Developers propose new apartments next to Salt Lake City’s Ballpark stadium
The area surrounding Smith’s Ballpark could welcome a new, seven-story residential building in an area that’s attracting attention from developers if not from policymakers. Tradition Pointe would add 78 studio and one-bedroom units in an area near a transit station that’s still zoned commercial. It would continue to add people into a neighborhood that needs […]
North Temple residential growth keeps coming – here are 2 new projects
Two new residential projects have joined the growing train of proposed and active construction along the North Temple transit corridor in Salt Lake City. It was only a year ago that we reported the disappointment expressed by policymakers and mayoral candidates on the slow development progress along the corridor. With the continued flow of new […]
Council approves rezone for Southeast Market building. So what’s next for the popular business?
The City Council has approved a zoning change to a parcel on the 900 South corridor that could make way for a development and an uncertain fate of a popular Asian market in the existing building. The change itself is wonky: The land the market sat on had two separate zoning types, and the developer […]
City Council presses ‘pause’ on RMF-30 rewrite and G-MU spot-zone height increase
Last night the Salt Lake City Council deferred action on two land-use items we’ve been following. The first, a zoning petition from a developer to raise heights in a portion of the Depot District zoned Gateway Mixed Use (G-MU), was postponed, despite the council having closed the public hearing and scheduled it for action. The […]
Zoning change looking to spur ‘missing middle’ housing will make housing crisis worse, say advocates
For decades, the zoning requirements in the city’s RMF-30 zone – large setbacks, minimums for lot width and lot area per unit – made cost-per-unit for new construction difficult to pencil. Developers couldn’t build enough units on a property to justify removing a century-old home that might have multiple rental units in it. The building […]
Rocky Mountain Power offers up its 100-acre campus for redevelopment
A massive change is coming to Salt Lake City’s west side. Rocky Mountain Power recently moved to offer its sprawling, 100-acre campus in Poplar Grove up for redevelopment, creating a once in a lifetime opportunity to bring life to an area that’s been looking for transformative projects. The utility, which has operated on the site […]
“Now we’re in a place where design matters more” – business owners talk about community + design in the COVID era
As Salt Lake Design Week 2020 (Oct 5-9) capped off its first all-virtual edition, a panel of non-designers hosted by Lloyd Architects reflected on how design is built into their businesses and the communities they serve – and how they’ve adjusted to constantly changing COVID realities. The term “creating community” has been around architecture and […]
Developer will build 170 rental units on 12 acres along the Jordan River in Salt Lake City’s Poplar Grove neighborhood
CW Urban is planning another residential development among its rapid build-out of mid-density townhomes in Salt Lake City. This one, called The Yard, would exist on the largest footprint and the farthest west of the Centerville-based developer’s projects in the city. This time, the project would be a rental project, rather than the hundreds of […]
Depot District mixed-use project looks to bridge past and present in a rapidly changing neighborhood
Affordable housing construction across the street. Micro-apartments coming on the corner. New senior housing neighbor on the block about to get its ribbon cut. Gateway Mall mixed-use just steps away. The stage is set in the Depot District for the CINQ, dbUrban and Dwell Design Studio’s seven-story, 203 unit market-rate project at 530 West 200 […]
