by Mike Christensen | Jul 10, 2023 | Opinion, Policy, Salt Lake City, Sugar House, UTA
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...
by Taylor Anderson | Dec 8, 2020 | Downtown, Guadalupe, Liberty Wells, Salt Lake City, Sugar House
Vocal neighbors largely concerned about fears over lack of parking didn’t sway a Planning Commission that on Wednesday approved two projects to add density to the Guadalupe and western Sugar House neighborhoods. The commission approved the Izzy South and Kozo House...
by Taylor Anderson | Aug 23, 2019 | Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake City
South Salt Lake proves the adage that transportation and land use are two sides of the same coin. The implementation of its master plan to build a “downtown” around a giant parking lot and along two auto-centric thoroughfares seems doomed to fall well short of...
by Luke Garrott | Jul 8, 2019 | Salt Lake City, Sugar House
S-Line at Main Street, South Salt Lake. Photo by Luke Garrott. Liberty Crossing townhomes between Main and State, along the S-Line. Photo by Luke Garrott. Liberty Crossing townhomes, South Salt Lake. Winco grocery to the left. Photo by Luke Garrott. Liberty Crossing...
by Isaac Riddle | Nov 28, 2017 | Developments, Proposed, Salt Lake City, Sugar House
In the nearly four years since the S-Line began service, most of the development spurred by the streetcar and greenway have been clustered at the east and west ends of the two-mile route in Sugar House and South Salt Lake. But that is changing as more residential...