After weeks of delays, city officials have revealed the four sites that will house new homeless resource centers. The sites encompass four neighborhoods in the city: Sugar House, Central City, downtown and Ball Park. City leaders emphasized that the process up until...
A missing middle development is coming to a growing section of the Ballpark neighborhood. On Wednesday, the Salt Lake City Planning Commission approved a Planned Development and Conditional Building and Site Design Review for the Richards Street Condos, a 32-unit...
In Salt Lake City affordable rental units have become increasingly scarce. Salt Lake rents are increasing at one of the fastest rates in the nation. The city's rental vacancy rate is hovering around 3 percent, indicating that the current housing supply is not...
Not every Salt Lake City resident can afford $1,000 per month rent for an one-bedroom apartment. A 2013 City market study estimated that there is an affordable housing gap of over 8,000 units, with 41 percent of households earning less than $35,000 a year....
A cluster of affordable housing is developing in the Ballpark neighborhood, directly southwest of downtown Salt Lake. Construction is well underway on the Taylor Gardens Apartments, a 112-unit affordable housing complex for residents 55 and older. The project at 1800...
The Enclave Apartments are nearly framed out. The development is on the 1400 South block of 300 West, an area dominated by light manufacturing, big-box retailers and fast-food restaurants. The project consists of four, three and four-story buildings with 251...
Salt Lake City and community leaders officially broke ground Tuesday for the Ballpark Apartments, an affordable housing development reserved for residents over the age of 55 years, in the Ballpark neighborhood. "This was a really difficult project to get started,"...
In early 2010, Steve Lufkin was unemployed and living at the Road Home shelter. During that time, Luftkin became a member of Alliance House, a nonprofit "clubhouse model" educational and rehabilitative program for adults with serious and persistent mental illness. ...
With 50 percent of renters spending over 30 percent of their income on housing costs and an estimated affordable housing gap of 8,200 units, there is a significant need for affordable housing in Salt Lake City. The dearth of affordable housing in the city led to a new...
Smith's Ballpark was built twenty years ago with the promise of new development to follow. Two decades later the neighborhood surrounding the ballpark, at the corner of 1300 South and West Temple, is beginning to see that promised revitalization with new projects in...
The Ballpark neighborhood is dominated by suburban-style development: big box retailers, surface parking lots, car dealerships and fast-food restaurants. The area is ripe for more urban development thanks to its proximity to the freeway, the Ballpark TRAX station at...