What Killed Downtown Salt Lake City?

Main Street in Downtown Salt Lake City was once a bustling district full of unique local shops, charm and life. Today the street is almost dead. I investigate how and why this happened, why 2 malls were built on the street 30 years ago and what the future might bring with the new development that will demolish the malls in attempt to bring back some of what has been lost. Visit UtahStories.com for more.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• downtown
• salt
• lake
• city
• creek
• center
• crossroads
• mall
• Z.C.M.I
• L.D.S
• church
• Gateway

[rmarkosian]

Salt Lake City is the best city I've been to. It has small city politeness but with nice bars and great local spots. Thanks to the malls being torn down the local culture is flourishing on 300 South. Long live local Utah!

[asmetuyasiempre]

WELL AT LEAST THEY DONT BLAME IT ON THE TACO STANDS..lol

[stevemallen1]

And God Said "Build more strip malls" and the Mormons made it so.

[paulfbest]

@Luciferminusone

yep,,monsta size blizzards will strike the USA EVERY WINTER until Messiah the King returns.

SLC has no chance at survival, no matter how many billions LDS cult has in the bank.

Money will not save in these last days, only a true living faith in Christ.

May the few mormons God calls be brave and repent and escape the judgement.

I can imagine some mormons are caught in a trap,,to leave the church, they lose jobs, home.

I pray God grants these few faithful protection

[gobbly1337]

@Luciferminusone ooooo! and put in a walkway fountain, and have it go off at times in the winter! (yes, this happened to me, it was f'n cold!)

[Luciferminusone]

Open air to the 28F and blowing snow r and having to hire people to clear the snow so people can actually access the stores during winter! What a SMART idea!

When the REALLY cold back to back winters kick back you guys are going to regret it big time!

This cold winter there is just a small sample of what's going to be common the next few decades.

[Relesy]

Aww I remember Crossroads.

[silentk1987]

Local stores suck, they charge a shit load of money for simple things, chains offer things cheap.

[Kamichaos2121]

@kittywaymo WOW, well arn"t you just a prime stereotype!

[Kamichaos2121]

@Skittles658 city creek is crap dude its not going to have anything for non-mormons

[Kamichaos2121]

fuck the gateway and its retarded out door mall. the last thing i want to do in the winter is walk around outside. Stupid gateway cross roads was awesome because it was so empty

[NYKID10014]

Utah always does everything ass backwards. If those 2 downtown malls were built with decent architecture & design they wouldn't have ever had to bulldoze them and build another tacky mall with hideous murals. The 2 malls didn't even have their entrances line up on Main Street. The insides were dated when they opened. Even the Trax they built for the Olympics doesn't even go to the airport. What a joke.