I have one word to describe Jordan Landing. It's a little blue to say here, but I'll say it rhymes with "dumpster truck".
Indoor mall, outdoor mall, mixed-use malls and development, there's none less user-friendly than Jordan Landing.
See, The Crossroads of Taylorsville is a similar in its station-to-station design, but they have SIGNAGE. Here, you mostly have to get out your Google Maps or feel your way around. I wouldn't want to freeze my tookus off in either one during the Christmas shopping season (which I did on this day), but at least I know where I'm going at the Crossroads. I'm S.O.L. at Jordan Landing.
The bigger problem is its layout for drivers ... it's one big left turn. I spent 3-4 minutes waiting to make on left turn because there was so much traffic (it was Saturday). THEY NEED MORE STOPLIGHTS. This four-way-stop thing is a mess. I know it's hard to fix something that was created by some planner 18 years ago, but man, it's frustrating.
And the shops skew heavily toward women ... specifically women's clothes. I know there's usually more for the ladies at any mall, but this is a pretty big discrepancy. I get the need for having women's stores ... or having a store with more women's clothes with men, but Jordan Landing has WAY to many women's-only stores ... and women's stores that you don't know ONLY have women's clothes until you're 2 feet deep in pink (I'm talking to you, Aeropostale!)
The restaurant selection is pretty good (with Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse being their best), although stay away from Applebee's, 'Bout Time, Chili's, Costa Vida, and Johnny Carino's (which has sadly dropped off in recent years).
So, basically, you'll only find me eating here. In my opinion, Jordan Landing is the worst mall development in the Salt Lake Valley. read more