After a monthslong attempt to prevent development at the Redwood Drive-In in West Valley City, vendors of a swap meet that has called the property home for decades say goodbye.
Vendors at the Redwood Swap Meet box their wares and say their goodbyes ahead of the market’s final weekend.Sundays are typically the busiest day here, and vendors continue to brave the cold to sell what they can, while they can. It’s quiet, though, aside from a few booths that sell speakers and are playing music from them.
Instead, this place, long held as a cultural landmark and commerce hub for many, will simply fade away. Many of the stalls have already shuttered. All sales are final. Wais has begun packing up his inventory at the Redwood Swap Meet, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024., who goes only by his first name, has been one of hundreds to set up shop here. In the waning days of the market, he’s trying to get rid of as much stock as he can, slashing prices because he can’t afford to keep boxes of clothing.
After everything, Gutierrez, who has become a figurehead in this community, said he feels “very disappointed” — particularly with the elected officials of West Valley City because they not only “voted against us for the rezoning,” but have “not reached back to us” about possible places for the market to go.Vendors, Gutierrez said, feel they “haven’t been listened to by City Council or any political figure.
“With that said,” Johnson’s statement continued, “we do not know of any available land that fits the expectations and needs of the swap meet organization.”, said he is working on finding a new place for the market to reconvene. He said there have been discussions with different venues like a Salt Lake Community College campus and the Utah State Fairpark.“The magnitude of this, which is 500 vendors,” he said, “is a huge responsibility, even for any event to help us out.
Karen Lang Cristian Gutierrez West Valley City
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