America's transportation infrastructure is aging and in serious need of repair. According to The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), "the nation faces a $160 billion backlog just to bring public transit and road systems into a state of good repair."...
Suburban sprawl costs the United States over $1 trillion a year according to a new report by LSE Cities and the Victoria Transport Policy Institute. According to the report, sprawl has social and economic costs while increasing per capita land development and...
Air quality concerns drew hundreds to the Utah State Capitol Saturday to demand legislative action in mitigating air pollution along the Wasatch Front.
January in Utah is known for three yearly events: the Sundance Film Festival, the start of the legislative session and winter inversions. A new petition at change.org seeks to influence that latter two events by demanding the relocation of local crude oil...
Salt Lake City is the sixth best-performing large city in the United States according to the 2014 Best-Performing Cities report released this week by the Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank. The report mentioned "an expanding financial and high-tech...
Beer proves very popular in SL City’s first annual list of the year’s top urban development stories.
South Salt Lake City leaders want to create a downtown that is a regional destination. Trent Fargher wants his brewery, Shades of Pale Brewing, to be a catalyst for downtown development. If Fargher is able to fully realize his plans for a full-service brewery, his...
Over five years since plans for a city center focused around signature towers fell apart, the city of Sandy has regrouped and unveiled The Cairns, its new 20-year master plan, that calls for a more modest city center with slightly more diminutive towers at the...
“If you don’t take care of the fundamentals in your society: education, infrastructure and human needs the future is not going to look very bright, especially a future that is getting more and more complicated” said Gochnour.
The Utah Transit Authority broke ground yesterday on its first Transit Orientated Development (TOD) in Sandy near the 10000 South TRAX station. The $46 million first phase of the project, called East Village, includes a 271 unit apartment complex. “The building of...
The S-Line Greenway, a mile-long green space and trail from 500 East to McClelland Street, is officially open. Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, South Salt Lake Mayor Cherie Wood and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams each spoke along with representatives from the...
The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting today that Cottonwood Square, the 57-acre mixed use project being developed at the former Cottonwood Mall site in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City has secured yet another tenant. The Howard Hughes Corp and Larry H. Miller...