Comments on: Fashion Place Mall; Murray, Utah

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:33:49 +0000

@Prange Way, I always wondered where they recruited these people from… They all seemed to have the same accent in every mall I have ever been to. I have gotten tired of saying “no thanks” that I just down right ignore them now as I walk past as quick as possible..lol.

By: Prange Way

Prange Way — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:22:25 +0000

@Chad E Willoughby, I wouldn’t castigate all people from Israel due to these people. However, these people do suck. A lot. Interestingly, many of them are here on tourist visas and not work visas, and are culled in their home countries at kiosk job fairs. I find them terribly annoying and aggressive too, and sort of wish the INS would get involved.

By: Chad E Willoughby

Chad E Willoughby — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:58:38 +0000

A few months ago, while walking to the Dillard’s department store, I was harassed by a man and a woman from Israel selling their worthless “Dead sea soap”, hand and facial products. The man and woman were verbally abusive and spoke to me in a manner that was offensive and degrading. Although I filed a complaint at the mall management office, nothing was done. The workers in this mall (from Israel) are abusive, cruel, mindless and rude. these people make shopping at Fashion Place Mall an unkind,awful, miserable and unpleasant experience. I WILL NEVER RETURN TO FASHION PLACE MALL. GO HOME ISRAEL, YOU’RE NOT WELCOME HERE.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:44:34 +0000

I think Auerbach’s was where the old nordstrom was. It will be a shame when they tear down dillards expandtion, I have always loved the exterior of dillards/weinstocks/the broadway.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:43:02 +0000

Fashion Place Mall opened in 1972, and I arrived in Utah that year for college. I went to Fashion Place Mall all the time from 1972 to 1976, and it was easily the best mall in the area during those years, which means that it was the best mall in the state and maybe in the entire region (Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah). One of the original anchor stores was Auerbach’s–nobody has mentioned that. I assume it’s long gone. I believe it was the western anchor of the mall.

Some of the other big malls in the Salt Lake valley back then were Cottonwood Mall, Valley Fair Mall (on the less fashionable west side), and Trolley Square (which was considered really innovative at the time). University Mall (Orem) opened around 1974, and I know that it’s still around and thriving.

By: Jenster

Jenster — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:31:56 +0000

Ok, so I grew up going to Fashion Place Mall and I vividly remember climbing on this huge, yellow, brick “sculpture” type thing in the middle (?) of the mall. I guess sculpture isn’t really a good word for what it was, as people could sit on the edges of it. It was very 70’stastic! Does anyone else remember this thing?

By: Smokedaddy

Smokedaddy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:55:51 +0000

The Fashion Place Mall was briefly notorious when a University of Utah student named Ted Bundy left one of his victims in a dumpster there.

With the ongoing billion-dollars and years-long metamorphosis of ZCMI and Crossroads into City Creek Center, Fashion Place has attracted a lot of traffic from areas that used to be serviced by the downtown malls. The planned expansion is a good thing, as the area has grown more upscale. Salt Lake City can expand only to the south, and the mall’s location is becoming ever more central.

Even though I’m in the Avenues, I generally avoid the Gateway and head down to Fashion Place in Murray when I need to visit a mall; it’s less hassle, parking is easy, and I can usually find what I’m after.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:22:53 +0000

Cool site!

I was just at the Fashion Place mall for the first time in nearly ten years, and I noticed a PILE of changes. One thing I was able to do was Go into the old nordstrom building during the first day of the fixture liquidation sale. I got LOTS of pictures, so feel freeo to contact me if you want to see them.

One thing that was really cool was the weather marks showing the evidence of the old logo now that the new sign had been removed.

I had not realised how dated that store was until seeing it with all the merchandise removed. but very cool to see.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:14:53 +0000

Today(in 2009) the new Nordstroms is finnaly done, I think Macy’s might buy the old Nordstroms remodel it and vacate their cottonwood location Even though I live closer to their cotonwood location it is pretty small and I wouldn’t be suprised if it closed down, I know they are keeping the coulumbs on the outside of the mall and I think they are keeping the skylights or at least the ones in the food court

By: Bree

Bree — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:21:00 +0000

We always drove to the Salt Lake City area from southern Idaho to get some real shopping in. Fashion Place was an awesome mall second only to the giant Crossroads Mall in Salt Lake proper, which was a thriving mall which was curiously repurposed recently. Neat to see a mall I’ve actually visited on this site!