Five years after Domain Companies released its plans for a mixed-use tower and hotel near the heart of Downtown, the company appears to be reactivating the project and preparing to build.
Excavation crews were present Tuesday morning at the site near 370 S. West Temple loading trucks with dirt on the site, with more extensive excavation expected next week.
The movement is a signal that Domain is dusting off its plans for a 28-story mixed-use residential tower and adjacent 10-story hotel.
Domain declined to comment about any updates to the timeline or design of its project, though the project has technically remained active in permitting and would likely not be significantly altered from previously approved designs.
Under a proposal that was approved under the city’s design review process, Domain plans to build a 10-story, 209-room hotel on the north end of the site fronting West Temple. The hotel structure would be just shy of 129 feet and would include a rooftop bar, ground-floor restaurant and other amenity spaces. It would include 123 parking stalls.
The project rendered from the southwest. Courtesy Solomon Cordwell Buenz Architecture.
The residential tower, fronting both 400 South and West Temple, would max out just shy of 278 feet and include 367 apartments and 291 parking stalls. Various planning documents and permit sets list different sizes for the tower, ranging from 25-28 stories.
The residential tower, which Domain currently lists under the name Soren on its website, would also include 6,400 square feet of retail space, according to the plans.
Domain has said the hotel would cost $109 million and pegged the tower at $164 million.
Domain was part of the group that developed the Mya and Avia apartments on 400 South near Library Square in 2018.
Domain initially requested a building permit for the residential tower in November 2021. Six months later, it requested the permit to build the hotel. Neither has received a full permit approval, though both have slowly continued through the process since then.
Domain also requested and received a zoning verification letter late last month, a process that certifies a property’s zoning and compliance with existing ordinances.
While projects that have received design review approval typically have a timeline to start construction, Domain’s project has technically remained open in permitting.
“The Design Review is still applicable because the building permit is still open,” planning manager Kelsey Lindquist said.
Lindquist deferred questions about any potential limits on excavation work before building permits are secured to the city’s Building Services division, which didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The project originally anticipated a two-year construction timeline, with completion on the hotel initially slated for the end of last year and the tower sometime this year.
If Domain received permits early this year, it could put completion at around late 2028 or early 2029.
0 Comments