Posted on 03/22/2012 6:29:38 AM PDT by Utah Binger
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is attempting to remake downtown Salt Lake City by opening the shopping mall portion of a $2 billion mixed-use space that spans two city blocks and features a meandering creek and retractable glass roofs.
Church partner and retail operator Taubman Centers Inc. expects 50,000 visitors today, when City Creek Center's nearly 90 stores open.
City Creek Center has outdoor walkways, plazas, fireplaces and metal sculptures. Waterfalls, fountains and a trout pond are part of the village-like development, which includes condominiums and is joined by a pedestrian bridge over Main Street.
The residential towers were built by City Creek Reserve Inc., a for-profit firm owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church is a multibillion-dollar organization with business and real estate holdings.
The church paid for City Creek Center with cash and says no member tithing was used. For the most part, it will be like other shopping malls, except that the stores close on Sundays -- the church wanted the Sabbath for its nearby Temple Square.
It will be operated like Taubman Centers' other upscale malls in Los Angeles and Denver, said Robert Taubman, chairman, president and CEO of the Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based company. Two of the restaurants at the Salt Lake City mall will serve liquor, but there are no bars. Its anchors are Macy's and Nordstrom, with other stores such as Tiffany & Co. and the Swedish fashion chain H&M.
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Binger Ping
The LDS is fast becoming an arm of La Raza. They are expanding their efforts to promote amnesty for illegal aliens in state after state. It is time to boycott all of their businesses and interests nationwide until they relent.
Sounds like it would bring more customers downtown.
Just an FYI
Bingo!
Mall of the gods...
That’s funny!
Didn’t know if this was religion or business. Please assign accordingly.
Only thing missing is a two story statute of Joey Smith sitting on a throne like Zeus at Olympia, with a bag of money in his hand and all his wives thronging at his feet...
And now we have every non-Mormon business in there giving $ to the Mormon church!
So keep that in mind: Make a list of the corporations in there...and realize they are financially in league with a church that calls all other churches "apostates!"
Hey, I have a plan. Let’s meet there for drinks - That’ll teach them.
Priesthood at Tiffany’s
The best we will get is a cuppa Postum.
Ah, ....shoot!
Guarantee this will happen.
Oh Pale Ale
(The Mormon version of Hallelujah)
No bars.....I’m guessing there are no coffee shops, either? Coffee is eeeeevil!
It’s Joey Smith, Inc.
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