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...
It’s been a long time coming, but the campaign working to open a hyper-local, full-service grocery store in the Salt Lake area is finally talking about a location. The Wasatch Cooperative Market board is asking its members to share their thoughts as it negotiates with...
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall reported on her administration’s first-year progress and highlighted its plan for 2021 in her state of the city speech this week. Housing and development were major components of the mayor's 36-minute statement. She insisted that...
As Salt Lake Design Week 2020 (Oct 5-9) capped off its first all-virtual edition, a panel of non-designers hosted by Lloyd Architects reflected on how design is built into their businesses and the communities they serve - and how they've adjusted to constantly...
As it continues to rise on 400 South adjacent to Library Square and the Public Safety Building, The Exchange Project is many things. The end-cap to Salt Lake City’s civic campus. Food service business incubator. Co-working space. Mixed-use and mixed-income....
Besides responding to COVID, earthquakes, and anti-police protests in her first six months in office, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is also launching several pilot innovations in public space that have the potential to transform the city. The city’s “Stay safe,...
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...
A lot of development is current and coming to Salt Lake City's Central 9th neighborhood. Home to the 900 South TRAX station, numerous food + beverage options, and instant access to Downtown, Central 9th's advantages are many. Those assets - and the city's form-based...
Salt Lake City could have landed it: One of the elusive technology company headquarters that are congregating in the sprawl of Lehi’s Silicon Slopes. All the developer needed was permission to build high enough to suit the company’s desires, and a tech company would...
Ivory Development and the Ivory Foundation have walked away from a deal to purchase the land west of 2200 West and north of the Salt Lake City airport from the Swaner family. Ivory was hoping to build a “Research Park West” on the 440-acre parcel, which surrounds...
The reason more affordable housing isn’t being built is due to scarcity of investment capital, not scarcity of demand or return, say some of Salt Lake’s premier affordable housing developers. Without more affordable housing we are creating a future where only the...
Pollution hung thick in Salt Lake County’s air this week, as the region experiences its worst inversion of the season. So we thought we'd look at what causes smog in the region. Vehicles — including cars, trucks, planes and trains — are the largest single contributor...