Salt Lake City is booming. The city had 56 residential and mixed-use projects under construction in 2018 with another 42 projects in the permitting and planning stages. I'm hoping to turn over Building Salt Lake to a new team soon. In the interim, I'm making the...
In June of 2014, I launched Building Salt Lake (originally SL City News) with the purpose of promoting smart growth, complete streets and community engagement. Starting a news blog from the ground up isn't easy and it required a lot of blind hope, grit and...
Developer's, Cottonwood Residential, plans to build to a large, block-long residential development in the Central City neighborhood failed to impress the Salt Lake City Planning Commission during a Wednesday's commission meeting. The zoning map for the Broadway...
With a newly-adopted Transit Master Plan and an extra $25 million in revenue for next year, the Salt Lake City Council is almost ready to move forward with the first phase of proposed enhancements to the city's transit network. On Tuesday, the council...
Rendering of the west face of the next phase of the West Station Apartments as would be seen from Harold Street (pictured). Image courtesy Salt Lake City public documents. Another large residential project is coming to the growing residential cluster near North...
Local developers, Giv Group have cleared the remaining administrative hurdles needed to build The Exchange, a large mixed-use, mixed-income development at the 300 East block of 400 South. On Wednesday, November 28, the Salt Lake City Planning Commission unanimously...
It's been 17 years since The Gateway opened as a mixed-use retail center in Downtown's western edge. Since then both the former retail center and its surrounding neighborhood have welcomed hundreds of new residential units, office workers, hotel rooms and...
The Central Ninth neighborhood has become one of the city's biggest success stories in neighborhood revitalization. The neighborhood is attracting both public and private investment resulting in hundreds of new residential units and dozens of new retail and dining...
Vestar, the Arizona-based owners of The Gateway, have spent over two years strategically rebranding the former retail center into an 18-hour, mixed-use arts and entertainment center. This fall the company has crossed significant milestones with new tenant...
Usually, when a developer goes before the Salt Lake City Planning Commission for a height variance, they are requesting additional height. But developers, CW Urban have argued that building up to the minimum height requirement for a small downtown corner lot would be...
A proposed hotel at the site of the historic Union Pacific Depot is now significantly closer to being realized after the Salt Lake City Planning Commission approved with conditions a Planned Development and Conditional and Building Site Design Review by Arizona-based...
Salt Lake City officials eye developing surplus city land as one strategy to help curb the city's affordable housing crisis and increase the city's housing stock. Officials estimate that as many as 128 city-owned properties on 67 acres are available for development,...