SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 A fifth technology family-owned clothes retailer that has been a Salt Lake Metropolis staple for over a century is shifting to a brand new location within the Salt Lake Valley after its downtown retailer was decided to be too broken by a 2020 earthquake to be repaired and will likely be torn down.<\/p>\n
After weeks of privately letting clients know in regards to the impending transfer, UWM Males’s Store \u2014 beforehand often known as Utah Woolen Mills \u2014 formally introduced this week that it plans to maneuver. Indicators selling a “closing sale” at the moment are posted on the home windows of its location at 59 W. South Temple.<\/p>\n
UWM plans to open a brand new retailer on the nook of 6100 South and State State in Murray, close to Trend Place Mall, that may open on Might 6, whereas its previous location will likely be phased out within the coming weeks. A farewell social gathering is slated for Might 2 to have a good time the enterprise, in accordance with B.J. Stringham, the enterprise’s president.<\/p>\n
“It is a actually massive transfer for us,” he mentioned. “We wish to shut this chapter with excessive hopes for the long run \u2014 and we’re excited for the long run.”<\/p>\n
Property Reserve Inc., which owns the eight-story constructing, instructed KSL.com that the property \u2014 sandwiched between Metropolis Creek Middle and Temple Sq. \u2014 will likely be torn down later this yr over its seismic dangers.<\/p>\n
Father and son Henry and Briant Stringham based Utah Woolen Mills in 1905, providing woolen items and males’s clothes from a base in downtown Salt Lake Metropolis. The corporate has remained within the household and throughout the similar block ever since, shifting to its present location within the late ’70s as building of the Crossroads Plaza consumed the unique constructing.<\/p>\n
The second location was spared when Metropolis Creek Middle building started within the 2000s, as crews constructed across the retailer to finish the mall over a decade in the past.<\/p>\n Building was only one problem alongside the way in which. In a public letter about the impending move<\/a>, the Stringham household pointed to “numerous ups and downs” over the previous 119 years. The household enterprise weathered two world pandemics, two world wars, the Nice Despair and a number of recessions. Stringham mentioned the enterprise has had a few of its finest gross sales years ever since 2022.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake that rattled the Salt Lake Valley in 2020 proved to be the most important impediment \u2014 at the very least when it comes to the corporate’s time in Salt Lake Metropolis. A structural engineering agency surveyed the constructing and recognized “seismic dangers” after the earthquake, in accordance with Dale Payments, a spokesman for Property Reserve.<\/p>\n In an announcement to KSL.com, Payments defined that the mandatory repairs and seismic upgrades have been decided to be “value prohibitive,” so the corporate determined to tear down the constructing. By the purpose that call was made, UWM was the property’s final remaining tenant as Deseret E-book \u2014 the constructing’s main tenant \u2014 had moved out in 2019.<\/p>\n![\"Men's](\"https:\/\/img.ksl.com\/slc\/2983\/298371\/29837103.jpeg?filter=kslv2\/inline_sm\")
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