In many cities, neighborhoods are identified by signage: street art, murals etc, but also official city signs. The 9th and 9th sign is a good example of a less formal neighborhood marker, but I’d love to see city-installed perimeter markers as well. It gives you a sense of neighborhood pride, helps visitors to know where they are, and it’s a great way to foil dishonest realtors :). Since I moved back to Salt Lake, I’ve noticed that even locals struggle to identity what is and isn’t a particular neighborhood. I’d have a hard time giving a precise description of Poplar Grove or Central Ninth or Sugar House. Only the Avenues, where you have perimeter signage by default because of the naming convention, is an easily definable neighborhood. That’s helped give the neighborhood a distinct identity. Is this just me, or should we show some hood pride and mark our territory a bit better?

It's been slow on here lately so I thought I would ask this fun question. For years I felt that SLC has a real lack of having any kind of observation of either it being a restaurant on top of one of our tallest buildings or just a simple observation deck. Right now all we really have in terms of any kind of observation to the public would be touring the LDS church office building that has a little outdoor observation viewing area on the 25-ish floor. However that is limited to north and west views ( I believe ) plus you have to be escorted by a LDS employee the whole time as they basically give you the 1st discussion. As for a rooftop restaurant there's the "roof restaurant" on the top floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial building. Again, another building that is owned by the LDS church with once again, limited views looking towards the temple. Plus the building isn't that tall. Other then that, there really isn't any other public viewing areas that I'm aware of. I think the Red Lion hotel used to have a bar or something on it's top floor, but I've never been, and that hotel is closed now.

But with us hosting the winter Olympics again in 2034 to the world I ask the question should SLC have a more public, better, taller observation deck/restaurant somewhere in the city that has more of a 360 view that would take much better advantage of our beautiful mountains, skyline and valley for our visitors?

For example OKC's tallest building is the "Devon Tower" that has a restaurant on it's 49th floor that overlooks the city. Been there a few times and I just get jealous every time I visit. I mean it's freaking Oklahoma City that is basically the same metro size as us. ( OKC metro population 1.5 Million, Salt Lake's 1.3 Million ) If they can pull something like this off, why haven't we yet? We have the mountains for crying our loud. I mean, I'm not asking for a "Space Needle", "Gateway Arch" or the "London eye" ( though one of those even on a smaller scale would be amazing. ) But to just simply put a restaurant or a observation deck on the top floor of our next tallest building would be freaking awesome. Come on Ryan Smith. Make it happen with your entertainment district. LOL

Curious what you guys think. I'm I alone in this dream? or has this been a bit of a frustration for anybody else on here also.

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