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Growth continues around Pioneer Park

Growth continues around Pioneer Park

The area surrounding Pioneer Park is in transition.  Perceptions of rampant crime and homelessness conflict with a park that is known for summer concerts and weekly farmer's market.  The success of the Broadway Park Lofts shows that despite the neighborhood's...

Utah Fairpark may finally get a soccer stadium

Utah Fairpark may finally get a soccer stadium

Eight years after losing out to Sandy in a bid to house the Real Salt Lake stadium, the Utah State Fairpark may finally get a soccer stadium.  On Monday, the Utah State Fairpark Chairman of the Board, Roger Beattie and Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen formally...

Planning Commission approves Beehive Brick development

Planning Commission approves Beehive Brick development

The Salt Lake City Planning Commission unanimously approved two petitions requested by the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA) for the development of the four-story Beehive Brick building at 244 South 500 West. The project will be developed by Artspace and...

Scaled down building likely for new DA offices

Scaled down building likely for new DA offices

The immediate need for new offices for Salt Lake County District Attorneys may effectively kill plans for a significant public-private development on the northeast corner of the intersection at 500 South and Main Street.  The Salt Lake County Council voted yesterday...

Ambitious tower proposed for downtown Salt Lake

Ambitious tower proposed for downtown Salt Lake

West Temple could soon rival Main Street as the street with Salt Lake's tallest buildings.  The first is the proposed convention center hotel.  The hotel must be built within 1000 feet from the Salt Palace Convention Center, which means the new hotel will most likely...

City Council to decide if taller is better in Central 9th

City Council to decide if taller is better in Central 9th

The Central 9th neighborhood has the right ingredients to be one of Salt Lake's best neighborhoods.  The neighborhood is close to downtown, has easy freeway access and a TRAX station.  The Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City has heavily invested in the area with...

The revilization of the Ballpark neighborhood continues

The revilization of the Ballpark neighborhood continues

Smith's Ballpark was built twenty years ago with the promise of new development to follow.  Two decades later the neighborhood surrounding the ballpark, at the corner of 1300 South and West Temple, is beginning to see that promised revitalization with new projects in...

Sandy unveil its downtown version 2.0

Sandy unveil its downtown version 2.0

Over five years since plans for a city center focused around signature towers fell apart, the city of Sandy has regrouped and unveiled The Cairns, its new 20-year master plan, that calls for a more modest city center with slightly more diminutive towers at the...

A revolutionary way to care for the homeless

A revolutionary way to care for the homeless

Urban centers have long been a gathering place for a region's homeless population.  Because of this many cities struggle with how to handle large homeless populations, with some cities resorting to treating the homeless like criminals and those who attempt to offer...

Construction should soon commence on Alta Gateway apartments

Construction should soon commence on Alta Gateway apartments

It has been almost a year since the Salt Lake planning commission approved plans for the Alta Gateway apartments.  But construction crews should being to emerge in the area just west of the Gateway as the developers, Wood Partners,  have applied for building permits...