A rendering of the new downtown entertainment district. Image via Smith Entertainment District The plans are finally here. After years of waiting, the Smith Entertainment Group has released details of its new entertainment district coupled with new renderings and...
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City approves $7 million in loans for housing, retail in Ballpark, Liberty Wells
A rendering of the proposed mixed-use project at 1345 S. Jefferson St. in Ballpark. Image via Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency and Abstract Development Group New developments are in the pipeline across Salt Lake City, and the city’s Community Reinvestment...
Salt Lake City to consider selling $12.2M of Rio Grande District land for $2.5M
Salt Lake City is considering a proposal to sell over two acres of its land for an 80 percent discount on its appraised value. Members of the Salt Lake City Council will consider a proposal Tuesday afternoon that could allow for the sale of 2.33 acres of land in the...
Impact fees to nearly triple in Salt Lake City
The price that developers pay to connect to city utilities will nearly triple over the next two years in Salt Lake City. The City Council, following the recommendations of third-party studies voted this week to raise the costs to hook up to the city’s potable water...
Hooper approves Stuart Adams’ Smith’s-anchored development
The Hooper City Council has approved a development agreement for Hooper Crossing, the Smith's-anchored shopping center and housing project led by outgoing Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams. The agreement comes with more than 20 conditions that the council wrote...
There’s a glut of studios and one-bedrooms in SLC. So why are student housing complexes popping up?
The Montaire North student housing complex in Sugar House, looking southwest, in June 2025. Photo by Devin Zander | Building Salt Lake While multi-family residential real estate in Salt Lake City continues to lag, one aspect of the market seems to be going vertical. ...
Rose Park mixed-use project gets SLC Planning Commission approval
A rendering of the mixed-use La Esquina project along 1000 North in Rose Park. Image via Uncommon Architects. Rose Park could see a new development in the coming months, as a mixed-use development pitched for the neighborhood recently gained city approval. The Salt...
SLC moving ahead with Leonardo renovation plan for office space, youth services
Work could begin in the coming months to overhaul the former Leonardo into offices for Salt Lake City staff. City officials recently filed a commercial building permit application to remodel parts of the old library building and prepare it to house offices for...
Murray charts an urban future for the 245 acres around its transit hub
Murray's planning division is asking the City Council to adopt a development vision for the 245 acres around Murray Central Station, an area long kept largely vacant due in part to its designation as a superfund site. The plan envisions bringing life to the site...
Rowland Hall’s Lincoln Street campus to be sold to student housing developer
The Rowland Hall campus near 9th & 9th is under contract to a developer that primarily builds apartments designed for college students living off-campus, Building Salt Lake has learned. The activity is a signal that the brick building on Lincoln Street stretching...
Retail in the Salt Lake metro is tighter than anywhere in the West
Retail developers across the Salt Lake City metro added 185,000 square feet of space in the first six months of 2026, the lowest January-to-June total on record, according to a third quarter report from Marcus & Millichap. Last year, developers added more than 1.3...
Ogden picks Giv Group to convert historic Forest Service building into housing
Ogden's Redevelopment Agency has chosen Giv Group to redevelop the former U.S. Forest Service Building, a 1930s Art Deco landmark in the city's East Central neighborhood, into a mix of Weber State University creative space and affordable housing. The RDA board voted...












