America’s most successful downtown?

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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And the ecological crisis that threatens everything. Today, Explained’s Miles Bryan heads to Salt Lake City. This episode was reported and produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Serena Solin and Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously, on Today Explained.
0:03.0	Okay, this is Doomloop.
0:05.0	It's sort of a death spiral for cities.
0:07.0	Property values will fall further, taxes will have to rise further, government spending will have to fall further,
0:12.0	more people will leave, and so forth and so forth.
0:14.0	We've talked a lot about the Doomloop,
0:17.0	threatening American downtown's post-pandemic bleak stuff.
0:21.0	But today's explain producer and reporter, Miles Bryan, is here with some good news on this subject.
0:27.0	Yeah, I'm here today to bring you a downtown that's become near and dear to my heart.
0:31.0	Which is it Miles? Is it Portland, Maine? Is it Portland, Oregon? Is it Miami, Florida?
0:36.0	It is.
0:38.0	Salt Lake City.
0:41.0	In Utah?
0:42.0	Mm-hmm.
0:43.0	Salt Lake's downtown isn't just recovering from the pandemic. It's thriving.
0:48.0	I want to tell you about it because it's doing nearly everything a downtown should be doing right now.
0:54.0	And because there's one thing that might blow it all up.
1:02.0	Support for this show comes from Delta Airlines.
1:05.0	No one sees the world quite like an airline.
1:08.0	But the world seen below is changing.
1:10.0	Fast.
1:11.0	That's why Delta Airlines is committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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