WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — After decades of selling products and supporting families at the Redwood Swap Meet, things are about to change.
“It’s devastating. It’s part of the community, its part of the history here,” said Angela Edge, who has been coming to the Swap Meet for her whole life.
“My dad brought us; he’s passed now. But I brought my kids, we brought my grandkids now,” she said
She said the Redwood Swap Meet has made it possible for her to buy things for her 10 kids.
“This is where we buy the shoes, this is where we buy the clothes. Economically, this is what we do,” she said.
On Tuesday night, the West Valley City Council voted to rezone the Redwood Drive-in Movie Theatre , which is where the swap meet is hosted, from commercial to residential land. Edge Homes is the developer that wants to turn the area into 40 condos and 244 townhomes.
“We wanted it to stay commercial so that we could purchase it as a commercial land, and keep the Redwood Drive-in and Swap Meet,” said Cristian Gutierrez Carbajal, one of the organizers pushing against the rezone.