Tejeda's Market in the Glendale neighborhood of Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. The store is now closed, and the site is awaiting redevelopment.The shell of Tejeda’s Market is all that remains of the once popular neighborhood shop within walking distance for Glendale residents.Neighbors saw Tejeda’s lights turn off and a chain enclose its parking lot. They then waited to see crews break ground on the new residential development.
“We have secured the buildings after multiple break-ins and subsequent efforts to weld doors shut,” Pierre Langue, a principal at Axis Architects, wrote in an email. “We also installed steel bollards to restrict vehicular access to authorized vehicles only to prevent people from driving to the back of the building and dumping trash.”
“I hope,” Bitton said, “that the yearlong extension doesn’t mean that we’re just going to have an empty building sitting there, getting beaten up and torn to pieces and kind of falling into disrepair.” Rendering of the Glendale Townhomes project. The modern buildings would feature facades of brick, wood siding, glass and stucco.
As developers set their sights on transforming other commercial establishments into housing, the community is torn about the future.