After eight years in the Rio Grande neighborhood, Spy Hop Productions, has deemed the area unsafe for the youth they serve. Spy Hop, a nonprofit dedicated to mentoring youth in the digital media arts, announced last week that the organization will move from its...
Salt Lake City is a step closer to having a year-round public market. On Tuesday, the Salt Lake City Council acting as the Board of Directors for the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA) approved allocating $175,000 for a market feasibility and fit study for...
When construction of the 24-story office tower, 111 Main, finishes later this year, Salt Lake will have one of its new tallest skyscrapers. But, Salt Lake's skyline would have had another building amongst its tallest had a proposed tower by Samuel Newhouse, the man...
Salt Lake's next tallest skyscraper won't be west of the Main Street corridor anytime soon. On Tuesday, the Salt Lake City Council unanimously voted to restrict the height of a proposed convention center hotel to a maximum height of 375 feet. The height restriction...
Trolley Square is now more connected. Thursday morning city leaders and representatives from UTA and GREENbike, Salt Lake's nonprofit bike share, officially opened the Google Fiber Station at Trolley Square, near the entrance to Whole Foods on 700 East. The station...
Local and state officials marked the 10 year anniversary of the Downtown Rising campaign, while announcing plans for an updated action plan during a Tuesday morning media event on the roof of the Walker Center building at the intersection of 200 South and Main Street....
The 200 West block of 200 South is one of the least vibrant in downtown Salt Lake. The block is dominated by dead space: surface parking, suburban style-storage facility, several vacant buildings and an aging office building that is significantly set back from the...
The Felt Electric building, on the 100 South block of Regent Street, has had many lives. The building has served as a brothel, cigar store, home of the Felt Electric Company and attorney's offices. Now the building is poised to be part of a mixed-use boutique hotel...
Salt Lake County District Attorney's will soon have office space of their own. After decades of renting space in nearby offices, Salt Lake County officials broke ground Thursday morning on a new District Attorney building at 35 E. 500 South, directly west of the Scott...
*This post has been updated For the next five weeks one of Salt Lake's most engaging streets will be even more vibrant. The Downtown Alliance has again partnered with Salt Lake City leaders for the second annual Downtown Garden Stroll, a selection of artist-designed...
Across the country rental prices are rising. According to Apartment List, an online rental marketplace, national rental rates have increased 3.2 percent over the same time last year. In Salt Lake, low vacancy rates have led to a 3.4 percent increase in rent over the...
Up until 2014, the middle of the 100 South block of 200 East was a large surface parking lot. In its place is a new parking garage and the under-construction Liberty Crest Apartments. At seven floors, the 177-unit apartment building brings infill and residential to...