As the luxury Downtown Salt Lake apartment market softens for investors, it would seem increasingly risky business to be bringing new top-class residential product to the market. Unless, perhaps, those luxury living spaces were furnished, hoping to undercut...
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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...
UDOT officials faced severe pushback from west siders last week for the agency’s scaled-down plans for I-15 reconstruction and widening through Salt Lake City. UDOT is now making a series of promises to residents which include keeping the widening within the current...
In our recent Downtown construction update in pictures, we left out the Downtown-adjacent Guadalupe and Marmalade neighborhoods. Here's a look at some of the big projects that promise to transform the area. We first focus on the Harvest at Marmalade, which completes...
A project that was subject to intense backlash among groups who saw it as displacement has been altered and is now back for review by the city. The Kozo House Apartments once sought to bring 356 units in a building made up entirely of studio apartments and...
As the calendar turns to August, here's a look at the current state of some of the active project sites in Downtown Salt Lake City. DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0633.JPGDCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0638.JPG Liberty Sky and 95 State. Photos by Luke Garrott 255 S. State - on the block to the...
In a city increasingly marked by concrete podium and wood-frame buildings, a new construction technique is coming to town that may help change the landscape. Mass timber is cheaper and less environmentally harmful than concrete and steel. Carbon dioxide emissions from...
Development-relevant actions by Salt Lake City government in March brought some welcome changes as well as news that several blossoms won't be seen until next year. Here's our review. March city council actions •Approved (unanimously) the Coachman’s restaurant...
Vocal neighbors largely concerned about fears over lack of parking didn’t sway a Planning Commission that on Wednesday approved two projects to add density to the Guadalupe and western Sugar House neighborhoods. The commission approved the Izzy South and Kozo House...
The North Temple Bridge-Guadalupe community is about to get a sizable new member. At 200 North and 600 West, Modal Living is proposing a 356-unit, mixed-use, all-studio, podium-plus-five building called Kozo House. The dorm-style development’s units are all 378...
The North Temple transit corridor continues to see transformative development. Here are three projects that are contributing to a changing west side in Salt Lake City. Rx Cribs, the old Biomat plasma center, at NW corner of 600 West and North Temple looking west....