More than two years after it received approval to move ahead, the Housing Authority of Salt Lake City announced on Thursday it was breathing new life into its stalled multi-family project in the city’s Ballpark neighborhood. The Book Cliffs Lodge, which has been...
Utah’s homelessness and housing crises are putting pressure on Salt Lake City to move forward with a policy that would expand the locations where developers and the state could build “micro-apartments” despite lingering questions over geographical inequity. The...
Salt Lake City on Tuesday released the results of a study that largely focused on the possible traffic impacts of moving the I-15 ramp at 900 South and ignored the impacts on the city and neighborhoods negatively affected by the ramp. Rather than study the potential...
Salt Lake City planners are putting the finishing touches on what will essentially become the rules for what is set to become an urban extension of Downtown. Long an underutilized and recently vacant site that’s filled with redevelopment potential, the City Council...
UTA’s “Change Day” is upon us, where the agency annually tunes up its routes and schedules. This August’s changes are notable especially in Salt Lake City and the I-15 Tech Corridor near Lehi. Salt Lake City will see enhanced service on four (mainly) east-west...
Editors’ note: Candidates are listed in the order which they returned our survey. Two candidates, Richard Goldberger and Rainer Huck, didn’t respond to the survey. Most candidates running to become Salt Lake City’s next mayor aren’t likely to support policies that...
For a half-century, an outsized piece of highway infrastructure has divided Salt Lake City’s northern Ballpark neighborhood. The city is now wrapping up a study looking at what would happen if the ramp were removed. The study is expected to focus largely on the...
It’s now a perennial headline for most of the Wasatch Front, so here it is again: despite a flurry of development, rent has gone up again in most cities in the Salt Lake City metro area. And while rent climbed by 4.6% in Ogden, that city remains the cheapest place to...
Developers have quietly lined up projects that will add new life to an underdeveloped neighborhood in the south end of Salt Lake City’s Ballpark neighborhood in the coming months. Several new housing developments are already nearing completion. Others will enter the...
Salt Lake City planners are proposing a new ordinance they hope will lead to the creation of new micro-apartments with shared amenities that could help provide needed housing to people who can’t afford longer-term rentals. Single-room occupancy (SRO) apartments have...
Despite a negative recommendation from the Salt Lake City Planning Commission, the Salt Lake City Council appears poised to approve a zoning text amendment to allow for an additional floor in building height for a proposed mixed-use residential development in the...
Armed with $10 million reserved for affordable housing projects, on Tuesday, October 10 the Salt Lake City Council acting as the Board of Directors for the city's Redevelopment Agency RDA Board approved a total of $8.5 million in housing loans to create 570 total new...