The cost of non-residential construction in Salt Lake City is up 7.87 percent from a year ago, the steepest increase among the eight metropolitan markets tracked by Mortenson, the national general contractor whose quarterly cost index is one of the few public measures...
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Hines lists historic Kearns and Daynes office buildings for sale
Hines and its co-owning partner listed the Kearns Building on Main Street for sale on Thursday after owning the historic building for over three decades and wrapping up extensive renovations six years ago. The 10-story, 169,000-square-foot building at 136 S. Main...
Retail in the Salt Lake metro is tighter than anywhere in the West
Retail developers across the Salt Lake City metro added 185,000 square feet of space in the first six months of 2026, the lowest January-to-June total on record, according to a third quarter report from Marcus & Millichap. Last year, developers added more than 1.3...
Ogden picks Giv Group to convert historic Forest Service building into housing
Ogden's Redevelopment Agency has chosen Giv Group to redevelop the former U.S. Forest Service Building, a 1930s Art Deco landmark in the city's East Central neighborhood, into a mix of Weber State University creative space and affordable housing. The RDA board voted...
Gardner, Alfandre pair up to launch new for-sale development firm
Two well-known local development companies announced on Tuesday that they had partnered on a new venture that seeks to build more for-sale options across all housing types. Kensington Home Company will target infill urban locations throughout the population centers...
Newmark Mountain West buys the historic Ford building for new headquarters
One of the Intermountain West's largest commercial brokerages is moving to the west side of Downtown Salt Lake City. Newmark Mountain West announced Tuesday that it has acquired the Ford Building at 280 S. 400 West and will begin a $40 million renovation of the 1924...
Woodbury wraps up conversion of IBM Building from office to Class A apartments
Woodbury Corporation has finished converting an aging South Temple office building into apartments after using a state and federal tax credit incentive to add new housing Downtown. Woodbury Corporation received an estimated $3.2 million in state and federal tax...
Intermountain unveils new details for new SLC hospital at Sears site
Nearly two years after Salt Lake City agreed to rezone the site that is set to become the next Intermountain hospital, the healthcare provider has released new details and the first renderings that provide the clearest picture of the layout of the incoming hospital...
Planners back 16-story GEM tower in Sugar House — including drive-thru
Salt Lake City planners are recommending the Planning Commission approve a 16-story mixed-use tower on the Zions Bank site in downtown Sugar House this week, siding with the developer on the two most contested pieces of the project. The project, known as GEM Sugar...
South Salt Lake planned a new downtown. Can these projects breathe life into it?
Developers are underway with the addition of hundreds of new housing units near South Salt Lake’s urban core, as the suburb continues to attract attention from investors who want to capitalize on the area’s development-friendly zoning. Blaser Ventures is well underway...
Major ski resort owner considering move from Denver to SLC: report
The ski company behind the notorious Ikon Pass is eyeing a potential move from Denver to Salt Lake City, according to a new report. The threatened departure has city officials in the Colorado capital scrambling to keep Alterra Mountain Co. in the Mile High City,...
In the rental housing era, new pitch would bring 97 condos near Trolley Square
All renderings by WATG. Eleven months after demolishing the historic church that sat on the site, a developer is proposing to build one of the tallest buildings east of 700 East in Salt Lake City, a project that would offer some of the only for-sale condo towers in...












