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U. presses pause on SLC’s innovation district in Rio Grande while insisting they’re still “committed to a partnership”
After assembling over 10 acres of property, offering multiple failed RFPs to developers, employing design consultant teams, and launching the brand “Station Center” over seven years ago, Salt Lake City’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA) has most recently pinned its...
Pioneer Park neighborhood to see single-use HQ office growth, despite zoning’s insistence on mixed-use
At 400 West and 400 South, the Fuller Paint Building (1922), restored by Big-D Construction in 2005 for its headquarters in Salt Lake City, plays an important role in the architectural integrity of the city’s warehouse district. Since then, Big-D has become a major...
Housing starts for first half of year show multi-family speeding up, single-family resting
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Pioneering spirit alive in south Downtown with 50-unit project on West Temple
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UTA and City amping bus linkages between west side neighborhoods, University, and central city
Utah Transit Authority’s “Change Day” - when it adjusts bus and train schedules, currently three times a year - is coming again on August 7. While changes to riders’ routines usually bring complaints, Salt Lake City residents will see some increased options starting...
First large residential project on Folsom Trail submits plans for development
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City’s displacement consultants drop data bomb: there’s ‘nowhere to go’ for displaced renters
Even though you know, through anecdotes and experience, that something is happening doesn’t mean that those impressions are true across the board. The city’s department of Community and Neighborhoods and City Council received the results last week of an impressively...
UTA’s new office HQ mixed-use tower will anchor a renewed transit hub at 600 West. Is the Rio Grande Plan dead?
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City violates its own ‘complete streets’ ordinance while rebuilding 100 S near the U., but why?
What happens if a city doesn’t follow its own laws? Not an outdated, inconsequential ordinance but one that is directly linked to public space, personal safety, freedom of movement, and environmental health? In late May, the Salt Lake City Attorney’s Office was served...
North Temple project continues single-use trend fronting transit corridor
With a design unlikely to help create the “new main street” along North Temple aspired to in the city’s master plan, developers eager to conceal their identity dropped designs for a market-rate rental project on the southwest corner of 10th West and N Temple. Across...
It’s blowin’ up, part 8: N Temple ‘catalytic’ mixed-income project getting ready to rise across from Rocky Mountain Power’s dead zone
On the middle stretch of the North Temple transit corridor, dead space rules at street level. The Utah State Fairpark’s narrow sidewalk, brick walls and empty lots for seasonal parking are outmatched only by the over 660 meters - yes, that’s six football fields...












