After months of discussions, debates and neighborhood infighting, the Salt Lake City Council has begun moving toward a long-awaited update to its single-family zoning code after years of growing unaffordability and families fleeing the city for the suburbs. The...
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City says Intermountain’s ground-floor plans for its ‘urban hospital’ violate elements of its development agreement
Intermountain Healthcare has been successful in getting most of its way so far on regulatory issues with Salt Lake City for its 8-acre hospital project in south Downtown. An upzone to D-1, a zoning text change to allow hospitals, and a development agreement signed...
Fairpark rezone pitch would add townhomes at current LDS Church site
A site plan of a proposed townhome development at 660 N. Redwood Road. Image via Think Architecture A new rezone proposal could add townhome units at the edge of the Fairpark neighborhood along Redwood Road. Last week, developers filed a proposal to rezone a former...
SEG released hype images for a new Downtown district. Here’s what’s in the actual plan
When it released updated renderings showing plans for a mixed-use space east of the Delta Center earlier this month, Smith Entertainment Group was sharing updated plans that still aren't final. The actual work will be governed by a master development agreement that is...
Lehi apartment complex sells for $130M in record Utah County deal
A 440-unit apartment complex in Lehi has sold for $130 million, in what brokers say is the largest widely marketed multifamily sale on record in Utah County. Weidner Apartment Homes bought Seasons of Traverse Mountain, at 4200 N. Seasons View Drive, from Mountain...
DR Horton seeks to shift Skye townhomes downhill to Timp Highway
The nation's largest homebuilder wants to move a block of townhomes planned for the hillsides of its Skye development in north Lehi down to land along Timpanogos Highway, a change that would let more housing go into the master plan's mixed-use district without...
Can Utah continue its economic growth amid a water shortage?
From left: Dr. Brenda Bowen, Ben Abbott, Joel Ferry and Ty McCutcheon during the ULI Utah 2026 Trends conference in Salt Lake City. Photo courtesy of Kelli Freshman Two large problems facing Utah are rising costs for housing and the drying Great Salt Lake. While the...
SLC Council approves rezone of Smith’s Ballpark site, teeing up redevelopment
A rendering for the adaptive reuse for part of Smith's Ballpark. Image via Perkins & Will Residents of Ballpark saw a major step Tuesday toward seeing sweeping changes to its namesake structure. The Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously on a proposal to rezone...
SLC Multifamily: Vacancy could tick up, but market could tighten into 2027
The Wasatch Front’s multifamily housing market could get a little worse before it gets better. Mark Jensen, managing director at Northmarq Multifamily, said his group’s latest Q3 report forecasts that vacancy in the Salt Lake City market will increase by the end of...
Developer pumps brakes on project to add workforce housing at five-acre site
The plan to build housing, shops and a public gathering space on Park City's long-vacant "five-acre site" is going back to the City Council before planning commissioners take a final vote. Brinshore Development, the city's development partner, asked to postpone a...
Affordable Chicago Street project grows taller and adds larger units to the mix
A 100% affordable apartment building planned for Chicago Street in Poplar Grove has new plans that decrease the number of units but more than double the number of two-bedroom units. Great Lakes Capital, an Indiana-based developer, filed plans with Salt Lake City for...
LIHTC still pencils despite shaky conditions. ‘We’re so overbuilt in Salt Lake City.’
Developers of new, low-income housing developments in Salt Lake City seem to be hanging on, despite a soft multifamily market, slow lease-up periods, ongoing concessions and lingering questions over whether distress is coming to subsidized projects. Plans for new...












