Heard faintly over the last few months, it’s not a siren song, but the sound of bubbles of a red herring: at long last, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates. The Fed raised interest rates quickly in 2022 and 2023 in an effort to curb inflation, which...
East Bench
Has City Hall found the key to unlock affordability in single-family zones?
Seeking to increase the supply of housing in the city’s current footprint, the City Council has recently approved, on single-family-detached R-1 zoning, density bonuses for providing affordable homes or reusing an existing primary structure. In addition, it has...
Residents gear up to battle proposed rezone in Emigration Canyon
Building Salt Lake is the leading source of commercial real estate news in Utah. Sign up to get our free emails in your inbox. Get access to the site’s paid features by becoming a Member today. The Salt Lake City Planning Commission is set to...
Salt Lake City executive lists sprawling Federal Heights mansion for sale for $11.9M
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Salt Lake City is setting the stage to debate changes to its exclusive single-family zoning
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How exclusionary zoning created Salt Lake City (and how policymakers are responding)
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Trends 2024 – what we’ll be watching in the new year
2023 brought the end of the apartment boom, pretty much everywhere. Is the Salt Lake City market going to weather the storm? Are those long-term growth predications still accurate? Keep your clicks here. We’ll be watching these trends and others in 2024. Declining...
Planning Commission supports new historic district neighboring one they just voted against
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REGISTER NOW: BSL Events to host Missing Middle Housing discussion and tour
Fresh off a successful kickoff event, Building Salt Lake is preparing to host an informational session and tour that's focused on a bygone and misunderstood type of housing known as Missing Middle Housing. Our Missing Middle Housing Discussion and Tour will focus on...
Boy Scouts’ building on Foothill to be demolished as LDS Church reshapes its 33 acres adjacent to the U.
Salt Lakers used to passing the unique two-story modernist home of the Boy Scouts of America at 525 Foothill Drive will soon be looking at a vacant lot. The three-pronged building, built in 1970, was vacated by the Boy Scouts’ Great Salt Lake Council in early 2020....
City Council moving closer to final decision on big expansion of shared housing
Salt Lake City could see a return of dorm-style housing with shared living space among renters from different families in more neighborhoods around the city under a change that's up for final comment this week. The updated ordinance would effectively rebrand what has...
Where affordable housing is and isn’t being built in Salt Lake City
Developers are adding thousands of badly needed affordable housing units to Salt Lake City, but not in every neighborhood, and not only on the west side. New multi-family developments that are either partially or entirely affordable to people earning less than the...












