, downtown Salt Lake City’s pedestrian-only block party, is set to return this weekend — a few months later in the year than in the program’s first three years.
While turning Main Street into a walkable promenade has been limited to a few weekends in the summer — and now fall — efforts are underway to consider closing the street to vehiclesCity officials said Open Streets, which started in 2020, has drawn some 30,000 to 40,000 visitors each weekend in the past three years.
Open Streets, Mendenhall said at a news conference Wednesday, “has been a key part of our reported best recovery in the nation for a city, for people coming back into the city. … We have 139% more people coming into [downtown] Salt Lake than we did in 2019.”are planning a wide range of activities on Main — including block parties, a mini-golf course, a silent disco in shipping containers, a pop-up park with yoga, murals, and lots of live music.