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Salt Lake City’s downtown Open Streets fest a big hit

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:11:49 MDT

Salt Lake City’s downtown Open Streets fest a big hit

By Christopher Smart | The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 5, 2013 05:11PM MDT

They came on skateboards, push scooters, bicycles and roller skates. Some even walked. Hundreds of smiling faces brought a new kind of life to downtown’s 300 South on Saturday as Salt Lake City kicked off its first Open Streets festival on a picture-perfect spring day. Broadway, as it is also called, was closed to auto traffic from 200 East to 600 West from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. According to a statement from City Hall, “It is part of a national movement to temporarily open selected streets as pu...

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Mini tower

Sat, 04 May 2013 01:01:03 MDT

Mini tower

Updated May 4, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Re “Boyer to build office tower in downtown Salt Lake City” (Tribune, April 27): Only in Salt Lake City would a seven-story office building be called a “tower.” Michael Petersen Holladay