As the woes of the office market continue to populate CRE headlines nationwide, cut-rate building sales and 25% availability rates are raising fewer eyebrows these days. When we last reported on the Salt Lake City metro market’s performance a year ago, vacancy rates...
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Are Salt Lake City Twilight Concerts too big, again, for the Gallivan Center?
Outdoor concert season — and spring for that matter — is just around the corner. Among the most popular mainstays during the warm months is Salt Lake City's Twilight Concert Series, begun in 1998, which has been held in Downtown's Gallivan Center for the last six...
Developers update pitch for apartments next to historic synagogue near Downtown
After a handful of changes, developers are hoping to move forward with a proposal to add over 100 apartment units next to a historic Salt Lake City synagogue to the east of Downtown in Central City. Earlier this week, the Centerville-based J. Fisher Companies...
Rimrock hits Cottonwood Residential with $3.1M lawsuit over Downtown project
Contractors are taking legal action in an attempt to collect millions of dollars they say they’re owed for work on a new apartment building in Downtown Salt Lake City. Three firms have filed liens against Cottonwood Residential, the Brickyard-based developer that has...
Hines buys apartment building in suburban Chicago for record $148M
An affiliate of the Texas-based developer who received a free piece of prime land in the heart of Downtown Salt Lake City for a stalled apartment tower issued a record check for an apartment building in a suburb north of Chicago last week. A Hines affiliate paid $148...
Over 100 affordable housing units delivered in Central City on 500 East
A new six-story development of affordable housing units is officially open to the east of downtown, with units available now and a handful of residents already settled in. The building, located at 144 South 500 East in Central City, is an energy-efficient...
The most popular Building Salt Lake stories of 2024 reflect a region tense over ongoing change
If one thing stayed the same along the Wasatch Front this year, it was the public’s apparent concern for the way things are changing. That’s a clear takeaway from Building Salt Lake’s review of our most popular articles of 2024, as ranked by total readership. We saw...
HOA looks to block new 12-story development in Central City
The HOA for a pair of condo buildings in Downtown Salt Lake City is objecting to a recent Planning Commission vote to give a developer another year to begin construction of a planned mid-rise mass timber building. Owners in the Sampson Altadena condo buildings want...
How’s Salt Lake’s construction boom looking? New inventory on the way, in photos
With a record number of apartments coming online in Salt Lake City in 2025, we thought we'd highlight seven projects under construction. Have a look. 218 West 300 South Apartment building at 218 W 300 S, looking northwest. Photo by Devin Zander | Building Salt Lake We...
Broadway hotel proposal for upzone gets rejected by Planning Commission
A project to transform a 40-year hole in the urban fabric along East 300 South fell short of approval at the Planning Commission this month, one of several recent applications seeking to upzone property to D-1, the city’s most intense category. At 256 E 300 S, owners...
Owners of Snowbird look to rezone Downtown property for new high-rise
A Salt Lake City-based private equity firm submitted plans on Monday to rezone its 2.19 acres of land near Downtown, with high-level plans to replace an office building and surface parking lot with a new skyline-altering high-rise and hundreds of residential...
Developers are wrapping up the Post District: a new neighborhood where one didn’t exist before
Five years after first unveiling their plans to turn a swath of largely vacant and underutilized land southwest of Downtown into a thriving new mixed-use district, Salt Lake City developers are putting the finishing touches on the Post District. On a recent sunny...












