There was a high-flying homecoming Monday at Trolley Square as a giant crane lifted a century-old streetcar into the air and then glided it to its rightful place outside the Salt Lake City shopping center.
Believed to be one of the city’s oldest electric streetcars, it was placed on the north plaza, near Pottery Barn, where it will undergo renovations and then ultimately be home to a new mall tenant, said Taymour B. Semnani, general counsel for SK Hart Properties, the company that owns the shopping center on 700 East between 500 South and 600 South.
“The streetcar has been in storage for seven or eight years,” said Semnani, “but it’s well-preserved.