(Renderings courtesy of Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency) Faced with prohibitive costs of completely renovating Utah Theater, Salt Lake City officials have moved to sell the Main Street site instead for redevelopment as a residential skyscraper with at least 300 new apartments, a public green space, parking structure and reuse of key elements from the historic theater. A view from Main Street of the project's proposed mid-block walkway.
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