Long marked by acres of parking lots and shuttered storefronts, South Downtown seems ripe for a spring. New multi-family buildings, 320,000 square feet of Class A office space, imminent development…
Leaders looking to downtown’s future
Local and state officials marked the 10 year anniversary of the Downtown Rising campaign, while announcing plans for an updated action plan during a Tuesday morning media event on the…
Downtown officials launch new downtown plan
Downtown Salt Lake City is experiencing unprecedented growth. In anticipation of current and future growth, the Downtown Alliance in collaboration with city and county leaders, announced the 2017 Downtown Rising…
Salt Lake to design potential Main Street cycle track
Salt Lake could soon get a three-mile, near-direct route — and possibly longer — for people on bikes riding into and out of downtown on Main Street, thanks in part…
Several years into the redevelopment of downtown South Salt Lake, we offer some observations
South Salt Lake proves the adage that transportation and land use are two sides of the same coin. The implementation of its master plan to build a “downtown” around a…
City Creek’s impact on downtown growth by the numbers
When the LDS Church first announced plans a decade ago to redevelopment the flagging ZCMI Center and Crossroads Malls, the economy was booming and developers were beginning to take a…
Downtown experience crucial to continued success
Like the rest of the region, downtown Salt Lake is growing. Downtown’s workforce has increased 17 percent, or just over 11,000 workers, since 2007. In addition, the downtown residential population…
Downtown growing but needs more housing
Downtown Salt Lake is maintaining the steady growth of the past decade according to the newly released 2016 State of Downtown Economic Benchmark Report by the Downtown Alliance and commercial…
Here are the big changes proposed for all new buildings in the greater Downtown area
The proposed changes aren’t all about making taller buildings. The city aims to accommodate growth in the Downtown area and create more safe, livable public spaces at the same time.
Planning Commission votes in support of new downtown plan
*This article has been updated The Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted to forward a favorable recommendation to City Council on an updated version of the Downtown Community Plan. This is the second…
Urban expert: downtown needs more residential growth
Downtown Salt Lake’s recent growth is just the tip of the iceberg according to Dr. Arthur C. Nelson, a professor of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development at the University…
New plan puts trains in Downtown SLC underground – and makes the Rio Grande depot a real central station
Removing the train yards that remain in west Downtown Salt Lake City opens 52 acres of developable land, claim the authors of an uncommissioned plan currently bubbling in SLC development…