A group of Salt Lake City residents is hoping a final effort will save the historic Utah Theater from redevelopment into a residential skyscraper. City officials announced Thursday the effort could be on the municipal election ballot in November if volunteers gathered...
Downtown
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...
Can Japantown come back? SLC’s Redevelopment Agency presents its plans for a redesigned street on 100 South
Salt Lake City’s Japantown - from the 1910s to 1950s a bustling ethnic enclave in west Downtown - was decimated in the mid-1960s by Urban Renewal. Where the Salt Palace convention center and the Utah Jazz arena currently stand, all that’s left of historic Japantown...
11-story apartment project on 400 S near Pioneer Park breaking new ground in south Downtown
As if on cue, another south Downtown apartment project is in for design review at the city. The 11-story, 138-unit market-rate building, called BRIX by High Boy Ventures and ajc architects, plans to make a bold statement on .65 acres at 233 West 400 South. This...
In pictures: Salt Lake City’s Downtown is quickly moving south
Three buildings and a handful more proposals promise to dramatically shift the city’s urban footprint south, across several car-centric state roads and out of the Central Business District.
Salt Lake City is having a skyscraper boom. Here’s the next one on the way.
Salt Lake City’s Downtown has long since entered a residential building boom, and we now know details about the next project that will add to the city’s rapidly changing skyline. Retailers in the existing two-story building on the northeast corner of 200 East 300...
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,...
Salt Lake City Hall and the Utah State Capitol skated through the earthquake of March 2020 – but only one is open
The convergence of an earthquake and a pandemic shuttered the gorgeous, historic Salt Lake City & County Building in March, 2020. A handful of broken windows during BLM protests in June contributed to its turn inward. Mayor Mendenhall has no plans to open...
Builders make a pitch for an all-studio rental apartment building Downtown
The Bookbinder on 2nd West would add 115 more units in a 76,000-square-foot, seven-story building. If built, it would continue the ongoing rush of residential construction Downtown.
Developers want to replace single-family office space with new infill housing in Central City neighborhood
There’s no slowing the incoming residential tide in the Downtown area of Salt Lake City, with another project proposed on a small site of 400 East, two doors down from another. The aQui apartments would bring 60 new market-rate rental units to a 0.22-acre site just...
Developers share details on the building that will replace the historic Utah Theater and alter Salt Lake City’s skyline
The Main Street Apartments will continue the ongoing and rapid addition of housing into Salt Lake City’s Downtown core, adding 400 apartments in a 31-story building that’s just shy of 400 feet tall.
Another mixed-use building on its way to 200 East as developers knock on doorstep of Broadway retail
At just over 100 feet tall, Moda Luxe will be among the taller buildings east of State Street, with space for two ground-floor restaurants.












