Design-rich density coming to east Downtown SLC – meet Masonic Temple Regius Flats
Salt Lake City’s East Central neighborhood is known for its leafy streets, historic buildings, and horizontal mixed use. South Temple street, an ornamental ribbon sitting atop this gem of a neighborhood east of Downtown, hosts Salt Lake City’s grandest historical mansions, including the Governor’s (Kearns’) Mansion, the Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine, and the Masonic […]
Developer looking to build affordable housing along 300 West loses out on project
A developer that had planned for a low-income housing development in Salt Lake City’s Ballpark neighborhood has dropped out after looking for city approval for its new building next to a TRAX station. A developer that had been looking for city approval to build alongside the TRAX station in an increasingly popular area along 2100 […]
Central 9th continues to expand its retail, restaurant, and housing options – and shows no signs of stopping
New development, big and small, continues to mark the sustained growth of the Central 9th neighborhood in Salt Lake City. Its form-based zoning, adopted in 2013, marked some blocks for transition and other for stability. An interesting neighborhood is taking shape around the 900 South Trax Station. There’s no denying the seedlings of the pedestrian-scaled […]
Developers are building a new millennial and Gen Z-focused social club in Salt Lake City
Move over Alta Club. Salt Lake City will soon become home to a new social club. But instead of catering to a membership of the wealthy, the Edison House is being marketed as a “home away from home” for younger residents and working professionals that are flocking into the capital city’s Downtown. While it may […]
SLC releases design guide for restaurants and bars to expand outdoors – whether they can afford to is another question
The Downtown Alliance hosted a webinar panel on outdoor dining during COVID this week, and Salt Lake City presented its first design guidelines for businesses expanding their premises into the public right of way due to the pandemic. Urban designers in the Planning Division released the document Tuesday, and it couldn’t come any sooner for […]
Planning commission approves upzone and master plan change at 9th & 9th to save old Telegraph Exchange building
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission recommended approval last week for an upzone and master plan amendment in the heart of the 9th & 9th neighborhood for a 23-unit townhome and historic rehabilitation project. The commissioners’ 8-1 vote in favor of Clearwater Homes’ planned development came in the face of opposition from neighbors and the […]
Here are the final eight flag designs that could be hanging at City Hall this fall
Capital city residents have a chance to do what few people witness in their lifetimes: adopt a new city flag that’s fit to fly in public. In Salt Lake City’s case, there’s nowhere to go but up. We have a first-look at the top eight flag designs, which the city is asking you to rate […]
80-unit east Downtown mixed-use residential project will add to SLC’s urban core
East Downtown will soon see new residential construction along the South Temple – 100 South corridor. At 25 South 300 East, Lotus Republic will add 80 market-rate apartments to what may already be the densest residential area in the state. The podium + 5 story mixed-use building will house 56 micro (460 sf) and 24 […]
Following the Road Home’s departure, Salt Lake City’s Depot District is taking off
Salt Lake City’s Depot District continues to attract residential developments in a rapid housing shift west of Downtown in the years after the state intervened, dispersing a market for street drugs and evicting the city’s main homeless shelter from the neighborhood. The area immediately surrounding The Road Home — which the state demolished before offering […]
