Downtown Theme Park

A friend of mine frequently says Utahns are quick to settle. We settle for over salted chain restaurant food, common chain store fashions and with few exceptions we settle for uninspiring architecture. No case demonstrates the later more than the City Creek Center development. Certainly the LDS Church has the right to develop their property as they see fit and yes it will be nice to get something developed downtown but you would think a religion that professes to be divinely inspired would choose a more inspired design. San Antonio has the Riverwalk, we’ll have a fake City Creek. Portland has a large thriving downtown and we’re about to repeat the mistake we made 30 years ago and limit ours to a few city blocks. Lehi gets Frank Gehry and Salt Lake gets Taubman Partners. If we’re going to make Salt Lake a chain store theme park, let’s not settle again. We should at least get a roller coaster to go with our Futureland sky bridge.