According to plans released October 3, 2006, downtown Salt Lake City is about to turn back the clock – and at the same time, vault into the future. Instead of massive blocks just south of Temple Square, it is proposed that a new upscale City Creek Center be built, complete with the historic streets, buried decades ago by the ZCMI and Crossroads Mall. Richards Street, Regent Street and Social Hall Avenue will again take their place in downtown Salt Lake City. The Key Bank Tower will come down, as well as many historic buildings.
“The conceptual drawings show an unrecognizable Main Street, with open-air pedestrian paths through the two mall blocks, fountains, a glass-roof arcade over some of the project and six acres of green space. Water would flow through the two blocks in a series of ponds, falls and a streambed; there would be a 47-foot drop in the water from the current ZCMI Center block to Crossroads Plaza.”
