Just weeks after getting final approvals, work on adding more public transit in Salt Lake City is close to getting underway.
On Wednesday, the Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency applied for three demolition permits for buildings it owns in Sugar House, with addresses listed being 1095 E. Simpson Ave., 1085 E. Simpson Ave. and 2234 S. Highland Dr. One of the buildings slated for demolition is the former home of Salt Lake City Fire Department’s Station No. 3.
Each of the permits include “S-Line” in the description, and are meant to be torn down, in part, to make way for the latest extension of the Utah Transit Authority’s S-Line streetcar. Though the demolition work will tee up the streetcar extension, removing the buildings also serves another purpose, according to CRA spokesperson Tauni Barker.
“The demolition is necessary for the S-Line construction,” Barker said in a text message to Building Salt Lake. “However, there is a bit of a dual benefit as there will be an affordable housing component built in the future.”
Demolition on the three buildings is slated to take place in early May, according to the permits. Construction on the S-Line extension is expected to kick off around the same time, as city staff told members of the Salt Lake City Council that construction would start in May and last around 13 months.
The S-Line will extend from its current endpoint at McClelland Street to beyond Highland Drive, where a new station will be built on a surface parking lot just south of the Cinemark movie theater. The project is slated to cost over $43 million.
The Salt Lake Plaza Hotel, which is set to be closed in November and later demolished. Image supplied via Property Reserve
OTHER DEMOLITION PERMITS
Beyond the buildings in Sugar House slated for demolition, city permits indicate a handful of other buildings will likely be torn down in the near future.
As part of its plan to create a surface parking lot for the impending reopening of the Salt Lake Temple, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will soon begin tearing down the Plaza Hotel, located at 122 W. South Temple.
The LDS Church has already razed the hotel’s attached restaurant and parking garage, and a permit filed early last month now seeks to tear down the hotel itself. Demolition of the building could begin as early as May 18 and last until December, according to the demolition permit filed with Salt Lake City.
BSL previously reported that the church’s plans to turn the site into a surface parking lot likely wouldn’t be in line with city zoning code, which was updated shortly before the hotel demolition plans were announced last year.
Another potential demolition project is located at 155 S. 600 West, just west of The Gateway. A demolition permit filed in February sought to tear down the Centro Civico Mexicano building at that site to make way for a, “new 3 story mixed use commercial building with 1 sub-grade parking level below the building,” the permit says.
Since its filing, city documents show little progress has been made toward demolition. The initial application says the building was slated to begin demolition in March, though it doesn’t appear progress has been made.
In January, Zions Bank filed a demolition permit to raze a building at 37 W. 100 South, according to the permit. The building is described as a “three-story masonry” warehouse that has D-1 zoning.
Though the address on the permit appears to be a large building that fronts 100 South, it’s more likely the permit would be to demolish a three-story building behind the street-facing building. Since it was filed in late January, little progress appears to have been made on the building.
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