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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...
In Utah, the state legislature has written a series of restrictions on where bars and clubs can be located, apparently reflecting a fear that alcohol being sold inside businesses near parks, public facilities, churches, or schools will do harm to children. The only...
Ivory Development and the Ivory Foundation have walked away from a deal to purchase the land west of 2200 West and north of the Salt Lake City airport from the Swaner family. Ivory was hoping to build a “Research Park West” on the 440-acre parcel, which surrounds...
The Swaner family - whose distant relatives created the 1200-acre nature preserve in Snyderville Basin north of Park City - has decided to sell for development 439 acres of open space it owns on the southeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake. Ivory Development,...
Salt Lake City’s Department of Economic Development recently completed a prospectus for a Life Sciences Corridor that may boost demand for office space Downtown. Downtown offerings have always enjoyed an urban advantage, providing amenities, culture, and transit which...
Now that the Salt Lake City Council reached a compromise with state leaders on the proposed inland port, Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski is looking to new zoning regulations to mitigate the environmental impacts of new development in the city's far west...
After months of back and forth discussions, Salt Lake City and state leaders, have reached a tentative compromise for the controversial inland port bill that state leaders passed in the final hours of the 2018 Utah Legislature Session. On Monday, July 16, several Salt...
Envision Utah has a long history of bringing diverse groups together to find consensus solutions for some of the state’s greatest challenges. Its hallmark has always been the inclusion of various stakeholders in its discussions. Unfortunately, the organization broke...
Friction between leaders in blue cities with leaders in their respective red home states is not uncommon and is indicative of America's larger urban/rural divide. But Utah is one of the most urbanized states in the country. While rural demands and urban demands...
As Salt Lake City and state officials work toward a compromise on the management of the Northwest Quadrant and proposed inland port, one of the quadrant's largest landowners is ready to move forward with the area's first large private development. On Wednesday,...