Salt Lake City’s East Central neighborhood is known for its leafy streets, historic buildings, and horizontal mixed use. South Temple street, an ornamental ribbon sitting atop this gem of a neighborhood east of Downtown, hosts Salt Lake City’s grandest...
New development, big and small, continues to mark the sustained growth of the Central 9th neighborhood in Salt Lake City. Its form-based zoning, adopted in 2013, marked some blocks for transition and other for stability. An interesting neighborhood is taking shape...
The Downtown Alliance hosted a webinar panel on outdoor dining during COVID this week, and Salt Lake City presented its first design guidelines for businesses expanding their premises into the public right of way due to the pandemic. Urban designers in the Planning...
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission recommended approval last week for an upzone and master plan amendment in the heart of the 9th & 9th neighborhood for a 23-unit townhome and historic rehabilitation project. The commissioners’ 8-1 vote in favor of...
East Downtown will soon see new residential construction along the South Temple - 100 South corridor. At 25 South 300 East, Lotus Republic will add 80 market-rate apartments to what may already be the densest residential area in the state. The podium + 5 story...
Building Salt Lake checks in with live construction projects around the city we've been following. All photos by Luke Garrott. In the Depot District, CW Urban's rental project The Beverly (45 S 600 W) and Centro Civico Mexicano's Casa Milagros (145 S 600 W) senior...
A four-story 244-unit residential project by locals W3 Partners aims to add to the 2100 South and 200-300 West area, also known as TRAX Central Pointe and the Home Depot corner. The Nest @ 21st will offer 180 studio, 66 1-bdrm, and 70 2-bdrm units - 244 total....
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Local developers Ivory Homes have applied for a FB-UN-1 zoning change on a long-undeveloped 3.2 acre parcel at F St and 13th Avenue in Salt Lake City’s historic Avenues neighborhood. The open space at 673 North F Street - amply zoned for single-family...
The Salt Lake City Transportation Division is vetting with the public its new guidelines for city streets. If adopted by the city council, the “Street Typologies Guide" would have significant consequences for the city’s transportation and land-use design. What...
Besides responding to COVID, earthquakes, and anti-police protests in her first six months in office, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is also launching several pilot innovations in public space that have the potential to transform the city. The city’s “Stay safe,...
With housing affordability and supply at low-enough levels to merit a “crisis,” policy-makers in many American cities are opening their zoning code to accessory dwelling units (ADUs). In Salt Lake City the code has loosened, yet low numbers show that significant...