Salt Lake City leaders think they’ve found the partnership that will finally break the development deadlock on their properties in the Depot District in west Downtown. An innovation district - owned, leased out, programmed and managed by the University of Utah - is...
Depot District
Two projects in Depot District – Gateway amplify the need for the city to finish its new parking ordinance
Salt Lake City’s new off-street parking ordinance - how much parking developers are required to build given their land use and location - will be getting its final look by the city council later this spring and summer. The reform may have significant...
We now know what will replace Salt Lake City’s former homeless shelter Downtown
A seven-story, 210-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail space will be built on the site of a former Downtown homeless shelter that had capacity for more than 1,000 people, according to details obtained by Building Salt Lake ahead of a design review by the...
The property where the Road Home homeless shelter once stood has been sold to a local developer
The property that became ground zero for a state law enforcement-led affront on people experiencing homelessness in Downtown Salt Lake City has been sold to a local developer, a year after the state demolished the shelter that long sat on the property. The sale,...
Another market-rate project continues the residential explosion in the west Gateway area
The Depot District north of 200 South continues its residential explosion with The Huxley, a 258-unit market-rate project to be built at the NW corner of 100 South and 600 West. In an area known for its warehouses, railyards, nightlife, and transient population,...
City moves to create a plaza-like feel in Station Center, aiming to make a splash in the Depot District
Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency presented plans this week for what will be one of its biggest moves in the Depot District since the project area was created in 1998. With only three years left before tax increment ceases to flow with the expiration of the area,...
As COVID rages on, a proposed hotel and social club ask for more time to work things out
Two proposed projects that seek to bring people together Downtown and received early approval have been delayed for up to a year because it’s a tough time to cozy up. The Union Pacific Hotel, a controversial design immediately west of the Union Pacific Railroad...
City Council presses ‘pause’ on RMF-30 rewrite and G-MU spot-zone height increase
Last night the Salt Lake City Council deferred action on two land-use items we've been following. The first, a zoning petition from a developer to raise heights in a portion of the Depot District zoned Gateway Mixed Use (G-MU), was postponed, despite the council...
Depot District mixed-use project looks to bridge past and present in a rapidly changing neighborhood
Affordable housing construction across the street. Micro-apartments coming on the corner. New senior housing neighbor on the block about to get its ribbon cut. Gateway Mall mixed-use just steps away. The stage is set in the Depot District for the CINQ, dbUrban...
Where affordable housing is and isn’t being built in Salt Lake City
Developers are adding thousands of badly needed affordable housing units to Salt Lake City, but not in every neighborhood, and not only on the west side. New multi-family developments that are either partially or entirely affordable to people earning less than the...
Affordable housing to replace Bricks club building in Depot District
At 200 South and 600 West, a key axis of Salt Lake City’s west Downtown, only one corner has an active use. The Depot District warehouse best known as Bricks club, on the southeast at 579 W 200 S, was an LGBTQ-friendly space with independent live music. It was also...
Following the Road Home’s departure, Salt Lake City’s Depot District is taking off
Salt Lake City’s Depot District continues to attract residential developments in a rapid housing shift west of Downtown in the years after the state intervened, dispersing a market for street drugs and evicting the city's main homeless shelter from the neighborhood....












