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Originally Posted by ajiuO
The City Creek Center Skybridge has not hurt Main Street at all. There are more people walking along that portion of Main Street now then when the two malls were there. I honestly think that under good weather conditions just as many, if not more people cross the street. There tends to be more foot traffic on the west side of Main probably because that side of the street has about 3 stores only accessible from Main... that’s the real key.
I like the skybridge. I don’t think we need them everywhere but they can work.
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I couldn't agree with you more! The fact that there's a TRAX station almost directly underneath the skybridge I think counteracts, if not totally eliminates, any negative effect the skybridge may have had. I think it was a good design decision.
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Originally Posted by jubguy3
That's because citycreek still brought tons of people to main street in what was formerly a dead area... but it still kept a ton of these new people off of main street and on the skybridge.
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I just don't think it's true.
Main Street was a ghost town when the malls were there compared to how it is now, and that includes up and down a block either way. Main Street seems so much livelier, and there's hardly an empty storefront to be found in that stretch.
And especially since a lot of visitors to City Creek are from out of town, a lot of people that visit CCC take TRAX or walk there from nearby hotels, which means that foot traffic is on the streets around it as well, not just in the mall. Add in the booming amount of residential going into surrounding neighborhoods, and Main Street is in better shape than it's been in 20+ years.
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Originally Posted by Liberty Wellsian
That's an apples and oranges comparison. Main has Trax, one lane of traffic in each direction, wide sidewalks, tall historic buildings, etc. It would be better to compare the walking experience of those 4 blocks of Main to each other. So 1 being the best and 4 being the worst how would you rank them?
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I don't know which 4 blocks you're talking about. Do you mean each block is Main Street between 100 S and South Temple, 200S/100S, etc?
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Originally Posted by i-215
Hate to play Devil's Advocate here, but I must ask:
With Utah screwing up and losing the Outdoor Retailer's Convention, is there really a need to build the Convention Center Hotel anymore?
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Definitely. Have you ever seen how many major essential oils conventions we have? They bring in visitors from all over, especially Asia. Doterra brought about 35,000 iirc. Not to mention we would have little to no hope of attracting another major trade show or other major conventions like that without it.