A rendering of the new downtown entertainment district. Image via Smith Entertainment District The plans are finally here. After years of waiting, the Smith Entertainment Group has released details of its new entertainment district coupled with new renderings and...
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Salt Lake City approves $7 million in loans for housing, retail in Ballpark, Liberty Wells
A rendering of the proposed mixed-use project at 1345 S. Jefferson St. in Ballpark. Image via Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency and Abstract Development Group New developments are in the pipeline across Salt Lake City, and the city’s Community Reinvestment...
Salt Lake City to consider selling $12.2M of Rio Grande District land for $2.5M
Salt Lake City is considering a proposal to sell over two acres of its land for an 80 percent discount on its appraised value. Members of the Salt Lake City Council will consider a proposal Tuesday afternoon that could allow for the sale of 2.33 acres of land in the...
There’s a glut of studios and one-bedrooms in SLC. So why are student housing complexes popping up?
The Montaire North student housing complex in Sugar House, looking southwest, in June 2025. Photo by Devin Zander | Building Salt Lake While multi-family residential real estate in Salt Lake City continues to lag, one aspect of the market seems to be going vertical. ...
SLC moving ahead with Leonardo renovation plan for office space, youth services
Work could begin in the coming months to overhaul the former Leonardo into offices for Salt Lake City staff. City officials recently filed a commercial building permit application to remodel parts of the old library building and prepare it to house offices for...
Intermountain seeks skybridge over Main Street for hospital garage
Intermountain Health wants to build a seven-level parking garage on the west side of Main Street and connect it to its planned Sears Block hospital with an enclosed skybridge over the street. The health system filed an application for a zoning amendment and...
Salt Lake City’s construction costs have climbed faster than any other market
The cost of non-residential construction in Salt Lake City is up 7.87 percent from a year ago, the steepest increase among the eight metropolitan markets tracked by Mortenson, the national general contractor whose quarterly cost index is one of the few public measures...
Hines lists historic Kearns and Daynes office buildings for sale
Hines and its co-owning partner listed the Kearns Building on Main Street for sale on Thursday after owning the historic building for over three decades and wrapping up extensive renovations six years ago. The 10-story, 169,000-square-foot building at 136 S. Main...
Newmark Mountain West buys the historic Ford building for new headquarters
One of the Intermountain West's largest commercial brokerages is moving to the west side of Downtown Salt Lake City. Newmark Mountain West announced Tuesday that it has acquired the Ford Building at 280 S. 400 West and will begin a $40 million renovation of the 1924...
Mike Maughan speaks about SEG’s high-level plans for the area near the Delta Center
Many in Salt Lake City and the greater Wasatch Front are eagerly awaiting what Downtown could look like in the coming years. Between the Salt Palace Convention Center overhaul and plans to build an entertainment plaza, the Smith Entertainment Group is at the heart of...
Salt Lake City’s Whiskey Street rebuild to include a second floor and rooftop bar
A cluster of popular bars on Downtown Salt Lake City’s main street continues to make moves toward rebuilding following a catastrophic fire last August. The owners of the Whiskey Street building, which was one of several businesses destroyed in a fire just over one...
Labor costs have gotten better, but multifamily developers still face headwinds in Utah
To build or not to build — that is the question. As Salt Lake City’s multifamily market continues to see essentially flat rent growth and concessions to renters that will likely continue into the coming months, developers face the tough call of deciding whether now's...












