Intermountain Healthcare has purchased about eight acres of land in the center of Salt Lake City. At 745 S State, the land had been home to the Sears department store, which closed several years ago before it was sold to a developer who had been working on building...
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Developer of affordable housing forced to overpark and overspend on east Downtown project
More affordable housing is coming to east Downtown. At 144 South 500 East, a six-story, all-electric, 110-unit building on .62 acre is set to provide all of its 53 studios and 57 1-bdrms at 60% of AMI – which is $38,760 for one person and $44,280 for a two-person...
Downtown’s civic campus getting more residential if planning commission agrees to ground-floor vacancy concessions
A 54-unit, market-rate apartment building at 353 East 500 South by locals Cowboy Partners looks to share the glow of Salt Lake City’s reinvestment in its campus in and around historic City Hall. The project will sit directly east of the Public Safety Building on...
The State of Utah is looking to build a new Downtown liquor store with 10-story parking garage
The State of Utah is getting ready to bid out a project that would include a new, two-story liquor store on Broadway and an up to 10-story parking garage behind it. The liquor store would be built just over a block from another existing liquor store in Downtown Salt...
New renderings for West Quarter’s Phase 2 show impressive architectural and mixed-use ambition
One of the worst holes in Downtown’s urban fabric will be getting filled by the second phase of the West Quarter project, whose Phase 1, along with the Salt Palace convention center hotel a block away, is sprouting a downtown skyline west of Main Street. New...
In pictures: Depot District construction transforming west Downtown
Just west and south of the Gateway Mall, housing projects are coming to fruition that look to transform this part of the city. In a neighborhood long dominated by railroads, the Interstate, and many people's comings and goings (it's called the Gateway for a reason), a...
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...
Investors’ confidence in Downtown residential market continues as mixed-use 10-story project on 200 E to add 15 more floors next door
Developers who had to petition for a height increase last year - even though their project is in the city’s most intense Downtown zone, D-1 - are going back to city hall. This time, it’s to add two stories and make adjustments for a phase two of their project, a...
Vacant building would make way for new Downtown housing under Broadway proposal
Builders plan to turn a vacant building into 43 new residences under a new proposal for a block of Broadway that is primed to see rapid redevelopment in coming years. Axis Architects submitted preliminary drawings for the new housing at 218 W. 300 S., just east of the...
The Rio Grande Plan, updated: Putting trains underground in Depot and Granary Districts gets Salt Lake City’s attention
A plan designed by citizen-professionals that would reinvigorate train transport, remove barriers between Downtown and the city’s west side, and free up hundreds of acres to redevelopment has been making its way to some “important stakeholders” since we last reported....
Builders plan to convert a shuttered hotel Downtown into hundreds of new micro apartments
A Denver-based team has paired up with a local developer to redevelop the Red Lion Hotel towers and surrounding site near Salt Lake City’s Downtown, the team announced this week. The development would come in two phases, with a conversion to nearly 200 micro...
The Utah Pantages Theater is on its way to gaining national landmark status. Will it matter before the city sells it to developers?
All the hearings are over. No more public presentations, reviews, or comments are required. The Utah Theater property at 144 S. Main, owned by the city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA), is teed up to be sold to developers as soon as the parties can agree on contract...












