As the woes of the office market continue to populate CRE headlines nationwide, cut-rate building sales and 25% availability rates are raising fewer eyebrows these days. When we last reported on the Salt Lake City metro market’s performance a year ago, vacancy rates...
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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...
Thanks to the Sandy and Draper city councils, Salt Lake City will soon have even more revenue to fund transit expansion and road repairs. On Tuesday both councils joined councils representing Salt Lake City, Midvale, Millcreek, Murray, South Jordan, South Salt Lake...
For decades Utah's suburban communities have led the state's population growth but new population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show a shift toward urban living as Salt Lake City led the state in most new residents last year. According to estimates released...
After the last selection proved controversial, Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski has decided to look more locally for the next Chief Operating Officer of the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA). Today Mayor Biskupski announced the selection of Danny Walz...
The Salt Lake suburbs continue to grow at a faster rate than the capital city, but according to new census data, the gap is narrowing as last year the city's population grew at nearly twice the rate than in previous years. On Thursday the U.S. Census Bureau released...
The Salt Lake City urban area is in a historically unique position. Like most cities in the country, Salt Lake's population began to drop after the completion of the interstate made suburban living more appealing. Utah's capital city is still the state's largest job...
Despite construction cranes and hundreds of new residential units added to the market in the past year, rents in Salt Lake City continue to climb. According to a recent market report by Apartment List, an online rental marketplace, rents in Salt Lake City increased...
A decade ago, Midvale's burgeoning commercial park was a dead zone, a brownfield that for decades housed lead and copper smelters that not only exacerbated air quality but left toxins in the soil that would take years to clean up. It took decades for the city to go...