UTA and one of the country’s highest-rated commuter apps, Transit, recently announced a 5-year “cooperative agreement” to share data and enhance rider support. Mobility Lab named Transit its best app for public transit commuters in 2018. The iMore website called it...
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...
Responding to a zoning-change request by a property owner at Redwood Road and North Temple, Salt Lake City planners recently recommended to the City Council to allow restaurant/coffee drive-thrus in one of the city’s Transit Station Area (TSA) zones. The zone is...
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...
Dust is newly stirring up on the block directly south of the Arena in west Downtown. The PaperBox Lofts, a project of Clearwater Homes and PEG Development, is clearing its inner block-long site for construction. Rendering of the east facade of the Paperbox Lofts as...
On a recent June afternoon in Salt Lake City, Building Salt Lake captured some of our sidewalk dining + beverage culture. Ginger Street eatery just opened on State and Broadway (300 S.) Photo by Luke Garrott. YoKo Ramen and The Other Place on Broadway near 500 East....
Three modestly-sized residential developments in west Downtown - one under construction, one just approved, and another in preliminary stages - may portend the next wave of multi-family construction in this transitioning area. With the imminent shuttering of the Road...
The partially built eyesore of steel girders and graffiti at 255 S. State in the heart of Downtown Salt Lake City – currently an excavated hole capped in concrete – may soon be resolved. Senior representatives from Chicago-based Brinshore Development, one of the...
Long marked by acres of parking lots and shuttered storefronts, South Downtown seems ripe for a spring. New multi-family buildings, 320,000 square feet of Class A office space, imminent development of the Sears block and the Fleet block - all point toward a maturing...
Map of UTA's planned free circulator bus. The red circles indicate rail replacement locations, while blue lines represent the bus' planned route. Image courtesy UTA. UTA construction on Main Street in the month of May will offer a glimpse into the street’s...
Salt Lake could soon get a three-mile, near-direct route — and possibly longer — for people on bikes riding into and out of downtown on Main Street, thanks in part to money from the county for design work. After years of unsuccessful attempts to get the Utah...
Salt Lake City planners are proposing a new ordinance they hope will lead to the creation of new micro-apartments with shared amenities that could help provide needed housing to people who can’t afford longer-term rentals. Single-room occupancy (SRO) apartments have...