With plans for a new downtown park, city moves closer to giving derelict Utah Theater to developers for demolition

Undeterred, supporters with Save the Pantages seek a public vote to declare the historic Main Street property a landmark and propose to buy and restore it.

(Salt Lake City, via Modern Out West) Main auditorium and to-be-salvaged chandelier. Before demolition, the once-majestic Utah Theater on Salt Lake City’s Main Street — a dilapidated and vacant 103-year-old performing arts hall once known as Pantages Theater — is being documented in a vast digital archive, hosted by J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah.

With plans for a new downtown park, city moves closer to giving derelict Utah Theater to developers for demolition

Undeterred, supporters with Save the Pantages seek a public vote to declare the historic Main Street property a landmark and propose to buy and restore it.

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