Thousands of baseball fans will file into a brand new stadium in South Jordan today, eager to see the first glimpses of a new era of the Salt Lake Bees — one without Salt Lake City. Those same fans will be walking past active construction sites on the way into...
A new apartment building that would add hundreds of units to Fairpark near Capitol Hill scored a win Wednesday, as the Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted to approve the project. The project, located at 523 W. 200 North and named District North, won...
A new housing development in Lehi would add a number of apartment units along a transit route in growing Utah County. The development, called Alta Visa and located at 5222 N. Mountain Point Blvd., started construction earlier this month, according to a news release...
The latest round of apartment buildings along 300 North on the edge of Fairpark were pitched to Salt Lake City officials in recent weeks, as developers recently submitted plans for the fourth phase of the Citizens West apartments. Citizens West 4, located at 515...
A proposed transit station development near a TRAX Green Line stop now has a reduced footprint and fewer units, according to updated plans submitted to Salt Lake City. The proposed development, known as Aarhus, used to call for 20 market-rate studio apartment...
SALT LAKE CITY - In a significant move to modernize its TRAX light rail fleet, the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) has signed a contract with manufacturer Stadler US for the production of new light rail vehicles. The agreement, valued at $120 million, calls for the...
At the western edge of Downtown, UTA is getting closer to redeveloping the naked platform of a train station called Salt Lake Central. The transit agency’s long-term plans have for years included activating the multiple properties it owns in west Downtown,...
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This is an opinion piece written by Mike Christensen, executive director of the Utah Rail Passengers Association. Bottom line up front: passenger rail does not look to fare well under a second Trump presidency. Few new services will likely be implemented, and...
For decades, a corridor approximately 66 feet wide and two miles long sat relatively unused. Lying half in South Salt Lake and half in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood, the corridor initially played host to the railroad that once stretched between Salt Lake...
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...
Besides the Ballpark itself, is there a “there” there? This was the conundrum facing planning consultants brought together by Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC), Salt Lake City, and UTA, looking at the half-mile around the 1300 South Trax station, just south of...
In Central City, just southeast of Downtown, 1970s-vintage low-rise office buildings are transitioning to multi-family residential in a big way. Three projects along 400 East - one under construction and the other looking for a zoning change - add to a number of...