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...
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...
Developers of a project deemed "too large for the neighborhood" by the Salt Lake City Planning Commission, are hoping for a better reception from the Historic Landmark Commission (HLC) when they go before the commission sometime early next year with a scaled-down...
A new urban node is developing around the 1940 West North Temple TRAX Station. The area is already a large employment sector with several state offices just north of the station, but now hundreds of new residential units are coming to the area potentially adding over...
Central Ninth Market may have just opened, but the market's developers, Atlas Architects, are ready to start phase two of the blocks' redevelopment, the Central 9th Row Homes. The developers propose to build four townhomes directly south of the market near the...
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. The online real estate and rental marketplace, Zillow, ranked...
Just a few years ago, the stretch of Wilmington Avenue between Highland Drive and 1300 East was dominated by surface parking and a large vacant parcel. The center of the block was a dead zone in one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in Salt Lake. While some surface...
After multiple setbacks, a plan to redevelop the 27-acre campus of the now-defunct Granite High School in South Salt Lake has been revived. Garbett Homes recently announced updated plans to redevelop the back end of the property, where the school's pool building is...
Another contentious Sugar House project by Craig Mecham Management is moving forward. The Salt Lake City Planning Commission approved with conditions a Conditional Building and Site Design review request for the Dixon Medical Building. The developers will need to...