Owners of fire-damaged SLC bars give Utah liquor board a reopening update

Owners of three downtown Salt Lake City bars that were heavily damaged in an August fire gave the state’s liquor commissioners an update on when their businesses will be open again — and the news was better for one bar than the other two.

“White Horse is coming along,” Jason LeCates, managing partner of Bourbon Group, the bar’s owner, told the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Service’s commission at the board’s monthly meeting Thursday.

LeCates repeated to liquor commissioners what he recently told a Salt Lake Tribune reporter , that White Horse was not hit as hard by the fire that tore through four of its neighboring businesses, but that water damage from fighting the fire collapsed the front third of the bar.

“The important part of the building survives,” LeCates told the com