Southwest of Downtown Salt Lake City, former industrial blocks are transforming into places people can live, work, and play. Despite major challenges like 10-acre blocks, hostile streets, and lack of infrastructure, formerly scattered developments are starting to knit...
This story has been made free for all readers. If you would like to help support BSL's independent journalism, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. The bill that took away Salt Lake City’s ability to control many of its own streets stemmed from shadowy...
Not long after creating a new neighborhood, one of Salt Lake City’s most noteworthy recent developments has shored up its future with new financing. Walker & Dunlop, one of the largest commercial real estate finance firms in the country, announced earlier...
Salt Lake City Council members continue to tweak the city's proposed overhaul of its mixed-use zoning code, and they appear poised to vote on the ordinance in the coming days. Council members approved a handful of straw polls during a work session Tuesday afternoon,...
We take a tour through Downtown, east and west, and south into the Granary to show you construction progress on projects that are helping reshape the city. Have a look. Astra Tower - 89 East 200 South New mural on the west parking structure face by Miles Toland and...
A plan to add over 100 new, deeply affordable housing units gained city approval recently, as the plan would add the affordable units onto an existing building in the north Granary District. During an April 23 meeting, members of the Salt Lake City Planning...
The Granary continues to attract attention from national developers, as Seattle’s Lake Union Partners will be expanding to the west of its Evo Granary Campus at 700 South and 400 West. A residential building at 450 W 700 S that will front the new 1000-stall parking...
The Fleet Block, looking west into the Granary, first week of April, 2025. Photo by Dave Iltis Salt Lake City is currently accepting pitches for the future of the Fleet Block — and the city is looking for “bold” ideas for what the future could hold for the 10 acre...
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...
After years of delay, Salt Lake City is moving forward with its long-awaited plan of redeveloping the 8.75-acre property southwest of Downtown known as the Fleet Block. With the erection of a construction fence and arrival of excavators, wrecking crews began the...
Progress on the Post District would continue to move west (or the Granary would progress north), as the latest step in The Silos development won a favorable recommendation from the Salt Lake City Planning Commission on Wednesday. The latest step in the project would...
