While Salt Lake City continues to refine its plans for the future of a massive redevelopment in the Ballpark neighborhood, the city is taking a proactive approach by buying plots of land nearby. The Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (recently rebranded to the...
Ongoing Development
Terraine, a new master planned community in West Jordan, is taking shape
After years in the works, a new master-planned community in West Jordan is becoming a reality. Terraine, located to the west of State Route 111 along Terraine Road, is a 630-acre development that will house around 3,000 units when it’s fully built out along the...
Where’s affordable housing going in Salt Lake City? Check out North Temple
Developers are in the process of building hundreds of low-income housing units near the North Temple corridor, adding to the area’s rapid changes after installing transit and upzoning the land. As of January, over 2,000 federal low-income housing tax credit...
Rimrock hits Cottonwood Residential with $3.1M lawsuit over Downtown project
Contractors are taking legal action in an attempt to collect millions of dollars they say they’re owed for work on a new apartment building in Downtown Salt Lake City. Three firms have filed liens against Cottonwood Residential, the Brickyard-based developer that has...
Hines buys apartment building in suburban Chicago for record $148M
An affiliate of the Texas-based developer who received a free piece of prime land in the heart of Downtown Salt Lake City for a stalled apartment tower issued a record check for an apartment building in a suburb north of Chicago last week. A Hines affiliate paid $148...
Salt Lake’s construction boom, in photos, continued
As 2025 dawns, we wanted to offer a snapshot of current construction in the city, from the street and the sky. Have a look. IMB Adaptive Reuse – 348 E. South Temple Former IBM building office-to-residential conversion, looking south from South Temple. Photo by Devin...
The most popular Building Salt Lake stories of 2024 reflect a region tense over ongoing change
If one thing stayed the same along the Wasatch Front this year, it was the public’s apparent concern for the way things are changing. That’s a clear takeaway from Building Salt Lake’s review of our most popular articles of 2024, as ranked by total readership. We saw...
Will industrial bounce back locally in Q4 and beyond?
While Q4 numbers won’t be known for several months, Industrial/Logistics activity in Q3 2024 underperformed in Salt Lake County, and Q4 might close out a bleak year. Strong numbers for deliveries since 2021 have predictably pushed up vacancy and availability...
Millcreek city center apartment boom: the latest in pictures
Since our last update in April, Millcreek's new city center has continued to take shape throughout 2024. Here are some recent photos from the street and the sky. The Richmond Apartments – 1280 E. Villa Vista Ave Cottonwood Residential’s Richmond, located at 1280 E....
Ogden restaurant closure preceded lawsuits, more closures in Idaho
A shuttered Ogden restaurant was the first in a line of other closures in its chain, as the company is now accused of not paying its vendors and leases in Idaho. Biscuit and Hogs, a restaurant that featured all-day breakfast that encouraged customers to “release...
HOA looks to block new 12-story development in Central City
The HOA for a pair of condo buildings in Downtown Salt Lake City is objecting to a recent Planning Commission vote to give a developer another year to begin construction of a planned mid-rise mass timber building. Owners in the Sampson Altadena condo buildings want...
How’s Salt Lake’s construction boom looking? New inventory on the way, in photos
With a record number of apartments coming online in Salt Lake City in 2025, we thought we'd highlight seven projects under construction. Have a look. 218 West 300 South Apartment building at 218 W 300 S, looking northwest. Photo by Devin Zander | Building Salt Lake We...












