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...
Salt Lake City’s old Fleet Block, in redevelopment limbo for well over a decade, may be finally beginning its transformation. In its first Budget Amendment of the year, the Salt Lake City Council is about to approve a request from the Department of Community and...
Music fans across Salt Lake City might breathe a sigh of relief upon hearing that while new development is coming to the block that surrounds beloved all-ages venue Kilby Court, the plan is to keep Kilby at the center. In 2022, a developer initially moved forward with...
The Granary District once felt like a brush fire ready to become one of the most bustling neighborhoods in Salt Lake City, with projects lining up to obtain entitlements and plans for a rush of new housing that promised to bring liveliness to the area. Some projects...
Five years after first unveiling their plans to turn a swath of largely vacant and underutilized land southwest of Downtown into a thriving new mixed-use district, Salt Lake City developers are putting the finishing touches on the Post District. On a recent sunny...
The Housing Authority of Salt Lake City and Giv Communities are proposing to double the size of a residential project that offers wrap-around services and deeply affordable housing to people transitioning out of homelessness. Opened in 2007, Sunrise Metro at 580 South...
The owner of the Fifth Ward meetinghouse near the Granary District has shared his plans to restore the building to its original form if he receives approval from the city. Skyler Baird, who created a nonprofit that bought the partially demolished structure, has...
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...
Salt Lake City has issued $40,200 in fines related to the illegal partial demolition of the historic Fifth Ward Meetinghouse in late March, Building Salt Lake has learned. The fines, which began accruing daily in response to the demolition on Easter Sunday, will...
For decades the city’s Redevelopment Agency has assembled parcels at the northeast corner of 300 West and 800 South, eventually putting together nearly two acres for what it hopes will become a signature mixed-use development for the Central 9th and Granary...
After finding success with the master planned development next door, the development team behind the Post District is moving forward with plans to expand the neighborhood on a similar scale with the development it calls the Silos. Named after the grain silos on the...
The Granary District, southwest of Downtown, has attracted significant housing, office, hospitality, and food + beverage investment in the last decade. What it hasn’t seen, however, is improvements in the public way. The Granary’s streets are some of the worst in the...