Utah Transit Authority’s long pursuit of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in Ogden from FrontRunner commuter rail to Weber State is finally coming to fruition. The line, with a dedicated bus-only lane for half […]
Salt Lake City planners are proposing a new ordinance they hope will lead to the creation of new micro-apartments with shared amenities that could help provide needed housing to people who can’t afford longer-term rentals. […]
Salt Lake City is booming. The city had 56 residential and mixed-use projects under construction in 2018 with another 42 projects in the permitting and planning stages. I’m hoping to turn over Building Salt Lake […]
In June of 2014, I launched Building Salt Lake (originally SL City News) with the purpose of promoting smart growth, complete streets and community engagement. Starting a news blog from the ground up isn’t easy and […]
Developer’s, Cottonwood Residential, plans to build to a large, block-long residential development in the Central City neighborhood failed to impress the Salt Lake City Planning Commission during a Wednesday’s commission meeting. In a 6-to-2 vote, […]
With a newly-adopted Transit Master Plan and an extra $25 million in revenue for next year, the Salt Lake City Council is almost ready to move forward with the first phase of proposed enhancements to the city’s […]
Another large residential project is coming to the growing residential cluster near North Temple and Redwood after the Salt Lake City Planning Commission approved with conditions a Planned Development request from developers, Henderson Development, to build two […]
Local developers, Giv Group have cleared the remaining administrative hurdles needed to build The Exchange, a large mixed-use, mixed-income development at the 300 East block of 400 South. On Wednesday, November 28, the Salt Lake […]
It’s been 17 years since The Gateway opened as a mixed-use retail center in Downtown’s western edge. Since then both the former retail center and its surrounding neighborhood have welcomed hundreds of new residential units, […]
The Central Ninth neighborhood has become one of the city’s biggest success stories in neighborhood revitalization. The neighborhood is attracting both public and private investment resulting in hundreds of new residential units and dozens of […]
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