Royal Wood Office Plaza, blight on west Downtown, being demolished
Cover photo courtesy Joshua Jonas Kent Jones on SLC District 4 Residents Facebook page.
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It wasn’t royal, or wood, and it’s coming down.
Royal Wood Office Plaza hosted a US post office for decades, and offered 162,564 SF of Class B office space as well as a 571-stall surface parking lot.
That street-front lot conspired to vacuum up urban energy between the Salt Palace convention center and the Gateway mall. Consuming nearly an entire block face on 200 South between 200 and 300 West, it was a glaring reminder of how dead Downtown could feel west of Main Street.
Phase 2 of the West Quarter is getting under way—replacing the parking lot and office building will be The Grid, a 16-story, 185-foot, 323-unit mixed-use structure that will provide 343 stalls in seven stories of structured parking.
The developers, The Ritchie Group, are also planning two towers, one likely a hotel, to the east of The Grid for the West Quarter’s Phase Three.
The Grid’s street presence will include 21,400 SF of retail space and be connected to the West Quarter’s now completed first phase by two new streets internal to the block that will be private with public easements.
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