The Montaire North student housing complex in Sugar House, looking southwest, in June 2025. Photo by Devin Zander | Building Salt Lake While multi-family residential real estate in Salt Lake City continues to lag, one aspect of the market seems to be going vertical. ...
College students in Salt Lake City will have a new place to call home in two years as developer Cole West broke ground on a new development in the East Central neighborhood on Thursday. Construction on Chapter SLC at the site of the old Office Max at 900 E. 400 S. is...
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...
A proposed development in East Central at the old Office Max corner at 900 East and 400 South is moving forward after winning unanimous city approval on Wednesday evening. The Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted 7-0 to approve the design review of the...
A home in an historic Salt Lake City neighborhood could be torn down to make way for new mixed-use development, according to a proposal submitted to the city. The 1912 building is located on the border of the business district near the historic entry to the...
Despite positive absorption and dipping vacancy rates, there’s still an eerie quiet among office developers in the Salt Lake City region. Not so long ago, three developers Downtown had luxury office towers in their site plans. Two of those projects are dead, while the...
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Developers want to cater a massive redevelopment in Salt Lake City's East Central neighborhood to college students, hoping that market will occupy an apartment complex consisting of nearly two acres of land along 400 South. In total, the complex could hold 696 beds if...
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This is an opinion piece submitted by Matthew Givens. If you’re interested in submitting an op-ed to Building Salt Lake, email info@buildingsaltlake.com. Sign up to get our free emails in your inbox. A decade ago, as I worked through my...
Changes may be coming to Salt Lake City’s paid parking policies. City leaders agreed that parking should cost more, and additional neighborhoods should be subject to paid parking. Council members made it clear Tuesday that they might overhaul city parking policies...
New construction in one of Salt Lake City’s mixed-use historic districts is about to get under way on a for-sale, four-unit project at 153 S 1300 E. Cole West (formerly CW Urban), a BSL advertiser, has secured permits and is beginning construction on TheROW, to be...
The LDS University Ward building at 160 S. University Avenue is undergoing a conversion to residential use that we first reported on in May. It’s almost finished, and we were able to peek inside just this week. The church dates from 1924, and sits at the foot of...