“These are Tear down dwellings that are necessary to build future apartment or condo buildings,” says the property listing for 419 East 100 South in Salt Lake City’s East Central neighborhood, just steps from Downtown. The announcement highlights 419 E 100 S, known as...
Do construction cranes equal weather vanes? If so, the breeze continues to grace Downtown Salt Lake City. In east Downtown, along east Broadway and 400 South, the projects keep coming, and it’s starting to look like climate, not just weather. DeWitt Apartments’...
In a city increasingly marked by concrete podium and wood-frame buildings, a new construction technique is coming to town that may help change the landscape. Mass timber is cheaper and less environmentally harmful than concrete and steel. Carbon dioxide emissions from...
Development-relevant actions by Salt Lake City government in March brought some welcome changes as well as news that several blossoms won't be seen until next year. Here's our review. March city council actions •Approved (unanimously) the Coachman’s restaurant...
As Salt Lake City looks to add density without losing existing housing units, the city council indicated last night that they are probably willing to sit on the Administration’s RMF-30 infill ordinance for another year. RMF zoning exists mainly on the city’s east...
In one of the city’s most in-demand neighborhoods - less than a mile from the University of Utah - local developers have applied to build a “Co-living Rooming House” and are willing to seek four separate approvals (two that will have to go to the city council) to get...
Last night the Salt Lake City Council deferred action on two land-use items we've been following. The first, a zoning petition from a developer to raise heights in a portion of the Depot District zoned Gateway Mixed Use (G-MU), was postponed, despite the council...
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...
In a proposal important to developers of small multi-family urban infill, planners from Salt Lake City proposed revisions to the RMF-30 zone to the city council this week. It’s the city’s most recent go at a new residential infill ordinance since pioneering...
Salt Lake City’s East Central neighborhood is known for its leafy streets, historic buildings, and horizontal mixed use. South Temple street, an ornamental ribbon sitting atop this gem of a neighborhood east of Downtown, hosts Salt Lake City’s grandest...
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission recommended approval last week for an upzone and master plan amendment in the heart of the 9th & 9th neighborhood for a 23-unit townhome and historic rehabilitation project. The commissioners’ 8-1 vote in favor of...
East Downtown will soon see new residential construction along the South Temple - 100 South corridor. At 25 South 300 East, Lotus Republic will add 80 market-rate apartments to what may already be the densest residential area in the state. The podium + 5 story...