Mother Who Knows
Date: December 02, 2017 02:47AM
My family and I also boycott the mall. Imagine, tearing down an entire city, and all the nostalgia, memories, and character that was once Downtown SLC, and replacing it with a standardized, cookie-cutter mall.
Like, tearing down a charming Ivy League University campus, and replacing it with buildings that are on the BYU campus.
No charm. No fun. We prefer Gateway. The Gap, Eddie Bauer. I miss the boutique stores in California, where we would walk in the door, and love everything in the whole store. Now, I can search all the departments of a huge store, and not find one thing I like, and very little in my size. If I want a nice basic black dress, I go into the store to try it on--the store might have the dress in bright magenta or avocado green in my size--and then I go home and order it online in black, in the size that fits. The only store I've ever walked out of, carrying actual clothes, is Talbot's. There used to be one in Trolley Square.
Who are these people who afford dry-clean-only clothes? They must never be around children or grandchildren or pets. They can't wear any of those "sport clothes" for actual sports, or gardening, or anything like that. The prices are aimed at business moguls and their wives, or movie stars, or celebrities, or apostles and their wives. Maybe the people who live in the million-dollar condos with temple views can afford the mall.
BTW, where is all the "low-income housing" that GBH promised on that site?