A lot of development is current and coming to Salt Lake City's Central 9th neighborhood. Home to the 900 South TRAX station, numerous food + beverage options, and instant access to Downtown, Central 9th's advantages are many. Those assets - and the city's form-based...
The reason more affordable housing isn’t being built is due to scarcity of investment capital, not scarcity of demand or return, say some of Salt Lake’s premier affordable housing developers. Without more affordable housing we are creating a future where only the...
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...
CW Urban held a ground-breaking ceremony on Friday for a unique residential project in Salt Lake City’s Central Ninth. It will include adaptive reuse of the Taffy Town candy factory at 55 West 800 South, attached to a new 6-story condominium building. The for-sale...
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...
After expansion under the Obama Administration and previous regimes at UTA, new passenger rail projects along the Wasatch Front seem all but dead. A UTA Board claiming it has no money for capital projects, slim inclusion in regional plans, a reoriented redevelopment...
The Central Ninth neighborhood has become one of the city's biggest success stories in neighborhood revitalization. The neighborhood is attracting both public and private investment resulting in hundreds of new residential units and dozens of new retail and dining...