The developers of the Sloane Townhomes, the second phase of the project at the northwest corner of 800 S and 200 W, have applied for building permits for 18 units on a .55 acre parcel in the Central 9th neighborhood. The 88-unit Sloane Apartments received its...
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GSBS acquires locals Atlas Architects, key builders of Central 9th
A small local architecture firm that has had an outsized impact on redeveloping one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods has called it a day. Atlas Architects, founded in 2008 and based in the Central 9th neighborhood they helped build, has been acquired by GSBS, a...
Historic church building near Trolley Square on the market…and the demo list
Owners of .49 acres parcel on a prominent corner in Central City have applied for a demolition permit for two buildings, the Palace Meat Co. at 705 E 500 S and the former Phillips Congregational Church at 479 S 700 E, built in 1907 and long ago converted to an office...
Looking ahead 2025 – what we’re expecting in the new year
With borrowing costs remaining high, a Trump Administration threatening new tariffs, and state leaders keen on shaking up housing and homeless policy, development in Salt Lake will see significant impacts in the new year. While we don’t have a crystal ball or a seer’s...
Builders and owners beware: SLC now ready to enforce on building code violations
Claiming it costs $15, 551 a year to monitor and provide emergency services to a single boarded building, city leaders recently raised fees dramatically for boarded buildings while creating a civil fine process for building code violators. Aimed at deterring rogue...
North Temple corridor continues to attract market-rate residential projects
Just a block from the Folsom Trail and not much farther to the nearest TRAX station, developers plan a 53-unit market-rate building at 33 North 900 West in Euclid/Fairpark, contributing to what looks to become a wholesale transformation of that neighborhood. The...
Deal to redevelop 100 acres on North Temple with $900M in public subsidies reaches bottom of the 9th inning
Under the pressure of a year-end deadline, the Salt Lake City Council and Larry H. Miller (LHM) Real Estate have come to terms that will enable redevelopment of nearly 100 acres of reclaimed brownfields near the Utah State Fairpark that includes public financing for a...
Broadway hotel proposal for upzone gets rejected by Planning Commission
A project to transform a 40-year hole in the urban fabric along East 300 South fell short of approval at the Planning Commission this month, one of several recent applications seeking to upzone property to D-1, the city’s most intense category. At 256 E 300 S, owners...
More details emerge for the Silos project – sister to the Post District – in north Granary
Developers recently provided the city with refined design details for the first big residential building planned for the block just west of the Post District. The Silos is a nearly 8-acre assemblage that sits on the block bordered by 500 and 600 S, 400 and 500 W that...
Affordable housing in the Power District? No, Fairpark development officials say
Top officials of the newly created UFAIR District, empowered by the state Legislature to oversee the new taxing and development entity that includes the Utah State Fairpark and the Power District, have come out against including affordable housing in the 93-acre...
Revived 100% affordable project on North Temple getting closer to construction
Signaling a major step to finally breaking ground, local developers 22 Communities have lined up their financing and submitted construction documents to the city for an 100% affordable project at 1881 W North Temple. In a story we’ve been covering since 2021,...
More deal points emerge for the Power District as developers and City race toward deadline
Additional details of the special zoning district and a development agreement being negotiated for the 93 contiguous acres of the Power District west of Downtown trickled out of a City Council briefing this week. Under the pressure of state statute requiring a new...












