Subtle changes and clarity provided to the Planning Commission got a seven-story residential development back on track in the Granary District. The pitch for Pacific Yard had been delayed at the commission last month over last-minute concerns about what landscaping is...
Ongoing Development
In Pictures: Downtown construction update – see the latest from the air and the street
For those readers who haven't been to Downtown Salt Lake City in a bit, we spent last week catching up with the construction progress of ongoing projects we've been covering. From the Depot District on 600 W and I-15, to 500 E in East Central, the flurry of activity...
Hit by massive drill collapse, Astra Tower will be delayed. But for how long?
The operator of a massive drill rig that collapsed on the site of Utah’s future tallest skyscraper is recovering, and a team is investigating both the cause and the potential delay that Tuesday night’s accident will have on the construction of Astra Tower. The...
Box 500 shipping container affordable housing in the Granary – has construction stopped?
A pioneering project attempting to deliver affordable, low-carbon, energy-efficient units in south Downtown seems to have gone dark, according to neighbors. Not so, says the developer. Financing is in the bag. Interior work is continuing. Final exterior paint is...
Design review a good requirement? Two Downtown projects on a long-forlorn block ask the city.
Two residential projects in “a sea of asphalt” in South Downtown will be bringing some beneficial urban design and density in and around 400 South and 200 West in Salt Lake City. But will they be enough for this part of the city to overcome I-15 to the west and...
Builders are at work adding over 1,400 new homes in Sugar House
It would take an area roughly the size of the Downtown core to fit the number of homes that are being added to one block in Sugar House.
Skyscrapers, affordability, Downtown expansion: Here are the stories that interested Building Salt Lake readers most in 2021
We brought you trend stories about the incoming boom of residential towers in Downtown Salt Lake City. The changing look and feel of the city's urban core. The buildings lost and the ongoing tension around preserving city history while adding density with new...
In pictures: Granary District grows footprint north as Post District project begins to rise
The southwestern corner of the Post District project, at 600 S and 400 W. Notice the awkwardly placed billboard...not the only one in and around the neighborhood. Photo by Luke Garrott. We take a look at ongoing projects in the Granary District along 700 South, as...
Intermountain Healthcare has purchased the Sears Block – LDS Hospital in Avenues to be redeveloped?
Intermountain Healthcare has purchased about eight acres of land in the center of Salt Lake City. At 745 S State, the land had been home to the Sears department store, which closed several years ago before it was sold to a developer who had been working on building...
Coachman’s redevelopment not ready for primetime, Planning Commission says
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission effectively rejected an attempt by the owner of the now-shuttered Coachman’s diner to build a mixed-use development with for-sale housing in one gargantuan building on State Street. Mike Nikols, a member of the family who owns...
High material costs delay the construction of new, affordable townhomes in Liberty Wells
A builder looking to build missing middle for-sale housing on a now-vacant lot in Liberty Wells has been stalled by the high cost of materials caused in part by the pandemic. Peter Corroon, the developer behind the seven-unit townhome project in the city’s Liberty...
New mixed-income apartment building nearing completion on site of former motel in Liberty Wells
Builders are putting the finishing touches onto a mixed-income apartment building that replaces a former crime-ridden motel on State Street. Capitol Homes will bring 93 new residences — two-thirds of them rent-restricted — to the Liberty Wells neighborhood. The...












