The owner of the Utah Jazz and Utah Hockey Club requested a permit this month to build a parking garage at the Delta Center, but the company doesn't have the authority to build it. At least not yet. According to a building permit requested by Smith Entertainment...
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Office numbers for Q1 are in–and Downtown Class A space continues to lead the market
The office apocalypse is fully upon us yet the sparks of a nascent phoenix may be popping. While overall vacancy continues to hover well above 20%, market demand for the last two quarters is giving indications of where future investment in the local SLC-Provo...
Salt Lake City Council approves district for Salt Palace rebuild, Delta Center plaza
Some Salt Lake City Council members didn’t hide their frustrations before voting to approve a public infrastructure district Tuesday night, capping a turbulent few days for city officials over the redevelopment of the Salt Palace and areas outside of the Delta...
State board approves last-minute changes to Salt Palace redevelopment, despite concerns from city
In a last minute move, a state committee approved an updated map of areas included in the taxpayer-funded overhaul of downtown, despite efforts to delay the vote by Salt Lake City officials — who said they didn’t know about the potential changes until the day...
City Council hears latest update on ‘Grand Boulevards’ plan
Two of Salt Lake City’s most car-dense, one-way streets could see an overhaul in the hopes of making the streets more pedestrian- and business-friendly. In a presentation to the City Council on Tuesday, staff members from the council and Transportation Division...
Salt Lake City Council says its hands are tied on Salt Palace overhaul effort
Members of the Salt Lake City Council seem poised to pass a resolution that would create a public infrastructure district to fund an overhaul to the Salt Palace, Delta Center and a new entertainment corridor connecting the two. The PID is part of a years-long...
Office market’s new normal: The ‘flight to quality’ cemented as demand ticks up
Office market analysts seem to be getting their footing after the tectonic shift brought by the pandemic and advances in video conferencing technology. Recent trends seem to be turning into normal operating conditions. Five years on from the COVID shutdowns, workers...
City files upzone request for its 29 properties in the Rio Grande District
Seeking to catalyze a long-languishing redevelopment area in west Downtown, Salt Lake City’s Community Reinvestment Agency (formerly RDA) has officially started the zoning change process to dramatically increase the allowable height on the two blocks directly west of...
Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building to be sold
The U.S. General Services Administration has announced that the Federal Government’s administrative hub in Downtown Salt Lake City is surplus to requirements, and will be sold. The Wallace F. Bennett building, at 125 South State Street, occupies an important corner at...
Salt Lake City looks to stop the Legislature from taking away its ability to make its streets safer
Members of Utah’s Senate leadership are in talks with Salt Lake City leaders over a bill that would temporarily strip the capital city of its ongoing efforts to build safer streets, as neighborhood groups mounted their own campaigns to fight the state encroachment....
Senate bill would send county tax money to Downtown revitalization effort
A bill that would allow Salt Lake County tax money to go toward the renovation of the Salt Palace Convention Center as part of ongoing efforts to keep the Delta Center in the capital city and revitalize a dead section of Downtown advanced out of Utah Senate committee...
The Hardware District starts to fill in: update in photos
If you haven’t visited the Hardware District in a while—located just past Downtown’s northwest edge—you might’ve missed its rapid transformation from an industrial warehouse zone into a hub of apartments and townhomes. The area is unique. Nestled between the West...












