The night after the city council voted to approve Mayor Mendenhall’s revisions to off-street parking regulations for Downtown and the Gateway area this week, the mayor’s planning staff presented to the planning commission a series of exemptions for a $23 million,...
A fire that struck a row of popular bars and restaurants near the heart of Downtown Salt Lake City on Monday night swept through the businesses and destroyed much of the block known as Whiskey Street, Building Salt Lake photos show. Photos by Devin Zander Firefighters...
This is the second and final part of a series about the state of newly built low-income housing buildings after years of rapid building in and around Salt Lake City. To read part one, click here. Affordable housing developers in Salt Lake City currently have an issue...
Peter Corroon has a problem. The longtime affordable housing developer and former Salt Lake County mayor started to notice some of his studio and one-bedroom low-income apartments weren’t leasing nearly as quickly as other projects had before. Whereas new buildings...
A popular Salt Lake City brewery was recently sued by its landlord, who alleged Shades Tap Room violated their lease agreement and fell behind on lease payments for the brewery’s new 1388 S. 300 West location. The brewery denies those claims in court documents, and...
Despite positive absorption and dipping vacancy rates, there’s still an eerie quiet among office developers in the Salt Lake City region. Not so long ago, three developers Downtown had luxury office towers in their site plans. Two of those projects are dead, while the...
Southwest of Downtown Salt Lake City, former industrial blocks are transforming into places people can live, work, and play. Despite major challenges like 10-acre blocks, hostile streets, and lack of infrastructure, formerly scattered developments are starting to knit...
Over two acres of blank space in a hotspot for Salt Lake City residential units is now on the market. Northmarq, a nationwide, full-service commercial real estate firm, recently listed a 2.5-acre parcel of land in the heart of the Hardware District in Fairpark —...
Downtown Salt Lake City’s arts scene has grown in recent years, and it will continue to expand throughout the next year, according to a presentation given to the Salt Lake City Council last week. The Blocks, Downtown’s 40-block arts district that’s now in its...
This story has been made free for all readers. If you would like to help support BSL's independent journalism, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. The bill that took away Salt Lake City’s ability to control many of its own streets stemmed from shadowy...
Not long after creating a new neighborhood, one of Salt Lake City’s most noteworthy recent developments has shored up its future with new financing. Walker & Dunlop, one of the largest commercial real estate finance firms in the country, announced earlier...
Designers and developers: Salt Lake City’s design review standards look to change in the near future. Super-long facades may be on the way out. On Tuesday, members of the City Council heard a briefing on potential changes to the design review process, which could lead...