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I want to take advantage of Salt Lake City’s new affordable housing law
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How exclusionary zoning created Salt Lake City (and how policymakers are responding)
This piece of analysis was submitted by professional urban planner and Salt Lake City resident Alicia Seeley. Have your opinions and analysis printed by emailing info@buildingsaltlake.com. Sign up to get our free emails in your inbox. Support our endeavor by becoming...
First permit application of 2024: Small office building in 9th and 9th to add extra story for apartments
The first planning permit application of 2024 was filed this week. Normally, we wouldn’t cover such small project. But it’s the first out of the gates. And it may also be indicative of the type of year in development we’re going to have. With developers’ capital...
Tap house and wine bar – with a basement arcade – seeks approval at 1100 E. and Kensington
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REGISTER NOW: BSL Events to host Missing Middle Housing discussion and tour
Fresh off a successful kickoff event, Building Salt Lake is preparing to host an informational session and tour that's focused on a bygone and misunderstood type of housing known as Missing Middle Housing. Our Missing Middle Housing Discussion and Tour will focus on...
Fresh Market on 1700 South is set to get a major overhaul
[[ Be in the know about urban planning and development in Salt Lake City and support a local source of news by becoming a Building Salt Lake supporting member. ]] Update Dec. 20, 2022: After this story published, employees at the store told Building Salt Lake...
City rejects attempt to bring a new wine bar to the 9th & 9th neighborhood
Want to support a local source of news on what’s happening in your neighborhood? Subscribe to Building Salt Lake. The plethora of residents who want more booze in 9th & 9th are going to have to wait longer after the city rejected a proposal to open a wine bar...
New developers pitch smaller project on tricky parcel near 9th & 9th
A tricky piece of land near the core of the 9th & 9th business improvement district would become home to four large attached homes under the latest proposal for the site. Developers initially wanted to fit 12 townhomes — each of them net-zero — onto a piece of...
Here’s how 9th & 9th landed the most famous Utah whale in 150 years
It didn’t have to be this way. In fact, for a few weeks near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t. That’s when the Salt Lake City Art Design Board, empowered with making recommendations on substantial pieces of public art, debated what look and feel residents...
Telegraph Lofts upzone in 9th+9th approved by city council despite significant opposition from neighborhood
Salt Lake City council members unanimously approved a deal this week that allows Clearwater Homes to build 17 townhomes in four new low-rise structures plus 6 units within the rehabilitated Telegraph Exchange building at 847 South 800 East. Both the planning...
More ‘missing middle’ zoning coming to SLC? City council debates densification with anxiety about displacement and demolition
In a proposal important to developers of small multi-family urban infill, planners from Salt Lake City proposed revisions to the RMF-30 zone to the city council this week. It’s the city’s most recent go at a new residential infill ordinance since pioneering...












