Yet while the owners and developers of City Creek were getting all the attention last year for their

The multimillion-dollar, 5,000-square-foot fountain features six fine-art bronze statues, created by sculptor Brian Keith that were dedicated Friday, June 15, 2012 in Farmington. The Station Park shopping center in Farmington unveiled a world-class show fountain with choreographed lights, music, color and 30-60-foot high dancing water.
Once a week, Jazmin Gonzalez of Brigham City makes the one-hour cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo trek south just to go to her favorite shopping mall in Salt Lake City. That’s how much she adores the new City Creek Center nestled between 100 and 200 South on Main Street.
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Unique features A retractable glass roof which is the first for such a mall in the country, a creek that runs 1,200 feet through the property, choreographed fire fountains, and a pedestrian skybridge over Main Street.
cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo Gonzalez could easily go to a number of malls that are much closer to her, but her willingness to keep driving to City Creek just demonstrates the love and loyalty that some shoppers have for their favorite malls.
Yet while the owners and developers of City Creek were getting all the attention last year for their luxurious one-of-a-kind cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo open-air shopping center — partly cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo due to its partnership with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns the property it sits on — a similarly ambitious open-air mall already was in the works just 30 minutes north of there in Farmington.
Station Park, a sprawling 62-acre center just west of the Lagoon amusement park, is nearly three times the size of City Creek in area, but it never attracted the same pomp and circumstance as City Creek did when the latter opened its doors in the spring of 2012. Station Park — which is still under construction and has three-quarters of its occupancy filled by retailers cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo so far (leases for 93 percent of the mall have been signed) — first opened in July 2011 and is expected to be completed cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo by fall of next year.
It may not have a gigantic retractable roof, a winding 1,200-foot creek running through its property, or the state’s cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo first Tiffany’s jewelry store like City Creek has, but Station Park does have some of the same high-end amenities as City Creek, such as a multi-million-dollar computerized fountain and a much sought-after cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo Apple Store.
Both malls also have plans for mixed-use properties. City Creek now has about 800 condominiums as well as office space on the property while Station Park will have a 125-room hotel by the end of next year and 125,000 square-feet of office space.
Station Park also can boast some important features that City Creek doesn’t have — namely, state-of-the-art movie theaters through Cinemark, a martini bar, and most noticeably, the fact that it’s open on Sundays. Because of its partnership with the Mormon Church, City Creek’s retail stores are closed on Sundays while the restaurants remain open.
Open-air malls have been growing in popularity, said Fred Bruning, CEO of El Secondo, Calif.-based CenterCal Properties, cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo which owns and operates Station Park, partly because they can offer new entertainment options enclosed malls can’t. They also can be less expensive to operate with lower utility costs in heating and air conditioning.
There are at least 685 "super-regional malls" that offer anchor stores, entertainment options, cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo and range from 60 to 120 acres (though it’s uncertain how many are open-air), according to the International Council of Shopping Centers. Open-air malls have become a popular shopping option because they offer a wider variety of amenities, said the council’s industry research director, Jean Lambert.
"They have to offer something different — more restaurants, all the entertainment, the retailers are more integrated with online, the food courts are improving," he said. "The offerings are different from what they were 10 years ago."
While both Station Park and City Creek are the state’s newest open-air malls with similar features, they are very different, too. City Creek Center is an urban mall with unique high-priced cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo stores such as Tiffany’s and Porsche cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo Design, while Station Park is situated in property next to tracts of homes and open real estate.
Bruning likens City Creek to a showpiece for the world, while his mall is a showpiece for the community. He considers Station Park a more quaint shopping experience, as if you’re "in the middle of a Hallmark holiday postcard."
"It’s a feeling of grandeur with City Creek," he said. "But we wanted cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo to make it [Station Park] a feeling of community, a feeling where customers feel like this is their new living room or city park."
One of those projects that’s clearly in City Creek’s sights is The Gateway next to Energy Solutions Arena, which has been heavily affected by City Creek. Since it opened, City Creek has wooed more than a dozen retailers, including the valuable Apple Store, away from the Gateway. As a result, the Gateway’s taxable sales for the last nine months of 2012 were $40 million less than the same period the year before.
While it still might be too early to tell for Station Park since nearly half of the mall is still under construction, City Creek has so far been a resounding success. In its first nine months, the mall generated cruising the anime city an otaku guide to neo tokyo $200 million taxable sales, according to data from the Utah State Tax Commission. And so far this year, sales will reach record numbers, according to Jason Mathis, executive director of Salt Lake City’s Downtown Alliance.
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