Salt Lake City is experiencing unprecedented growth. According to James Wood, Ivory-Boyer Senior Fellow at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, more residential units will be development downtown in the next 10 years than were developed in the previous 100. Wood's...
Affordable housing has dominated the local news cycle this week after the Salt Lake City Council acting as the Redevelopment Agency Board of Salt Lake voted Tuesday to allocate $21 million for housing for various income levels and $11.5 million to purchase sites for...
The VOID Corporate Center will join the original plans for the Triad Center and the Newhouse Hotel tower as ambitious downtown projects that would never be. After multiple renditions, the VOID Corporate Center (formerly referred to as the Air Center) appears to dead....
For the past several years the 200 West block of 200 South has been a dead zone separating the downtown core from Gateway area. Demolition work has started on a mixed-use project by PEG Development that will fill a large portion of the block and help connect two...
There doesn't seem to be a lot good news coming from the west side of downtown Salt Lake. The city's homelessness epidemic and growing quality of life issues typically dominate the narrative surrounding the Rio Grande neighborhood. But several blocks north of the...
Downtown Salt Lake's newest office tower is officially open for business. After an opening ceremony and building benediction by Bishop Gérald Caussé, a counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, officials cut the ribbon...
In an attempt to assuage the affordable housing crisis in Salt Lake City, the City Council acting as the Board of Directors of the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA) is leveraging its agency's role in development to ensure that affordable housing is included...
Downtown Salt Lake City has lost many of its historic buildings in the past several decades. As the city embraced the car, buildings were razed to provide more parking downtown. New development in the city has often been at the expense of historic buildings. Not...
Downtown Salt Lake is maintaining the steady growth of the past decade according to the newly released 2016 State of Downtown Economic Benchmark Report by the Downtown Alliance and commercial real estate firm, CBRE. The report, created to assist downtown...
Salt Lake City has changed a lot since 2007. Nine years ago, expectations were high that the city was about to enter into a new era of growth: City Creek had been announced and project proposals began popping up all over the city especially in the Marmalade and Sugar...
While the new lights may not be red, Salt Lake's former red-light district could soon be illuminated with new signage. On Wednesday the Planning Commission voted to forward a favorable recommendation to City Council for a zoning text amendment to create a signage...
Downtown Salt Lake City has enough parking to sustain decades of future growth without needing to build additional parking according to a new report on parking in Sugar House and downtown. On Tuesday, representatives from Nelson Nygaard, coauthors of the parking...