A Utah House committee punted on two bills that its sponsor believes would help address the state’s ongoing housing shortage, despite support from the governor's office. The bills, HB 88 and HB 90, were presented to the Utah House Political Subdivisions Committee in a...
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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...
The days of inexpensive rent and housing may be forever gone from Utah’s capital, and even working through a backlog of policies may never bring it back. The balance between urban infill, historic preservation and housing affordability may be out of whack, and recent...
When CW Urban announced it would construct a new residential building across from Pioneer Park, one thing in particular stood out. It wasn’t necessarily its design, its unit count, its height or anything about the appearance that made it particularly noteworthy in a...
There’s no slowing the incoming residential tide in the Downtown area of Salt Lake City, with another project proposed on a small site of 400 East, two doors down from another. The aQui apartments would bring 60 new market-rate rental units to a 0.22-acre site just...
If you haven’t meandered through the new apartments between 400 West and the FrontRunner tracks recently, it may surprise you to visit the residential pocket that's been created where one didn’t exist five years ago. Space for thousands of residents has been built,...
Competition between the west side and Downtown for a full-time, year-round public market heated up last week. The Utah State Fairpark announced that they will run a May-to-August, four-days-a-week, food-centered market in and around their historic livestock...
With housing affordability and supply at low-enough levels to merit a “crisis,” policy-makers in many American cities are opening their zoning code to accessory dwelling units (ADUs). In Salt Lake City the code has loosened, yet low numbers show that significant...
A third-acre property in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Wells neighborhood has received a zoning change more typical for urban areas after the City Council approved a moderate-density development this week. The proposal rankled some neighbors, who suggested this portion of...
Perennially starved of tax revenue by the Utah Legislature, Utah Transit Authority (UTA) has had few options to generate income beyond the fare box. UTA’s somewhat-new TOD program is trying to change that. Approved by the Legislature, the strategy is to reap an...
Salt Lakers want their streets designed for people, not cars, and this is not an opinion piece. That’s the takeaway from a survey of about 1,200 respondents who emphatically said they want their streets designed to move all people, rather than primarily vehicles. In...