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Raising a family in downtown Salt Lake City is an adventure, but shouldn't be treated like a pipe dream.
In her 2024 State of the City address, Mayor Erin Mendenhall made a statement that was music to my ears: "Downtown is for families."
In her 2024 State of the City address, Mayor Erin Mendenhall made a statement that was music to my ears: "Downtown is for families." That simple statement embodied a core theme of her address, acknowledging that—despite the recent explosion in development and investment in our urban core—the number of families living downtown remains relatively small and that needs to change.
And depending on who you spoke to afterward, this was either the absolute right focus or an impractical pipe dream.
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