The price that developers pay to connect to city utilities will nearly triple over the next two years in Salt Lake City. The City Council, following the recommendations of third-party studies voted this week to raise the costs to hook up to the city’s potable water...
Demand is catching up to supply in the Salt Lake County Industrial real estate market. And data centers are taking off. The last time we reported, developers had added significant supply to the market, causing bloated inventory to suppress rents while absorption...
Years of planning for a sweeping redevelopment effort in Draper could make way for vertical construction later this year. Horizontal construction at The Point — the state’s massive redevelopment effort of over 600 acres on the former Utah State Prison site — first...
During a glut of LIHTC projects offering studios and one-bedrooms, a wide coalition of partners opened a 150-unit affordable housing project in west Millcreek last month that offers a bevy of 3- and 4-bedroom apartments. The project, at 4101 S. Howick St., will offer...
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The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has released the final study update on the Point of the Mountain transit project. It marks the end of a seven-year effort to determine better transit connectivity between the Draper and Lehi geographic chokepoint, known...
Those in the market for a new home in Salt Lake County will likely see home prices hover around the same in the near future, though an interest rate decrease could be the mark that thousands of households are waiting for to buy that elusive first home. Those were...
2025 was a wait-and-see kind of year for CRE, and multifamily residential in particular. While investors see green in the medium- and long-term in Mountain West markets, the economic uncertainty vibes are likely to again dominate in 2026. Those two forces–steady...
They bring you the olds, we bring you the news. And this year, we had all kinds of scoops about the trends and developments that are shaping the future of the region, specifically in Salt Lake City. Building Salt Lake readers again showed a strong interest in the...
Looking south along the proposed corridor for the Point transit project. New UTA light rail vehicles might one day move up and down along the corridor. (Rendering) In a tense exchange during an Oct. 9 Mountainland Association of Governments (MAG) meeting, Utah...
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...
Development could soon be underway along the northern rim of Salt Lake County — if the Salt Lake City Council approves an ordinance to annex land into the city. City officials are inching closer toward a vote on the Northpoint annexation plan, which would add over...
The proverbial “canaries in the coal mine” for the construction industry, architects nationwide are reporting March as a third straight month of 2025 in the red. That’s part of a worrying trend of 27 out of 30 months since October 2022 of architectural firms...