A Salt Lake City developer is pushing to expand a mixed-use corridor along 1700 South, proposing a combination of for-sale townhomes, retail, office space and for-rent housing on parcels near the Foothill Drive interchange. Monterra Capital LLC has filed a zoning...
New townhomes and condos could soon be built in East Bench, as a recent proposal to rezone a handful of parcels near Foothill Drive won approval last Tuesday. Members of the Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously last week to approve an ordinance to rezone parcels...
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I was recently in Durham, North Carolina. Along with my family, we ate outside three times – without trying. We simply walked to a restaurant and asked to sit outside. By contrast, when we got home to Salt Lake City, eating outside required Googling which restaurants...
They bring you the olds, we bring you the news. And this year, we had all kinds of scoops about the trends and developments that are shaping the future of the region, specifically in Salt Lake City. Building Salt Lake readers again showed a strong interest in the...
After clearing out the queue of other changes to zoning districts throughout the city, planners have teed up the next housing topic for discussion and debate: single-family zoning reform. The city recently unveiled its proposal to change the rules for its three...
A proposal for townhomes and condominiums in East Bench cleared one important hurdle in its entitlements journey earlier this month, as the Salt Lake City Planning Commission gave a thumbs up to its rezoning request. The planning commission voted to forward a...
Andy Moffitt, left, moderates a ULI Trends panel that included Chris Byers, right. Photo via Kelli Freshman Photography Mormon Wives, Swig, Crumbl — Utah’s exports have been making waves lately outside of the state. But the inverse is also happening, real estate...
A plan to turn private land on Salt Lake City’s east bench into dedicated trails and open space near H-Rock — plus a handful of single family home plots — is moving forward after it hit a snag just over a year ago. The Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted to...
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...
Local developers are hoping Salt Lake City will agree to rezone three single-family home plots in order to build housing in the East Bench neighborhood. The homes, which are located at 2260, 2270, 2290 E. 1300 South, are currently zoned as R-1-7000. The developers...
Over the last 12 months a well-known general contractor along the Wasatch Front has been experiencing a bevy of lawsuits from subcontractors who are claiming they haven’t been paid for work completed. Rimrock Construction, a Draper-based firm enjoying its third decade...
Salt Lake City’s new two-story, Downtown liquor store isn’t the only new location that the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services has been working on in recent years. The Utah DABS will open its new location at 1615 Foothill Drive next Monday on March 31,...