Salt Lake City’s Ballpark neighborhood continues attracting owner-occupied housing with a new row home style project proposed along Main Street. The Poet’s Row townhomes would bring an East Coast, single-family attached housing style to Ballpark, at 1448 S. Main St....
Builders are still being drawn to the 300 West corridor, continuing an ongoing residential build-out of what has historically been a commercial and car-centric part of Salt Lake City. The latest proposal is a six-story apartment building that would bring 287 units to...
The Salt Lake City Council will have its second public hearing tonight for the Fleet Block rezoning, a proposal long in development in the planning department. The council could close its hearing and vote on the item - a combined ordinance establishing a new...
As Salt Lake Design Week 2020 (Oct 5-9) capped off its first all-virtual edition, a panel of non-designers hosted by Lloyd Architects reflected on how design is built into their businesses and the communities they serve - and how they've adjusted to constantly...
Developers are adding thousands of badly needed affordable housing units to Salt Lake City, but not in every neighborhood, and not only on the west side. New multi-family developments that are either partially or entirely affordable to people earning less than the...
In a proposal important to developers of small multi-family urban infill, planners from Salt Lake City proposed revisions to the RMF-30 zone to the city council this week. It’s the city’s most recent go at a new residential infill ordinance since pioneering...
A developer is asking for permission to build a bit higher to accommodate for copious parking for a building that would bring low-income units to the Ballpark neighborhood near the booming Central 9th area. The Chrome Works project at 269 W. Brooklyn Ave (near 1000...
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...
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 long-dead corner at the eastern gateway to the Central 9th District in Salt Lake City will soon gain a whole new profile. Locals JZW Architects presented their plans to the city’s planning commission recently for Granary on 9th, a three-story, mixed-use,...
The Salt Lake City Planning Division is attempting to prepare downtown Sugar House for a future with more sidewalk vitality and less space for cars. Its recent proposal to the city council for updating the business district’s design standards is getting some flak -...