In Salt Lake, we may need a to coin a new term for the "missing middle" as more mid-density housing moves forward. On Wednesday, the Salt Lake City Planning Commission approved planned development request for two for-sale, mid-density townhome projects. Since...
Developments
Housing gap greatest for extremely low-income renters
Less than one-third extremely low-income Utah residents have access to income-restricted housing. That is according to a National Low Income Housing Coalition's (NLIHC) March housing report that found that Utah has 31 affordable housing units for every 100 extremely...
Construction set to start on Sugar House hotel
Sugar House's building boom shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. There are three large projects actively under construction in the neighborhood's central business district with a fourth project about to be underway. Preliminary construction has started on the...
A brewery is coming to the west side’s Folsom Trail Corridor
Justin Belliveau, the former chief operating officer for the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake, is applying his urban planning and redevelopment experience to help revitalize the Euclid neighborhood with a proposed brewery for the city's west side. Belliveau has...
Construction started on S-Line townhome project
Preliminary construction has started on Liberty Crossing, the first residential phase in The Crossing development in South Salt Lake City. The project is one of two proposed residential developments by Cowboy Properties for the 235-acre mixed-use planned development...
Affordable housing to replace the Royal Garden Inn
The site of an aging motel will soon be the home of downtown Salt Lake's next affordable housing development. Demolition work has started on the Royal Garden Inn at the 100 West block of 600 South to make way for construction of the Garden Lofts Apartments, a...
Missing Middle projects in the Marmalade nearing completion
Despite the wintry look in the images, the generally mild winter has been a boon to construction throughout the Wasatch Front and significant progress has been made on three missing middle projects in the Marmalade neighborhood. The three projects will add a combined...
Commission approves four mid-density projects
Three missing middle projects are moving forward after securing Salt Lake City Planning Commission approvals during Wednesday commission meeting. The three projects: The Mabel, Richmond Place Townhomes and the Wells Mixed-Use Development, will add a collective 27...
Neighborhood House seeks to build new campus in Poplar Grove
Neighborhood House, a nonprofit providing daycare service for children has support service for adults has outgrown its current campus between 400 South and 500 South on Goshen Street in the Poplar Grove neighborhood in Salt Lake City. The nonprofit has spent nearly...
City looking for developers for State Street project
Six years ago, city officials were celebrating the groundbreaking of the State Street Plaza, a large, mixed-use affordable housing project in the heart of downtown. After a series of missteps by the project's developers, La Porte Group, the project went bankrupt...
County rep promises Convention Center Hotel is still moving forward
The Salt Lake Convention Center Hotel is still alive, although finalization of the project is still some months away. That was the message that Erin Litvack, Deputy Mayor of County Services & Chief Administrative Officer for Salt Lake County, gave to the Downtown...
Group moving forward with first phase of NW Quadrant development
As Salt Lake City and state officials work toward a compromise on the management of the Northwest Quadrant and proposed inland port, one of the quadrant's largest landowners is ready to move forward with the area's first large private development. On Wednesday,...












