Nearly a decade of planning and surviving the Great Recession, a downtown district is finally beginning sprout in South Salt Lake. Last week Mayor Cherie Wood announced that the city has secured an anchor for its downtown, WinCo Foods will open an 85,000-square-foot...
The apartment boom continues in Salt Lake. A few thousand residential units are actively under construction, yet rents are rising. For example, rent for a one bedroom apartment at the newly-opened Encore Apartments, near 500 East on 400 South, starts at $1299,...
Residents of the Wasatch Front, Utah's largest urban area, overwhelming prefer the suburban lifestyle according to the results of a newly released study by the Utah Chapter of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). For Wasatch Front residents, the status quo is embraced as...
The S-Line streetcar has spurred over $400 million of development in the Sugar House Business District surrounding the terminus of the streetcar line. Now nearly two years since the streetcar officially opened, economic development brought by the S-Line has...
Large classrooms and limited resources are not the only obstacles Utah K-12 teachers face. According to new research from Zillow, an online real estate marketplace, teachers in Utah's largest and third largest metro areas are the least likely in the U.S. to be able...
Saturday, September 12th marked the start of the annual Eat Local Week, a week long state-wide program that promotes local food and agriculture. The event is intended to celebrate Utah’s agricultural heritage while increasing the connection Utahns feel towards the...
It has been over nine months since the city of Sandy unveiled The Cairns, a 20-year master plan for the City's downtown. The 1100 acre city center plan area is the City's second attempt and creating a urban center. The Cairns plan area is bounded by 9000 South to...
Since local governments and government agencies can’t actively campaign for Proposition 1, a local option sales tax for transportation funding, local leaders are turning to education campaigns to inform residents of the potential impact of new revenue to pay for various local transportation needs.
Suburban communities continued to lead the population growth along the Wasatch Front, while Salt Lake City experienced a slight population decline, according to the 2014 population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Suburban, South Jordan's...
For the past year Jyson Prince has called the Great Salt Lake home. Prince and his wife are part of a small community of sailors who live aboard their boats at the Great Salt Lake Marina. But with the Great Salt Lake at near historic lows, living on the water is no...
Utah doesn't haven't a reputation as alcohol friendly, but a recent insurgence of local breweries and distilleries could change that. In March, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (DABC) issued a manufacturing license to Utah's newest distillery, Distillery...
The Salt Lake City Council took the first step Tuesday in helping to get a county-wide sales tax increase for transportation on the November ballot. The passing of HB0362, adopted by the Utah State Legislature in March, allows local municipalities to fund transit...