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First phase of large affordable housing project underway

First phase of large affordable housing project underway

An affordable housing development is underway less than one block from Salt Lake's largest cluster of under-construction market rate units.  Construction has started on the first phase of the North Fourth mixed-income development on the 300 North block of 500 West....

Third annual Garden Stroll brings pop-up parks to Main Street

Third annual Garden Stroll brings pop-up parks to Main Street

Just days before thousands of visitors will descend upon downtown Salt Lake for the bi-annual LDS General Conference, artists are putting their final touches on eight pop-up parks that for the next six weeks will add temporary outdoor public space to Main Street. The...

City Creek’s impact on downtown growth by the numbers

City Creek’s impact on downtown growth by the numbers

When the LDS Church first announced plans a decade ago to redevelopment the flagging ZCMI Center and Crossroads Malls, the economy was booming and developers were beginning to take a new interest in downtown Salt Lake.  But a year into construction, the housing bubble...

City Council considers changes to zoning in transit areas

City Council considers changes to zoning in transit areas

The Salt Lake City Council is one step closer to adopting changes to the approval standards for projects in close proximity to mass transit.  During a Tuesday work session, planning staff briefed city council members on proposed changes to the Transit Station Area...

Despite construction boom rents in Salt Lake continue to climb

Despite construction boom rents in Salt Lake continue to climb

Rents both locally and nationally continued to climb in February, but rents last year grew at a smaller rate than in 2014 and 2015.  According to a monthly rent report by Apartment List, an online rental marketplace, nationally rents rose by 2.4 percent in February...

Commission approves extra height for downtown project

Commission approves extra height for downtown project

The Salt Lake City Planning Commission determined that 85 feet is an appropriate height for a proposed residential building in the Depot District in downtown's west side.  On Wednesday, the commission unanimously approved a Conditional Building and Site Design Review...

Demolition work underway for large North Temple apartment project

Demolition work underway for large North Temple apartment project

A long-underutilized block that serves as a gateway to downtown is about to be redeveloped. Demolition work has started on the former North Temple Inn, at the northwest corner of the 300 West and North Temple intersection, to make way for a large multifamily...

Downtown officials launch new downtown plan

Downtown officials launch new downtown plan

Downtown Salt Lake City is experiencing unprecedented growth.  In anticipation of current and future growth, the Downtown Alliance in collaboration with city and county leaders, announced the 2017 Downtown Rising Action Plan, an expansion of the 2007 Downtown Rising...

In Pictures: Transit adjacent affordable housing underway

In Pictures: Transit adjacent affordable housing underway

While city officials are working to avoid clustering new affordable housing on the city's westside, two affordable housing projects are under construction east of the freeway in the downtown and East Central neighborhoods.  The projects that will add a combined 342...

Developer wants to build two office towers downtown

Developer wants to build two office towers downtown

Downtown Salt Lake's skyline appears to be extending a bit further south thanks to a proposed office development by Houston-based developers, Patrinely Group.  The developers want to build two ten-story office buildings and two seven-story parking structures on the...