In recent years, the Wasatch Front has enjoyed the addition of commuter rail, light rail, and a streetcar. However, options are still limited for those wishing to travel beyond the Wasatch Front without a car. For the past decade, I’ve been researching how Utah...
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...
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....
The Salt Lake City Transportation Division is vetting with the public its new guidelines for city streets. If adopted by the city council, the “Street Typologies Guide" would have significant consequences for the city’s transportation and land-use design. What...
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...
After weeks of studying the idea, Salt Lake City followed other cities worldwide that have moved to give more space to people outside cars, conceding that when more people walk, our sidewalks don’t provide enough space. During the coronavirus pandemic, when Salt...
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...
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...
Salt Lake Crossing, a 300 micro-unit and studio rental building in the Hardware District, is being proposed by the area’s master developer, SALT Development. The Salt Lake Hardware project continues its bold rise between the North Temple Bridge Trax/FrontRunner stop...
Salt Lake City has already shown that increased convenience from an expanded bus network on three east-west routes can increase ridership. Now it wants to know if residents want free rides to go with it. Residents have a few more days to speak their minds about...