2025 was a wait-and-see kind of year for CRE, and multifamily residential in particular. While investors see green in the medium- and long-term in Mountain West markets, the economic uncertainty vibes are likely to again dominate in 2026. Those two forces–steady...
With comprehensive Salt Lake City zoning reform almost completed, one of its most effective advocates at City Hall won’t be around to usher it across the finish line. Darin Mano, City Council Member from District 5, has seen his last city council meeting as an elected...
A 109-unit apartment project at the northwest corner of 800 East and 400 South scraped through the Salt Lake City Planning Commission last week, but not without leaving part of its undercarriage at City Hall. The Planning Commission, which decides on the fate of...
Aspiring to be the “best transit-oriented development in Utah,” Salt Lake City’s Community Reinvestment Agency (CRA) presented to the planning commission last week with the intention of updating the city’s Downtown Plan and upzoning 35 city- and University of...
A key corner in the Ballpark neighborhood will never be the same. On the north east corner 1300 South and 300 West, the site of a former body shop is being transformed into a 200-unit affordable housing project that will include 8000 SF for a childcare facility...
A motivated group of Ballpark neighborhood residents is reaching out to residents, business owners, and members of the development community in an effort "to strengthen relationships and spark solutions” for the rapidly-changing area just south of Salt Lake City’s...
As nationwide data on multi-family residential continues to roll in, there’s no mistaking it - we’re in a slump. While the Salt Lake market continues to hold its own nationally for new multi-family permits issued over the last year, architects’ business...
An application to receive city landmark status for two 1906 ‘missing middle’ apartment buildings at the southwest corner of 300 South and 300 East is set to be approved by the Salt Lake City Council. The site, directly north of the flagship location of the City...
Sidewalks are blocked off as temporary buttresses hold up facades and walls. Insurance companies investigate, while owners process their loss and consider their options. The August 11th fire that tore through four food and beverage businesses on Salt Lake City’s Main...
In the 1850s, the Avenues became Salt Lake City’s first platted neighborhood. With relatively small blocks and narrow streets, its urban design encouraged the neighborliness and community that was hindered in the rest of the city by the spatial separation of 10-acre...
Plans for a 16-bed residential treatment facility on the main level and 68 supportive housing units above in the Euclid neighborhood were submitted to Salt Lake City planning last week by Valley Behavioral Health, a community non-profit. The property is a...
The night after the city council voted to approve Mayor Mendenhall’s revisions to off-street parking regulations for Downtown and the Gateway area this week, the mayor’s planning staff presented to the planning commission a series of exemptions for a $23 million,...