Developers are adding thousands of badly needed affordable housing units to Salt Lake City, but not in every neighborhood, and not only on the west side. New multi-family developments that are either partially or entirely affordable to people earning less than the...
Building Salt Lake checks in with live construction projects around the city we've been following. All photos by Luke Garrott. In the Depot District, CW Urban's rental project The Beverly (45 S 600 W) and Centro Civico Mexicano's Casa Milagros (145 S 600 W) senior...
Salt Lake City’s Marmalade neighborhood will continue its rise from a district filled with beautiful — if dilapidated — single-family homes and warehouses to one filled with mid-density housing as one developer in particular continues to target the neighborhood for...
The reason more affordable housing isn’t being built is due to scarcity of investment capital, not scarcity of demand or return, say some of Salt Lake’s premier affordable housing developers. Without more affordable housing we are creating a future where only the...
Garbett Homes is looking to build another housing project in the Marmalade neighborhood west of Capitol Hill. The developer, who recently completed a high-end housing development on nearby Capitol Hill, has proposed building 25 single-family attached townhomes at 430...
Editors’ note: Candidates are listed in the order which they returned our survey. Two candidates, Richard Goldberger and Rainer Huck, didn’t respond to the survey. Most candidates running to become Salt Lake City’s next mayor aren’t likely to support policies that...
It’s now a perennial headline for most of the Wasatch Front, so here it is again: despite a flurry of development, rent has gone up again in most cities in the Salt Lake City metro area. And while rent climbed by 4.6% in Ogden, that city remains the cheapest place to...
ClearWater Homes and Salt Lake City’s Redevelopment Agency threw a party this week to announce the final piece in developing a challenging site in the Marmalade. This unique neighborhood west of Capitol Hill has been transitioning for decades, and many see this...
Salt Lake City planners are proposing a new ordinance they hope will lead to the creation of new micro-apartments with shared amenities that could help provide needed housing to people who can’t afford longer-term rentals. Single-room occupancy (SRO) apartments have...
As part of their Summer Planning Series, the Salt Lake City Planning Department is inviting residents to tour the Marmalade Neighborhood on July 30 to learn how the city’s zoning addresses new development located in existing neighborhoods. Under the planning series,...
For the past three decades, Capitol West neighbors have worked to encourage new development in their community and finally, the fruits of their labor are starting to show. Construction is booming in the Marmalade/West Capitol neighborhood, with a wide variety of...
Despite the wintry look in the images, the generally mild winter has been a boon to construction throughout the Wasatch Front and significant progress has been made on three missing middle projects in the Marmalade neighborhood. The three projects will add a combined...