As the luxury Downtown Salt Lake apartment market softens for investors, it would seem increasingly risky business to be bringing new top-class residential product to the market. Unless, perhaps, those luxury living spaces were furnished, hoping to undercut...
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How exclusionary zoning created Salt Lake City (and how policymakers are responding)
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New apartments would add family-sized units while replacing iconic Greek diner on Broadway
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Top takeaways from Mendenhall’s fifth ‘State of the City’
Building Salt Lake is the leading source of commercial real estate news in Utah. Sign up to get our free emails in your inbox. Support our endeavor by becoming a Member today. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall wants sports in the capital city. She wants to see more...
With its new gate installed, the LDS Church plans to block pedestrians from Main Street Plaza overnight
Building Salt Lake is the leading source of commercial real estate news in Utah. Sign up to get our free emails in your inbox. Support our endeavor by becoming a Member today. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has erected a gate and plans to partially...
Post District to continue food and beverage buildout with a new ‘holy’ bar
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Trends 2024 – what we’ll be watching in the new year
2023 brought the end of the apartment boom, pretty much everywhere. Is the Salt Lake City market going to weather the storm? Are those long-term growth predications still accurate? Keep your clicks here. We’ll be watching these trends and others in 2024. Declining...
A developer is challenging Salt Lake City’s 100-foot minimum height law. Read the appeal.
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Planning Commission denies proposed new mixed-use building Downtown over its lack of height
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Christensen: The real threat to the Rio Grande Plan is zero-sum thinking
A driver, a bicyclist, and a pedestrian were sitting at a bar. The bartender brings them a plate of a dozen cookies. The driver quickly snatches up eleven of the cookies, turns to the pedestrian, and while pointing at the remaining cookie, tells the pedestrian, “Watch...
Opinion: Downtown’s not-so-spectacular post-pandemic recovery calls for bold city action in Mayor’s 2nd term
Downtown Salt Lake City’s eye-popping post-Covid recovery was reported nationwide as we topped the country in bringing 39% more people Downtown in 2023 than before the pandemic. Cue record scratch. A recent reassessment of the data sample used by the University of...
Texas developer picks up data center in East Downtown with plans for two new high-rises
Sign up to get free Building Salt Lake emails in your inbox.Building Salt Lake Pro and Premium Members can search for any building permit in Salt Lake City. Stay in the know in the market by becoming a Member today. After initial plans to retrofit a hulking data...












