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...
Perhaps at this point, changes in rental rates are only newsworthy when rents stabilize or decrease. But as has become the norm for the past few years, residential rents in Salt Lake City continue to increase. According to two recent reports by Apartment List, an...
The Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) wants to hear from the public on plans to spend more than $5 billion in transportation funding. The proposed funding is part of the Draft 2018-2023 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The TIP identifies road, transit,...
Three years and several hundred new residents later, the S-Line Streetcar is going to become a bit more convenient to ride. On Tuesday, local officials announced that two blocks of double track will be built along the streetcar line in South Salt Lake City. "Right...
In a live Facebook feed on Wednesday, Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced her nomination of Sen. Jim Dabakis to represent Salt Lake City on the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) Board of Trustees. “My top priority was finding someone who could represent the people of Salt...
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...
Salt Lake City is Utah's urban center with the largest city population, downtown population and number of city workers. But 15 miles to the south of the capital city, the growing downtown in the suburban city of Sandy has become Salt Lake County's second largest...
Building Salt Lake reported last week above average rising rents in the Salt Lake housing market, but the authors of a new multifamily housing report by real estate research firm, Yardi Matrix, reveal just how significant rental growth in Salt Lake is compared to...
Since 1958, the 90-foot Ritz Classic bowling pin has served as a place-maker for the city of South Salt Lake. This week crews reassembled the iconic sign, which was part of the now shuttered Ritz Classic bowling alley, at its historic home on the 2200 block of State...
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...
It has been over a year since South Salt Lake officials announced that WinCo Foods would open an 85,000-square-foot grocery store on the 2100 South block of State Street as part of The Crossing mixed-use development. But on Monday, representatives from South Salt...