As Salt Lake grows, so does its food scene as 2018 is on track to be a very significant year for the city's culinary offerings. On Thursday, representatives from The Gateway announced that SkinnyFats, a Las Vegas-based “Live Healthy, Live Happy” restaurant, will open...
The construction of several apartment buildings and a hotel is making progress in downtown Salt Lake City's westside. These projects are all within a block of 200 West and 200 South and will bring an additional 269 apartments, 262 hotel rooms, and a small amount of...
With a revised feasibility study and potentially new branding, officials from the city, Downtown Alliance and GSBS Architects updated the Salt Lake City Council acting as the Board of Directors for the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA) the status of a...
There are three apartment projects that will add over 600 residential units are coming along just east of downtown Salt Lake City. Each project is in a different stage of construction. Of the three, the closest to completion is the Liberty BLVD which is now leasing....
The area surrounding the intersection of 200 South and 300 West is continuing its evolution from a dead zone to a bridge between the downtown core and the Gateway District. Development partners, Clearwater Homes and Peg Development, are ready to expand their presence...
Less than one-third extremely low-income Utah residents have access to income-restricted housing. That is according to a National Low Income Housing Coalition's (NLIHC) March housing report that found that Utah has 31 affordable housing units for every 100 extremely...
The site of an aging motel will soon be the home of downtown Salt Lake's next affordable housing development. Demolition work has started on the Royal Garden Inn at the 100 West block of 600 South to make way for construction of the Garden Lofts Apartments, a...
Six years ago, city officials were celebrating the groundbreaking of the State Street Plaza, a large, mixed-use affordable housing project in the heart of downtown. After a series of missteps by the project's developers, La Porte Group, the project went bankrupt...
The Salt Lake Convention Center Hotel is still alive, although finalization of the project is still some months away. That was the message that Erin Litvack, Deputy Mayor of County Services & Chief Administrative Officer for Salt Lake County, gave to the Downtown...
A stalled commercial project will get new life as a residential tower in downtown Salt Lake. The Boyer Company has partnered with Cowboy Properties to develop Liberty Sky at 151 South State Street, the site of Boyer's now-canceled 151 office tower. “This is a great...
For years the 200 West block of 200 South was a dead zone, dominated by surface parking, a storage facility and several vacant buildings. Over the next few years, both the north and south side of the block will be revitalized with the first phase opening this spring....
Visitors to downtown Salt Lake City will have a new resource. On Thursday, city officials and representatives from the Downtown Alliance announced the Downtown Ambassador Program, a program that will deploy as many as a dozen ambassadors to major pedestrian...