With low unemployment rates and a high demand for housing, the construction industry is busy and in demand. Construction firms currently have the edge over developers as bids are coming in higher than usual for large projects. The rise in construction and labor...
There are over 800 residential units under construction in the downtown core (from North Temple to 400 South and 200 East to I-15). While the most recent similarly sized wave of downtown construction featured the highrises in the City Creek Center, the current wave...
The city's announcement on the four sites for new homeless resource centers may have received mixed reviews, but for many residents and business in the Rio Grande District, the news means that the chaos in their neighborhood may begin to calm down after years of...
The final stages of the Marmalade Block redevelopment, on the 500 North block of 300 West, are underway. The Marmalade library branch opened in February of this year and the developers of The Grove, a 12-unit townhome project, waiting for building permit approvals...
One of the remaining suburban inspired institutions in Sugar House will soon be redeveloped. With the January 2017 closing of the Sugar House Shopko, the property's new owners are looking to residents for feedback on how to best redevelop the site, located at the...
Sometimes a building, or its potential impact, is large enough that it is approved in sections. That is the case with the Dixon Medical Building in Sugar House. The Salt Lake City Planning Commission approved the building design in October but required the...
In a meeting that lasted over five hours, various stakeholders gathered last Thursday for a work session with the Historic Landmark Commission to discuss a proposed mixed-use development of 3.5 acres on the 600 South block of 700 East. Nothing has been approved and...
The city is slowly chipping away at the reported 7,500-unit gap in affordable housing. During Tuesday's formal council meeting, members of the Salt Lake City Council unanimously approved loans for two affordable housing projects, North 4th and Granary Place, that...
Downtown Salt Lake City's newest office building, the District Attorney office building, has officially topped out. Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams and Salt Lake District Attorney Sim Gill led a "topping off" ceremony Tuesday morning at the office building's...
Salt Lake City’s for-sale housing stock is limited; not only in terms of supply and demand but the limited stock in the city is also older, requiring more upkeep than the typical Salt Lake County home. These factors, especially the limited for-sale housing supply,...
Uncertainty influenced a lot of the neighbor pushback that developer and owner of the Trolley Square shopping center, Khosrow Semnani, has received over his request to rezone most of the block directly south of the historic Trolley Square. After two favorable...
Westside residents and their local city and state representatives have long decried the disproportionate amount of low-income and transitional housing in their communities. Research shows that affordable housing best serves residents when that housing is located in...