Mayor Michael Valentine For Salt Lake City 2023

Описание: "The Story of the Historic Utah Pantages Theater - Rampant lies, fraud, and corruption in Salt Lake City"

Utah Stories is doing the real journalism work that has been missing in Utah for the better part of half a decade! They are telling the stories and doing the investigative work that the Salt Lake Tribune
refuses to do as they continue to protect Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall from accountability.

Since 2016 when these exclusive agreements were put into place, Salt Lake City, Hines, and Joel LaSalle have done everything they can to steal
the Historic Utah Pantages Theater from the public in a backroom $0 deal. They lied about every single aspect of this deal for years to the public!

They signed exclusive agreements holding the Pantages hostage

They inflated the restoration costs by $40 million dollars

They canceled public tours and surveys with the Downtown Alliance and Preservation Utah in 2018

They canceled updated more accurate seismic estimates in 2019

They claimed the theater was too far gone to be restored even though it had no fire/mold/water damage and national historic theater experts all said the Pantages was in amazing condition for being 104 years old

Erin Mendenhall took campaign bribes from Joel LaSalle while this deal was being negotiated

They violated both Utah and Salt Lake City historic laws to shove this deal through even though the entire community was against it

RDA Director Danny Walz has been lying about the historic nature of the Pantages since 2018, lying about the fact the Pantages was eligible for the National Registry and could receive millions in historic tax credits for restoration

They kept this from the public because it would have saved the theater and made the Pantages a Salt Lake City Landmark bringing protection from demolition

Danny Walz is a city employee and is on video lying to sitting City Councilmembers about these facts

This is not just a story about one theater but about how Erin Mendenhall usurped her power, protects Danny Walz, broke her oath of office, and committed some of the most egregious corruption in Utah history to give millions in public property to one of the biggest real estate companies in the world

We will have justice ❤️