Tony Semerad—>By TONY SEMERAD | The Salt Lake Tribune
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sisters l-r Katie Marler and Mindee Heaps capture a quick selfie on the skybridge of City Creek. Unveiled in 2012, City Creek combines more than 100 stores, offices and high-end residences into what developers and planners call «mixed use.» The $1.5 billion-plus, 20-acre complex is accented with fountains, a synthetic creek, a retractable glass roof and a pedestrian skywalk over Main Street.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sisters l-r Katie Marler and Mindee Heaps capture a quick selfie on the skybridge of City Creek. Unveiled in 2012, City Creek combines more than 100 stores, offices and high-end residences into what developers and planners call «mixed use.» The $1.5 billion-plus, 20-acre complex is accented with fountains, a synthetic creek, a retractable glass roof and a pedestrian skywalk over Main Street.
Retail » LDS Church’s $1.5 billion-plus development is designed to boost shopping and downtown for decades to come.
Ten years ago, LDS Church leaders reportedly wanted the shopping center they were about to build in their own front yard to be both world class and enduring.
City Creek Center needed a style and scale suited to occupying two high-profile Salt Lake City blocks next to the faith’s global headquarters, while helping to revitalize a fading downtown around it.
«I heard the term ‘world class’ at least a million times,» recalled adviser Ronald Pastore, a retail consultant with Boston-based AEW Capital Management.
The historic undertaking also had to yield a shopping center built to last in a retail industry evolving so rapidly with technology that most malls can’t go 10 years without overhauls.
