Members of Utah’s Senate leadership are in talks with Salt Lake City leaders over a bill that would temporarily strip the capital city of its ongoing efforts to build safer streets, as neighborhood groups mounted their own campaigns to fight the state encroachment....
A bill that would allow Salt Lake County tax money to go toward the renovation of the Salt Palace Convention Center as part of ongoing efforts to keep the Delta Center in the capital city and revitalize a dead section of Downtown advanced out of Utah Senate committee...
A New York asset management firm is buying a local investment group that played a large part in financing and creating local development projects like the Post District, and is among the largest owners of multifamily buildings in the country. Apollo Global Management...
In a surprise amendment to a bill that quickly passed the Senate on Thursday, the Utah Senate moved to temporarily take away Salt Lake City’s authority to plan its own streets. The bill, SB195, was amended shortly before passing the Senate and being sent to the House....
Representatives from America First Credit Union (AFCU) ran into a wall this week during a briefing at the Salt lake City Council, not unlike the concrete facade of the five-story parking garage it's proposing to build at 451 S. Denver St. (450 E.) in Central City. ...
The Salt Lake City Council gave an early blessing in favor of essentially ditching its single-family zoning in favor of allowing up to fourplexes to be built in much of the residential land across town. The council took a straw poll vote at a hearing Tuesday that...
Two influential members of the Salt Lake City Planning Commission told city staffers a proposal to merge two multifamily zones wasn’t ready for primetime this week, fearing the concept as written would lead to collateral damage and new buildings that are out of scale...
A Utah House committee approved a bill this week that would begin to add incentives to cities in the hopes that they would stop blocking the construction of higher density housing and affordable, for-sale units. House Bill 37 was unanimously approved during a...
An analysis of federal funding awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, has revealed that the State of Utah performed poorly in obtaining funding from...
A Utah House committee punted on two bills that its sponsor believes would help address the state’s ongoing housing shortage, despite support from the governor's office. The bills, HB 88 and HB 90, were presented to the Utah House Political Subdivisions Committee in a...
The Salt Lake City Council got a preview Tuesday of what the city’s new, consolidated mixed-use zoning code would look like, complete with tweaks in code that could allow for taller buildings and fewer approvals needed before construction. The consolidation...
Salt Lake City’s old Fleet Block, in redevelopment limbo for well over a decade, may be finally beginning its transformation. In its first Budget Amendment of the year, the Salt Lake City Council is about to approve a request from the Department of Community and...