"zoom":12,"creator":["Craig Nagasawa"],"description":"Transcript<br />\r\n<br />\r\nCraig Nagasawa:&quot;If there&#039;s going to be more development and ideas, it doesn&#039;t seem that far-fetched to me to, for instance, why not have a community center? Put into one of these places where people could meet or both a community center and since I&#039;m an artist, a kind of museum exhibition space whose work was to recreate some of what happened there, the stories on the block, right in the community there, somewhere. I know it will never be the same, but at least it commemorates the idea that it was there. I&#039;d like to see the commitment in terms of whatever is going to get developed, or if it gets developed, which I would assume it probably will because of the monies involved. It seems to me the commitment could be bigger than what&#039;s already being proposed. To like push even further into what are ways to have the history right there. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nSo say you went to a sports center, but in the lobby of the sports center, there was a big thousand square foot space that was all about the stories, with video, with paintings, with, I don’t know, written stories. That could change. It could be, it could change, it could be curated, it could be a changing kind of idea. And at least artists could reconstruct the businesses, make a storefront, stick it in there for a while. Those are the kind of, I know they&#039;re more grandiose ideas and they&#039;re hard to politically make happen. But I think there can be much richer ways to reconstruct some of this.&quot;","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://utahjapantownstories.com/files/original/0f804db5bec34ca71e0ab6ebba561fa2.mp3":{"id":58,"mime-type":"audio/mpeg","title":"Craig Nagasawa describes a Japanese American community center and art space as part of revitalization","description":"Craig Nagasawa"}}}