Downtown's housing boom continues, as C.W. Urban recently began construction on its next housing project: a six-story, 120-unit for-sale condo building on Broadway, just north of Pioneer Park. C.W. Urban recently broke ground on the building, named The Olive in the...
The Salt Lake City Planning Division is attempting to prepare downtown Sugar House for a future with more sidewalk vitality and less space for cars. Its recent proposal to the city council for updating the business district’s design standards is getting some flak -...
Sugar House has effectively become Salt Lake City’s second downtown, and the quickly urbanizing neighborhood could soon get newly updated design standards to match. While many new buildings in recent years have undergone design scrutiny, the City Council will...
Salt Lake City could have landed it: One of the elusive technology company headquarters that are congregating in the sprawl of Lehi’s Silicon Slopes. All the developer needed was permission to build high enough to suit the company’s desires, and a tech company would...
Cottonwood Residential is currently excavating a key site in East Downtown, preparing to build a 254-unit market-rate rental project spanning an entire city block. Located in a prime area of Downtown – close to transit, culture, bars and restaurants - Cottonwood...
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...
Silicon Slopes’ national reputation continues to shine thanks to numbers released for office growth in the 10-year period from 2008-18. Commercial Café, using Yardi Matrix data, compiled 10 years of numbers for new office construction counting projects 25,000 SF or...
Salt Lake Crossing, a 300 micro-unit and studio rental building in the Hardware District, is being proposed by the area’s master developer, SALT Development. The Salt Lake Hardware project continues its bold rise between the North Temple Bridge Trax/FrontRunner stop...
After over 12 years of plans, studies, and now political challenges, a 7-day-a-week, year-round Downtown public market may be getting traction among key players in the state. The 501(c)(3) Downtown Alliance, which has been running the Downtown Farmers Market in...
The Kearns Building in Downtown Salt Lake City has remained largely unchanged in its 108-year history, yet construction workers on Friday were well underway on renovations that the building’s owners say will ensure it lasts another century. Hines, the private...
There’s a good chance you don’t know where the Post District is. Commuters headed out of Downtown for I-15 may glance at the big billboards as they breeze past 13 acres of vacant land and grey warehouses on their way onto or off of the interstate. Most residents have...
The head of a state office that oversees tax credits for historical buildings said the 100-year-old Utah Theater, slated for demolition and redevelopment, is eligible for tax credits that could help pay for restoration. Amid an apparent lack of ways to pay for the...