Salt Lake City: Livability in the 21st Century

efined urban lifestyle with doorstep access to shopping,
dining, and Salt Lake’s best culture and entertainment
venues. A new full service Harmons grocery store makes it
easy to call downtown home.
Owned and operated by Taubman Centers, Inc., and
anchored by Nordstrom and Macy’s, City Creek Center is the
project’s retail centerpiece with more than 100 stores and
restaurants and 2,000 employees. Landscaped walkways
set amidst splashing waterfalls, tranquil ponds, a sparkling
creek and restful plazas blend to create a vibrant, welcoming
place to shop, eat and visit.
Spanning nearly 140 feet over Main Street, a pedestrian
sky bridge connects retail gallerias where shoppers enjoy
climate-controlled comfort under a retractable glass roof.
A first in American shopping centers, the sixty-foot roof
requires just minutes to open or close. Its innovative design,
engineering and fabrication earned national recognition
in 2013 from the American Institute of Steel Construction.
The project takes its name from City Creek, the snow-fed
stream that sustained early settlers when they first arrived
in the arid Salt Lake Valley in 1847. On Main Street, the
restored cast-iron façade of Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile
Institution (ZCMI) reminds shoppers and visitors of the
city’s pioneering heritage. The first elements of the intricate
façade were installed in 1876. Over the years, the signature
Main Street face of the ZCMI store became a symbol
of industry, commerce and progress and was listed on
the National Register of Historic Places. Its painstaking
restoration and adaptation as an entrance to Macy’s earned
a 2013 Heritage Award from the Utah Heritage Foundation.
On March 22, 2012, Church leaders joined retail executives
and city and state government officials at City Creek’s
grand opening. They praised the project’s “beautifully
landscaped walkways and gathering places, innovative yet
timeless architecture, cascading waterfalls, choreographed
fountains, and meandering creek.”
After nearly ten years of planning and construction and
seven million hours of labor, City Creek is fulfilling President
Hinckley’s vision of renewed vitality at the head of Main
Street bringing increased vigor throughout Utah’s capital city.
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Opposite, top: City Creek at the peak of construction.
Opposite, bottom: Connected by a skybridge spanning Main Street,
the retail gallerias feature a fully retractable roof—the first in an American
shopping center.
Top, left: City Creek Center is the retail centerpiece of the mixed-use project.
Top, right: Courses of water ripple, flow, and fall over City Creek’s landscape.
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