When Smith Entertainment Group unveiled its plans for its future Downtown district this month, Ryan Smith pointed to Japantown Street as one of the biggest changes coming. "We're removing these 400 feet of loading docks and we're replacing it with retail, with office,...
Six Ridge Partners, the Cottonwood Heights real estate investment firm formerly known as Dakota Pacific, has lined up joint venture equity for a 217-unit apartment building in Bluffdale. JLL Capital Markets announced Thursday that its equity advisory team arranged...
The family behind Cross E Ranch, the fall festival farm on the Jordan River at Salt Lake City's far north end, has asked the city to rezone about 65 acres of the property for multifamily housing. The application asks the city to rezone roughly 40 acres to RMF-30 and...
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission on Wednesday forwarded a positive recommendation to the City Council on Expanding Housing Options, the city's most significant rewrite of its single-family zoning rules in more than 30 years. It passed unanimously. The proposal,...
Two well-known local development companies announced on Tuesday that they had partnered on a new venture that seeks to build more for-sale options across all housing types. Kensington Home Company will target infill urban locations throughout the population centers...
Salt Lake City’s District 4 is now a vacant seat, as city officials announced Council Member Eva Lopez Chavez has been kicked out her seat after determining she no longer lived within the district she represents. The change means a key seat on the council — one that...
A project that seeks to bring deeply affordable housing options to Central City is back after the nonprofit developer reworked the plan to lean on the city's density incentives to add more units. First Step House, a local nonprofit that provides residential treatment...
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I was recently in Durham, North Carolina. Along with my family, we ate outside three times – without trying. We simply walked to a restaurant and asked to sit outside. By contrast, when we got home to Salt Lake City, eating outside required Googling which restaurants...
Investing in Downtown Salt Lake City will continue to be a priority for Mayor Erin Mendenhall, as she emphasized the Central Business District’s importance both in the near future and beyond. Though some core ideas have been changed. And along with those stated...
Sugar House is finally on the map. That is, if you’re a fan of the high-end, fast-casual salad restaurant chain Sweetgreen, which is on its way toward solidifying Sugar Alley’s status as an anchor on the neighborhood’s main street. Sweetgreen is a publicly traded...
After shifting plans for a prominent site in the Central 9th neighborhood, Cole West is shoring up financing to build a mixed-use, affordable housing project on 900 South. Construction is slated to begin in Q4 of this year for the Amelia, a 144-unit affordable housing...
They bring you the olds, we bring you the news. And this year, we had all kinds of scoops about the trends and developments that are shaping the future of the region, specifically in Salt Lake City. Building Salt Lake readers again showed a strong interest in the...