SALT LAKE CITY The fight over having residents vote on the historic status of a pair of downtown Salt Lake City theaters is now headed to court.
The leaders of a group seeking to preserve the two landmarks filed a lawsuit against the city after they were told both of their efforts to put an initiative asking residents to vote on providing historic status for the structures didn t qualify for the November election.
Casey McDonough and Michael Valentine, both from Salt Lake City and lead members of the group Save the Pantages Theatre, filed the lawsuit in 3rd District Court on Friday. It lists Salt Lake City recorder Cindy Lou Trishman, Salt Lake City attorney Katherine Lewis, and the city as respondents of the lawsuit.
SALT LAKE CITY The fight over having residents vote on the historic status of a pair of downtown Salt Lake City theaters is now headed to court.
The leaders of a group seeking to preserve the two landmarks filed a lawsuit against the city after they were told both of their efforts to put an initiative asking residents to vote on providing historic status for the structures didn t qualify for the November election.
Casey McDonough and Michael Valentine, both from Salt Lake City and lead members of the group Save the Pantages Theatre, filed the lawsuit in 3rd District Court on Friday. It lists Salt Lake City recorder Cindy Lou Trishman, Salt Lake City attorney Katherine Lewis, and the city as respondents of the lawsuit.
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For more than 100 years, the Utah Pantages Theatre has stood on Salt Lake City’s 100 South block of Main Street no longer a city block, but a chopping block for the Utah Theatre and neighboring local businesses.
This particular axe will likely take the form of a deal between the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City, which owns the land, The Hines Group and The LaSalle Group. On the theater’s resting place, the developers propose building a 31-story glass monolith another tower of high-rise apartments which would cannibalize some of the theater’s historic remains for its design as a way of preserving them.