There are over 800 residential units under construction in the downtown core (from North Temple to 400 South and 200 East to I-15). While the most recent similarly sized wave of downtown construction featured the highrises in the City Creek Center, the current wave...
The city's announcement on the four sites for new homeless resource centers may have received mixed reviews, but for many residents and business in the Rio Grande District, the news means that the chaos in their neighborhood may begin to calm down after years of...
The next wave of development in underway in the Central Ninth neighborhood. There are currently six developments under construction within two blocks of 900 South TRAX station on 200 West. Because none of these developments include structured parking, construction...
With its proximity to both downtown and the University of Utah, the Central City neighborhood has been booming. About 500 new residential units have been added to the neighborhood in the past two years with another nearly 400 units under construction. On the 200...
Affordable housing has dominated the local news cycle this week after the Salt Lake City Council acting as the Redevelopment Agency Board of Salt Lake voted Tuesday to allocate $21 million for housing for various income levels and $11.5 million to purchase sites for...
Downtown Salt Lake City has lost many of its historic buildings in the past several decades. As the city embraced the car, buildings were razed to provide more parking downtown. New development in the city has often been at the expense of historic buildings. Not...
Building height in Sugar House has been a contentious issue. As residents worked with the developers of the Sugarmont Apartments to reduce the project's original proposed height of 10-stories, just a block construction was already underway on the neighborhood's first...
The Rio Grande neighborhood's struggle with overwhelmed homeless services and quality of life issues for both temporary and full-time residents have been well documented. City, business and community leaders are anxious to see the neighborhood continue to develop,...
Salt Lake City has changed a lot since 2007. Nine years ago, expectations were high that the city was about to enter into a new era of growth: City Creek had been announced and project proposals began popping up all over the city especially in the Marmalade and Sugar...
When construction of the 24-story office tower, 111 Main, finishes later this year, Salt Lake will have one of its new tallest skyscrapers. But, Salt Lake's skyline would have had another building amongst its tallest had a proposed tower by Samuel Newhouse, the man...
Up until 2014, the middle of the 100 South block of 200 East was a large surface parking lot. In its place is a new parking garage and the under-construction Liberty Crest Apartments. At seven floors, the 177-unit apartment building brings infill and residential to...
When the 4th West Apartment development was first announced by Building Salt Lake (then SL City News) many people were surprised that a developer would want to build a large project in that section of the West Capitol Hill neighborhood adjacent to a rail line and...