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Not just downtown SLC, but downtown Ogden. Both downtown areas have suffered since ZCMI closed.
ZCMI stores were wonderful places, from their great lunch rooms to their bakery goods and (downtown) the little grocery store. Their merchandising was great, there was something for everyone, the quality was high, and it was not "cookie cutter" stuff. Except for those wonderful cookies. The ZCMI bakery is gone (and now there's no wonderful raisin or date-filled cookies). There's no Tiffin rooms.
I can understand the Mormons (I'm not one) wanting to get out of the retail business, but WHY couldn't someone else have bought these VERY SUCCESSFUL stores and kept them as they were?
Now, there's Macy's. Everywhere you go. All the same. NOT nearly as nice. Nothing distinctive of the hometown, or the area.
It's too late now. We're going to get a another downtown area with circus-like architecture and dull chain stores (mimicking every strip mall in the world). At least I won't mind if it's closed on Sunday, because I'll probably never shop there.
People settled the west, where there were streams coming out of the mountains. It's all about the water, the history, and yes ALL OF US.
Utah Kris
Third-generation Gentile