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Developers share details on latest project in the Granary District
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Sugar House businesses to be replaced by new apartments
A developer has submitted for a demolition permit for a pair of vintage stores, art gallery and studio, which would be replaced by a new apartment building in Sugar House. The Lotus Zeppelin apartments would be built at the site currently home to the Copperhive...
Property owner pitches a new gas station for northwest corner of Sugar House Park
https://buildingsaltlake.com/membership-join/ The owner of a commercial property on the northwest corner of Sugar House Park has a surprising idea for the parcel once home to a Sizzler restaurant: turn it into a gas station. In a conditional use application filed with...
Coachman’s redevelopment not ready for primetime, Planning Commission says
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission effectively rejected an attempt by the owner of the now-shuttered Coachman’s diner to build a mixed-use development with for-sale housing in one gargantuan building on State Street. Mike Nikols, a member of the family who owns...
The Granary District is shedding industrial uses for new housing and office space
Since its designation as a tax-friendly zone for investors, it’s only been a matter of time before projects start to stack up in Salt Lake City’s Granary District. It appears the time has come. A number of projects are in the queue for development, many of the...
A problematic motel in Ballpark may make way for new mixed-use housing
For years, the Main Street Motel has plagued the Ballpark neighborhood. It will be history if the city agrees to rezone the two acres it sits on and allow developers to replace it with a new mixed-use project. A development team with several other mid-sized projects...
Developers wanted to build eight townhomes in Liberty Wells. After pushback, they’ll have to try again.
Developers conceded they may have stretched too far when asking to build up to 45-foot townhomes on a site once home to a historic mansion in Liberty Wells. Members of the Planning Commission agreed, nearly voting against the project before giving the applicant...
Builders look to add a new large-footprint apartment building on west North Temple
A manufacturing building and surface parking lot on west North Temple would make way for another five-over-one apartment building under what would be the continued redevelopment of the transit corridor. The new homes at 1881 W. North Temple St. would be mixed-income,...
New developers pitch smaller project on tricky parcel near 9th & 9th
A tricky piece of land near the core of the 9th & 9th business improvement district would become home to four large attached homes under the latest proposal for the site. Developers initially wanted to fit 12 townhomes — each of them net-zero — onto a piece of...
Brownstone-style development latest on the way to Ballpark neighborhood
The neighborhood that has attracted the attention of developers looking to build "missing middle" housing just south of Downtown would become home to a Brownstone-style townhome development under a plan approved by the Planning Commission this week. The chair of the...
New hotel conversion in Union Pacific building is on track for construction after crowdfunding, years of COVID-related delays
Developers still plan to add a hotel onto the backside of the historic Union Pacific building Downtown, although the Planning Commission gave them another year to figure out financing that has delayed the project on the north end of the Gateway mall. While the Athens...












