The Sugar House Central Business District has nearly all of the amenities found in a strong urban center: a mix of higher density residential, retail, dining, nightlife and office space. One component of a strong CBD that the Sugar House neighborhood currently lacks...
Salt Lake City has begun construction of the University to Downtown Bikeway, an extension of the 300 South protected bike lane/cycle track to the University of Utah. Unlike the downtown stretch of 300 South, the extension will not include protected lanes. The 300...
A missing middle development is coming to a growing section of the Ballpark neighborhood. On Wednesday, the Salt Lake City Planning Commission approved a Planned Development and Conditional Building and Site Design Review for the Richards Street Condos, a 32-unit...
In an attempt to assuage the affordable housing crisis in Salt Lake City, the City Council acting as the Board of Directors of the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA) is leveraging its agency's role in development to ensure that affordable housing is included...
Four years ago, Ed Blake, the Executive Director of Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity began to feel dissatisfied with types of homes that Habitat Humanity was building. "I knew we could do better," said Blake. Blake felt the floor plans of the homes weren't best...
The retail and residential developments have dominated the recent growth in the Sugar House Central Business District. Nearly six hundred residential units and retail square footage in the thousands have been added in a one-block radius of the Sugar House Monument...
A new urban node is emerging in the immediate vicinity of the North Temple TRAX and FrontRunner Stations. Construction is winding down on the 4th West Apartments on the 200 North block of 400 West and construction is underway on the first phase of the adjacent...
Downtown Salt Lake City has lost many of its historic buildings in the past several decades. As the city embraced the car, buildings were razed to provide more parking downtown. New development in the city has often been at the expense of historic buildings. Not...
Foothill Drive can often feel more suburban than urban. The car-friendly corridor serves as Salt Lake City's first eastside main entrance off of Interstates 80 and 215 and connects residents living on the east end of the Salt Lake Valley to the University of Utah....
In Salt Lake City affordable rental units have become increasingly scarce. Salt Lake rents are increasing at one of the fastest rates in the nation. The city's rental vacancy rate is hovering around 3 percent, indicating that the current housing supply is not...
Building height in Sugar House has been a contentious issue. As residents worked with the developers of the Sugarmont Apartments to reduce the project's original proposed height of 10-stories, just a block construction was already underway on the neighborhood's first...
The Rio Grande neighborhood's struggle with overwhelmed homeless services and quality of life issues for both temporary and full-time residents have been well documented. City, business and community leaders are anxious to see the neighborhood continue to develop,...